Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm

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Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm and his wife Pauline, double portrait by Salvador Martínez Cubells (1890), today in the German Historical Museum

Baron Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm (until 1888: Ferdinand Eduard Stumm; born July 12, 1843 in Neunkirchen (Saar) , †  May 10, 1925 in Locarno ) was a Prussian and German diplomat .

Life

Stumm came from the industrial family Stumm , who had bought the Neunkircher Hütte and shares in other ironworks in the Saar area on March 22, 1806 . While his older brother Carl Ferdinand Stumm (nickname Karl) took over the management of the iron works, Ferdinand Eduard (nickname Ferdinand) profited as a silent partner in the income of the family business. On May 5, 1888, he was ennobled. In 1908 he was one of the 100 richest Prussians and owned the two manors of Holzhausen (Kirchhain district, Hesse) with 700 ha and Rohlstorf (Segeberg district, Schleswig-Holstein) with 1500 ha.

Ferdinand took part in the campaigns against Denmark (1864) and Austria (1866) as an officer, was attached to the Prussian legation in Florence in 1867, took part in the British campaign in Abyssinia in 1868 and worked in the Foreign Office in Berlin in 1869. After taking part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71, he was the Prussian chargé d'affaires at the Holy See in 1871 and later on the German missions in Paris, Munich, Washington, Brussels, Petersburg and London as second and first secretary. In 1883 he was appointed Prussian envoy in Darmstadt , in 1885 imperial envoy in Copenhagen , in 1887 envoy, later ambassador in Madrid . In 1892 he was put up for disposition and was appointed Real Privy Councilor.

In 1903 he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the Gebrüder Stumm GmbH.

family

He married Baroness Pauline von Hoffmann in Fulda on June 28, 1879 (* August 12, 1858, † October 9, 1950). The couple had several children including:

  • Ferdinand Carl (born June 29, 1880; † 1954) German diplomat, industrialist
  • Maria (* April 21, 1882; † 1954) ⚭ May 18, 1911 Paul Hermann Karl Hubert von Hatzfeldt (1867–1941), 2nd Prince of Hatzfeldt
  • Herbert (born June 16, 1885)
  • Friedrich Wilhelm (born May 14, 1888)

Rauischholzhausen Castle

Rauischholzhausen Castle, the castle pond in the foreground

In 1873 Ferdinand Stumm, at that time counselor at the German embassy in Petersburg, bought the property of Messrs. Rau von Holzhausen in Hesse (1900 Hessian fields). The 500 year old family history of Rau von Holzhausen came to an end with the sale.

After taking over the property, building activity began in Holzhausen. First of all, the old moated castle, the adjoining farm yard and the tithe barn were demolished. The handsome Rauischholzhausen Castle was built on the hill behind, and a farmyard was built in its vicinity. In the years that followed, Stumm and his wife built several charitable buildings such as a church, possibly a parish hall, a dairy and an old people's home. In his will he designated one million gold marks as bequests and pensions for the staff, which was also implemented by the heirs. His grave is in the family cemetery of the Gut Rohlstorf estate acquired for his second son Herbert von Stumm . His first-born son Ferdinand Carl von Stumm inherited the property in Rauischholzhausen ; he was buried in 1954 next to the church donated by his father in the family cemetery founded by the von Rau family.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kurt Pritzkoleit: Who Owns Germany? , Kurt Desch Verlag, 1957, p. 69, p. 112
  2. ↑ Stumm, Ferdinand, Freiherr von . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894–1896, Volume 15, p. 459 (digitized version with wrong year of birth 1813; note facsimile).
  3. ↑ Five-Quarter Century Neunkircher Eisenwerk and the Stumm brothers . Mannheim 1935, p. 56
  4. ↑ Chris Nees: Rauischholzhausen Castle , Norderstedt 2010, ISBN 978-3-8370-9917-1 , p. 31
  5. ^ A b Philipp von Stumm: Family tree of the Stumm family, 2013, unpublished

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personal data
SURNAME Mute, Ferdinand Eduard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stumm-Holzhausen, Ferdinand Eduard Freiherr von; Stumm, Ferdinand Eduard (name until 1888)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Neunkirchen (Saar)
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 1925
Place of death Locarno