Joachim Eberhard von Gemmingen

Joachim Eberhard von Gemmingen (born April 20, 1893 in Stuttgart , † October 18, 1967 in Munich ) was the successor of Ernst A. Lehmann in the First World War , in command of the Zeppelin LZ 98 . From the late 1920s he made a technical civil servant career in the military. Most recently he was government building director. He was the husband of the children's book author Johanne von Gemmingen (1901-2001).

Life

He came from the 2nd branch (Bonfeld) of the II line (Gemmingen and Guttenberg) of the Barons of Gemmingen and was the second son of the Württemberg State Councilor Karl von Gemmingen (1861-1953) and Hermine von Landbeck (1865-1931).

Gemmingen attended school in Stuttgart and then the cadet institute in Berlin, where he passed the ensign examination in 1910 and the officer examination in 1911. On March 2, 1911 he became a lieutenant in the Dragoon Regiment King No. 26, with whom he initially also took part in the First World War.

He was a great-nephew of Count Zeppelin and joined the airship school command in 1916, where he was promoted to first lieutenant. At the LZ 98 airship command, he became the commandant of Airship Replacement Division 2 and in February 1917 took over command from Ernst A. Lehmann . However, LZ 98 was still dismantled in 1917, after which Gemmingen returned to its old regiment.

After the end of the war, he graduated from high school, trained as a mechanical engineer at Daimler-Benz in Stuttgart and then studied at the Technical University, which he graduated with a mechanical engineering diploma. After a long period of unemployment and various activities, he came to the army technical school in Ulm in 1928 as a state civil servant and troop teacher, where he became a trade school councilor in 1930. After he was transferred to Dresden in 1933, he was dismissed from the army technical school in 1935 in order to be accepted as a Reich official in the higher technical service of the Wehrmacht. In 1935 he became senior government building officer, in 1939 lieutenant colonel (engineer) and in 1942 colonel (engineer). After the end of the war he was interned and returned to Stuttgart in 1946.

family

His first marriage was to Marianne von Palm (1889–1977). That marriage, which ended in divorce in 1930, had four children, three of whom reached adulthood. In October 1932 he married Johanne Petershagen (1901-2001), with whom he had another daughter. This marriage was not happy either and the couple separated. Johanne lived in Ulm, Joachim moved to Munich, where he died in 1967.

Since son Volker died in childhood in 1928 and son Arndt died as a young officer in World War II in 1941 and Joachim's brother Hans had only one daughter and his brother Max, who had fallen young in 1916, had no children, Joachim von Gemmingen, the third house of the Bonfeld branch , died Barons of Gemmingen-Guttenberg in the male line.

Descendants from the first marriage:

• Arndt Wilhelm Ernst (1915–1941) ⚭ Magdalena Huber (1914–1987)
• Klara Maria (1916–?)
• Volker (1918–1928)
• Sigrun Helene (1920–2003) ⚭ Helmut Beck (1919–2001)

Descendants from the second marriage:

• Kristin (* 1938) ⚭ Werner Kleinmann (* 1937)

literature

• Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen . Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966, p. 148.
• Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen - continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 . Gemmingenscher Familienverband eV 1991, pp. 116–118.