Friedrich von Zeppelin

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Count Friedrich von Zeppelin on a painting from 1838

Friedrich Jerôme Wilhelm Karl Graf von Zeppelin (born November 29, 1807 in Ulm , † March 25, 1886 in Emmishofen ) was a German court official and entrepreneur.

Life

Count Friedrich von Zeppelin was the son of the Württemberg State Minister Ferdinand Ludwig von Zeppelin . He was princely court and government councilor in Hohenzollern-Hechingen and Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen . During his studies in 1825 he became a member of the fraternity / comment connection in Tübingen . In 1834 he held the position of upper court marshal in Sigmaringen .

Zeppelin who married Constance manufacturer's daughter Amélie Françoise Pauline Macaire d'Hogguèr (1816-1852). The couple initially lived in Sigmaringen, but moved to Constance around 1837. There, Friedrich von Zeppelin was involved in the cotton factory and the banking house of his father-in-law David Macaire d'Hogguèr (1775–1845) from Geneva since 1836 . At Christmas 1840 he gave the couple the Girsberg Castle in Emmishofen on the shores of Lake Constance, where the family lived from then on.

The couple's three children were:

  • Eugenie (born January 11, 1836; † June 8, 1911) ∞ Wilhelm Friedrich Karl von Gemmingen (born October 12, 1827; † January 6, 1920)
  • Ferdinand (July 8, 1838 - March 8, 1917), pioneer of airship travel ( Zeppelins ) ∞ Isabella von Wolff (* May 4, 1846 - February 2, 1922)
  • Eberhard (* May 22, 1842; † October 30, 1906) ∞ Sophie von Wolff (* September 20, 1840; † October 28, 1919)

literature

  • Nobility in transition. 200 years of mediation in Upper Swabia. Exhibition catalog. Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2006, page 355
  • Hermann Strauss: Gyrsberg Castle . In: Contributions to the local history of Kreuzlingen. Book IX, pp. 26-45. Kreuzlingen 1955.
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 391.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chronicle of the city of Hechingen. Vol. 1. 1980. S 337 Z 23ff
personal data
SURNAME Zeppelin, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zeppelin, Friedrich Jerôme Wilhelm Karl Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German court official and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1807
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH March 25, 1886
Place of death Emmishofen