Ernst von Gemmingen-Hornberg (officer)

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Ernst Oskar Adolf Wilhelm Franz von Gemmingen-Hornberg (born August 15, 1851 in Babstadt ; † January 5, 1928 in Baden-Baden ) was an officer in Württemberg .

Life

Gravestones of Ernst von Gemmingen-Hornberg and his wife in the Babstadt cemetery

He was a son of the Babstadt landlord Hermann von Gemmingen (1820-1891) and Pauline Maximiliane Philippine von Ellrichshausen (1825-1865) and attended grammar schools in Heilbronn and Eßlingen am Neckar . In 1869 he resigned as an officer candidate in the 7th Infantry Regiment of the Württemberg Army in Stuttgart one, joined in the same year as a cadet for the 8th Infantry Regiment and attended the Military Academy in Ludwigsburg . In 1870 he became a lieutenant in the 5th Infantry Regiment , with whom he participated in the war against France in the battles at Wörth , Sedan , Champigny, Bontancourt and Villiers in 1870/71 . For his service in one of the battles at Champigny, he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of Military Merit. Associated with this was an annual preamble . Later he received the Iron Cross and the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus III. Class. In 1874 he became Premier Lieutenant and in 1879 came to the Grenadier Regiment "Queen Olga" (1st Württembergisches) No. 119 in Stuttgart. In 1882 he was captain and company commander in the 4th Infantry Regiment No. 122 in Heilbronn, and in 1892 he was a major and battalion commander in the Queen Olga Grenadier Regiment in Stuttgart.

From 1909 to 1918 Ernst von Gemmingen-Hornberg was a member of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly as a representative of the manorial nobility below the Murg .

At the beginning he took an active part in the First World War , but after a fall he was no longer fit for military service, whereupon he took over the management of the Johanniter hospital in Stuttgart. After the war he lived in Babstadt Castle . There he became the chronicler of his family, who lost most of their remaining aristocratic rights with the end of the monarchy. When the Familienfideikommisse were dissolved in 1922 , he transferred the former Babstadt condominium , which consisted of him and his brothers Wilhelm (1854–1940), Karl (1857–1935) and Friedrich (1860–1924), into a joint trading company under civil law. Wilhelm, who emigrated to America, waived his share in favor of his brothers and nephews in 1925 in exchange for an annuity .

He was buried in Babstadt , where his grave and that of his wife have been preserved.

family

He was married to Annie Kaupe (1858-1904) from February 22, 1883. The marriage came from the son Eberhard (1883–1952).

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Heidelberg 1895, pp. 307-308.
  • Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen. Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Adels Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966.
  • Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26. Elztal 1991.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Bauer, Bernhard Gißler: The members of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly from 1819–1912. Fidelitas, Karlsruhe 1913, 5th edition, p. 85.
  2. ^ Digital collection of Baden state parliament protocols at the Badische Landesbibliothek. List of members of both chambers
  3. ↑ Heitland 1991, pp. 160-161.
  4. ↑ Heitland 1991, p. 159.
personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen-Hornberg, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gemmingen-Hornberg, Ernst Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Wuerttemberg officer
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Babstadt
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 1928
Place of death Baden-Baden