Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen (1716–1778)

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Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen (born January 12, 1716 ; † 1778 ) was court marshal to the princes of Taxis , the bishops of Speyer and the margraves of Baden-Durlach and knight captain in the knightly canton of Neckar-Black Forest .

Life

He was a son of Johann Friedrich Karl von Gemmingen (1679-1739) and Maria Francisca von Riedheim († 1759) from the Steinegg line of the barons of Gemmingen . He studied from 1727 to 1733 at the University in Dillingen and then to 1735 in Innsbruck . He then entered the service of the Prince of Taxis, where he rose to court marshal . After the coronation of Charles VII , he left the princes of Taxis and married Maria von Ow in 1743. In 1744 he became court marshal in the service of Speyer, in 1752 he moved to the service of Baden as court marshal and privy councilor .

After the childless death of Karl Dietrich Anton von Gemmingen (1694–1745), the property in Steinegg fell to him . He supported the Neuhausen pastor Johann Georg Martin Rösner in reforming the local school system, donated 1,000 guilders for the establishment of his own pastoral office in Schellbronn and supported the construction of the new church that began in 1752. In 1761 he received the imperial notary Josef Kuen in the table room in Steinegg, where Kuen issued a certificate for an old stone from the chapel in Schellbronn, which was walled up again in 1752 when the church in Schellbronn was rebuilt with a Gemmingen coat of arms and the date 1134.

In 1762 Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen became the knight captain of the knight canton Neckar-Black Forest . He was also a knight of the Baden Order of Loyalty.

Johann Dietrich also brought the distantly related Maria Joseph Heinrich Dionysius von Gemmingen (1714–1796) to his home in Steinegg. Dionys' fortune had been embezzled by a guardian, later Dionys was arrested for assault in Pforzheim and then tried unsuccessfully to earn a living on the Neuhausen parish. Dionys was fed on Steinegg until his death in 1796 and his descendants later came into the possession of the castle after Johann Dietrich's son Franz died without male descendants.

family

Johann Dietrich von Gemmingen was married to Maria von Ow († 1775).

Progeny:

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 335.
  • Heinrich Leicht: Neuhausen under Gemmingsch rule , in: Community Neuhausen (Hrsg.): Neuhausen once and now. Volume I , Horb 2001, pp. 52-62.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johann Fidel Anton at ancestry.com
personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen, Johann Dietrich von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Court marshal to the princes of Taxis, the bishops of Speyer and the margraves of Baden-Durlach
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1716
DATE OF DEATH 1778