Hans Weiprecht of Gemmingen
Hans Weiprecht von Gemmingen (born November 24, 1723 , † January 19, 1781 in Darmstadt ) was landlord in Franconian-Crumbach , Hesse-Darmstadt and Hanover privy councilor and knight councilor of the knightly canton of Odenwald .
Life
He was a son of the Hesse-Darmstadt district president Ernst Ludwig von Gemmingen (1685–1743) and Dorothea Barbara von Utterodt († 1769). He was "of a weak physique and crooked stature", but intelligent and studied in Giessen, Göttingen, Halle and Leipzig. He then spent a time in Wetzlar at the Imperial Court of Justice and then traveled to England, Holland and France, where he gained further knowledge of political science. In 1747, like his father, he entered the Hesse-Darmstadt service, where he was promoted to the position of privy councilor before leaving the Hessian service in 1768. In 1771 he joined Kurhannoversche services, where his brother Ludwig Eberhard (1719–1782) was Minister of State. There, too, he was a privy councilor. As a council of knights, he was also a member of the knightly canton of Odenwald due to his property in Franconian-Crumbach.
In January 1781 he apparently made himself well on the journey to Darmstadt, where he suddenly died of an "internal ulcer".
Since his only son Ludwig Weiprecht died in 1763 at the age of six, Hans Weiprecht left behind his widow only one daughter. His brother Ludwig Eberhard remained unmarried, which meant that the older Franconian-Crumbach line of the Barons of Gemmingen was dying out. In his will, drawn up in 1781, Ludwig Eberhard favored Hans Weiprecht's daughter Dorothea as a universal heir and died in 1782. Dorothea was initially under the guardianship of her mother, who sold the Hochberg estate and acquired Lehrensteinsfeld for it . In 1783 a family entourage was established.
family
From 1761 he was married to Maria Charlotte Ernestine Schenk von Schmidburg (1724–1794), widow of Karl Ludwig von Gemmingen (1700–1752) zu Hochberg.
Progeny:
- Ludwig Weiprecht (1763–1769), died young of peeling
- Johanna Christiana Luise Dorothea (* 1762) ⚭ Franz Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1747–1814)
Individual evidence
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 262–263.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gemmingen, Hans Weiprecht from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Landlord in Franconian Crumbach, Hanoverian privy councilor and knight council of the knightly canton of Odenwald |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 24, 1723 |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 9, 1781 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |