Johann Georg von Sontheim

Lieutenant General
Graf Sontheim

Johann Georg Graf von Sontheim (born April 26, 1790 in Mömpelgard , † December 14, 1860 in Ulm ) was a Lieutenant General and Minister of War of the Kingdom of Württemberg .

Life

Wurttemberg bastard coat of arms of Count Sontheim in the register of arms of the entire nobility in the Kingdom of Würtemberg (1833)

origin

Johann Georg von Sontheim was an illegitimate son of the ruling Duke Friedrich Eugen von Württemberg and Anne Clementine Claremantrand. The offspring of the deceased Duke, who was raised under the name of Sontheim and accepted into the cadet institute , was legitimized on January 24, 1807 by his half-brother King Friedrich I and appointed Count of Sontheim, which was a subordinate title of their common father. His heirs and descendants are addressed as highborn . As early as 1448, the House of Württemberg exercised state rule in Sontheim , which was always part of the Heidenheim office. At the same time, King Friedrich I assured his half-brother and his heirs to the royal county of Limpurg-Sontheim an irrevocable capital of 40,000 florins with 5% interest. Also the unequally married older brother of King Friedrich, Heinrich Friedrich Karl von Württemberg (1772-1838), has held the title of Count von Sontheim since 1802.

Professional activity

Sontheim joined the Württemberg army as a lieutenant . In the time of the Napoleonic wars he rose quickly, in 1818 he became director of the Secret War Chancellery as Colonel. In November 1829, the then major general in Ludwigsburg was appointed for life as a member of the Chamber of Class Lords . In 1839 King Wilhelm I appointed Count Sontheim to be the military tutor of Crown Prince Karl von Württemberg , whom he followed during his studies in Tübingen and Berlin. On September 15, 1842, Count von Sontheim became Württemberg Minister of War . On June 24, 1848, when he was appointed governor of the Federal Fortress of Ulm, he was relieved of his post as Minister of War.

Marriages and children

In 1816 he married Luise Freiin von Liebenstein (1799-1820), in 1823 her second marriage was her sister Mathilde (1803-1870). They were daughters of the royal Württemberg titular forest master Carl Ludwig Friedrich von Liebenstein (1762–1822). The Liebenstein family was considered to be of a small nobility, but the first sister had been adopted by the rich Marie Antonie Walburge Crecentia von Bouwinghausen, who provided for a handsome dowry of 30,000 guilders. The first wife, to the sadness of Sontheim, had entered into an affair, which is why the count wanted to divorce, but the young wife died of nervous fever beforehand. Count Georg von Sontheim had a total of six children (all from a second marriage), of which only one did not survive infancy:

1. Pauline Countess v. Sontheim, born April 11, 1824, † March 2, 1900
2. Charlotte Countess v. Sontheim, * March 5, 1827, † February 24, 1900. She was court lady of the Württemberg princess Katharina (1821-1898), daughter of King Wilhelm I, and was dismissed after more than twenty years of service in July 1868 because the relationship between she and the princess had become increasingly difficult and she suspected of indiscretion.
3. Emma Countess v. Sontheim, born April 25, 1829, † August 6, 1892, ⚭ 1858 Baron Eduard von der Osten (1828–1897), Württemberg major
4. Countess Luise v. Sontheim, * May 1831, † September 29, 1831
5. Friedrich Wilhelm Georg Count v. Sontheim, born September 15, 1837, † April 25, 1873, Wuerttemberg Rittmeister
6. Marie Countess v. Sontheim, born August 4, 1839, † May 10, 1897, ⚭ 1863 Baron Moritz Schad von Mittelbiberach (1821–1902), President of the Württemberg Regional Court ; Because of this, later, in 1900, a request from Konrad Freiherr Schad v. Mittelbiberach (1864–1934; ⚭ Maria Hodelmaier; lawyer, appointed secret chamberlain by Pope Leo XIII in 1894 ) as descendants and heirs of the Count's Sontheim family for permission to use the title of Count of Sontheim and the salutation with the predicate Hochgeboren .

Honors

• 1809: Knight's Cross of the Military Order of Merit
• 1815: Commentary Cross of the Civil Order of Merit
• 1834: Grand Cross of the Order of Frederick
• 1844: Grand Cross of the Order of the Zähringer Lion
• 1846: Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown
• 1853: Commentary Cross of the Order of Military Merit

swell

• Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, E 40/33 Bü 362: (including draft of a coat of arms and granting of a pension for Count Georg von Sontheim)  in the German Digital Library

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 873 .
• Frank Raberg : Biographical Lexicon for Ulm and Neu-Ulm 1802-2009 . Süddeutsche Verlagsgesellschaft im Jan Thorbecke Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7995-8040-3 , p. 414 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Ulm City Archive, Archive of the Lords and Barons Schad von Mittelbiberach, files and official books, edited by Oliver Fieg, Ulm 2006 ( digitized ( memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
2. ^ Therese Huber , Volume 7, October 1818-1820 , Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 689 , 1395 and 1597
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Ulm City Archives, Archive of the Lords and Barons of Schad von Mittelbiberach, Urkundenregesten 1418–1855, edited by Oliver Fieg, Ulm 2006 ( digitized ( Memento from December 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ))
4. ^ Eduard Heydenreich, Handbook of Practical Genealogy (2012), p. 217
5. ^ Bernhard Peter; Signs of illegitimate birth (accessed December 20, 2015)
6. ↑ Festschrift Friedrich Eugen, Duke of Württemberg: Honorary monument of Weiland Most Serene Duke and Lord, Mr. Friedrich Eugens, reigning Duke of Wirtemberg and Teck, Counts of Mömpelgard, Counts and Lords of Limpurg-Gaildorf and Sontheim-Schmiedelfeld, also Ober- Sontheim, Mr. zu Heidenheim and Justingen ec. , Stuttgart: Cotta, [1798]
7. ↑ leobw, discover regional studies online: Sontheim an der Brenz (accessed December 24, 2015)
8. ^ Christian Carl André, New National Calendar for the Entire Austrian Monarchy , Prague 1817, p. 1804
9. ^ Therese Huber, Volume 7, October 1818 - 1820 , Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 1552 and 1597.
10. ^ Therese Huber, Volume 7, October 1818 - 1820 , Berlin / Boston 2013, p. 1395.
11. ^ Therese Huber, Volume 7, October 1818 - 1820 , Berlin / Boston 2013, pp. 689 f.
12. ↑ Association for computer genealogy , genealogy.net , Johann Georg v. SONTHEIM ( Memento from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
13. ^ Association for Computer Genealogy , genealogy.net , Charlotte v. SONTHEIM ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed December 20, 2015)
14. ↑ Christa Diemel, Noble women in the bourgeois century: Court ladies, collegiate ladies, salon ladies 1800–1870 (2015) ( digitized version )
15. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department Main State Archive Stuttgart, M 707 No. 1119: East, Eduard von der, Baron  in the German Digital Library
16. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Department Main State Archive Stuttgart, M 707 No. 1332: Sontheim, Friedrich Wilhelm von, Count  in the German Digital Library
17. ^ Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Dept. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, E 40/33 Bü 362: Increases in rank among the knightly nobility and unpaid hereditary nobility, first letter S - T: Graf von Sontheim  in the German Digital Library
18. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1858. P. 61.
19. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden 1847. P. 53.
20. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1858. p. 32.
21. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1858. P. 56.