Franz Karl Eduard von Wimpffen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Franz Karl Eduard von Wimpffen (born January 2, 1776 in Stuttgart , † December 7, 1842 in Graz ) was a major general in Württemberg and was raised to the rank of count by Emperor Franz II on April 8, 1797.

Life

Franz Karl Eduard von Wimpffen was the son of General Franz Ludwig Wimpffen (1732-1800), Freiherr von Wimpffen-Berneburg and Marie Magdalena Kunigunde Goy (born July 31, 1743 in Frankfurt am Main ; † January 24, 1820 ibid), who Daughter of the Hesse-Darmstadt court counselor and envoy to the Upper Rhine District Convention in Frankfurt , Christian Friedrich Goy (1692–1748).

All that is known about von Wimpfen is that he began his military service in the Swiss bodyguard of the Electoral Hessian Army , but that he resigned from the military after its dissolution. Subsequently, he was resident in Austria and Silesia, in the Bohemian Groß Kuntschitz , in the Lower Austrian Wallsee and most recently in Kainbach near Graz and was awarded the Inkolat there . On June 8, 1797 he was raised to the rank of count in Vienna . The publicly available sources do not provide any information about how he got back to Württemberg and to his officer rank.

Franz von Wimpffen's first marriage since 1796 was with Viktoria Princess von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1772-1817), the widow of Karl Landgrave von Hessen-Philippsthal, a son of Landgrave Wilhelm , and daughter of Prince Franz Adolf von Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym . After her death in 1818 he married Pauline Freiin von Marschall (1787–1869), daughter of Jacob Robert Freiherr von Marschall and Johanna Henriette Rapedius von Berg.

The Counts of Wimpffen descend from Franz . His children were among others

from first marriage:

  1. Count Franz Emil Lorenz Wimpffen (1797–1870), Imperial and Royal Privy Councilor and General Feldzeugmeister , on Kainberg, Reitau, Eichberg etc., married in 1825 to Marianne Freiin von Eskeles (1802–1862)
  2. Count Gustav Adolf Felix Wimpffen (1803–1880), married to Pauline von Wimpffen

from second marriage:

  1. Mathilde Henriette, b. Countess von Wimpffen (* 1819), married to Joseph Ludwig Christoph Reichlin von Meldegg
  2. Count Felix Wimpffen (1827–1882), Austro-Hungarian diplomat, married to Margarethe Countess von Lynar

A year before his death, he acquired Kainberg Castle , which is still owned by the Wimpffen family today.

literature

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ^ "Goy, Christian Friedrich". Hessian biography. (As of March 14, 2010). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).
personal data
SURNAME Wimpffen, Franz Karl Eduard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg major general
DATE OF BIRTH January 2, 1776
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1842
Place of death Graz