Friedrich Casimir von Gemmingen

Friedrich Casimir von Gemmingen (born October 22, 1694 at Guttenberg Castle ; † June 25, 1744 in Wetzlar ) was a Brandenburg-Ansbach Chamberlain and Councilor and Assessor of the Franconian Reich Circle at the Reich Chamber Court in Wetzlar.

Life

He was the son of Baden-Durlach's chamberlain and head stable master Friedrich Christoph von Gemmingen (1670–1702) and Benedikta Helena von Gemmingen (1674–1746). His tutor was the later Württemberg consistorial advisor Johann Caspar Malsch . In 1708 he entered the Princely School in Halle, from 1714 he studied in Halle and Gießen. He then completed a cavalier tour through Holland, England and France until 1719 . Then he visited the imperial, the Electoral Mainz , the Electoral Palatinate , the Electoral Hanover and the Württemberg courts. In 1731 he became a chamberlain and councilor at the court of Brandenburg-Ansbach . From 1740 he was an envoy of the Franconian Reich Circle Assessor at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar, where he died of a feverish cold and was also buried.

His wife raised the children in Heilbronn and moved in 1763 to her son Karl Friedrich Reinhard von Gemmingen in Ansbach , where she died in 1783.

family

From 1748 he was married to Eleonore Charlotte von Woellwarth (1718–1783), who had been educated at Guttenberg Castle after the early death of her mother. The couple founded the 1st branch (Bonfeld Oberschloss) within the 2nd branch (Bonfeld) of the 2nd line (Gemmingen, Guttenberg) of the Barons of Gemmingen .

Progeny:

• Henriette Sophia (* 1740) ∞ Frh. Von Fleckenbühl called Bürgel
• Karoline Benedicta (1741–1806), canoness in Bassum
• Karl Friedrich Reinhard (1739–1822) ∞ Philippine Magdalene von Woellwarth (1750–1825)

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 106f.