Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1838–1912)

Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg (born May 5, 1838 in Breisach , † December 29, 1912 in Baden-Baden ) came from the Hagenschieß line of the Barons of Gemmingen and was a lieutenant in the Grand Duke of Baden. He became known primarily as a sponsor of numerous evangelical institutions and as the editor of the Schutz- und Trutz-Schriften of the Christian Kolportage-Verein . He is considered an important social reformer of the sanctification movement of his time.

Life

He was the son of Joseph von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1804–1873) and Friederike von Struve (1807–1890). He married St. Clair von Struve (1842–1863) in 1862, who died on November 22, 1863 soon after the birth of their daughter of the same name, St. Clair von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1863–1951). In 1864 he married Countess Sophie zu Castell-Rüdenhausen (1828–1881) and acquired the Watthalden estate near Ettlingen . There the son Joseph (1866-1937) and the daughter Stephanie (1867-1939) were born. In 1872 he bought the former district court building in Gernsbach for his daughter St. Clair . In the following year, after his father's death, he gave up the Watthalden estate and moved with the family to Gernsbach. A few years after the death of the second wife, he married Pauline von Prittwitz and Gafron (1856–1943) in 1888 , with whom he had three other children: Margarethe (1889–1956), Ilse (1891–1917) and Hans Dieter (1895–? ). The family lived for a long time in Blonay above Montreux , where Julius' brother-in-law was married to a landowner. In 1899 Julius bought a large property in Switzerland , his wife ran the Pension Edelweiß in Adelboden , an elegant, Christian-style accommodation where Julius held the devotions . The family owned another apartment in Baden-Baden, where Julius was also active in biblical circles .

Gernsbach Julius committed von Gemmingen-Steinegg for the promotion of the evangelical church life since the Protestant communities were numerically in the minority after the line Steinegg the barons of Gemmingen as landlords to 1823 Catholic had been. He initiated Bible study groups in his house, was one of the initiators of today's Evangelical Girls' Home in Gernsbach in 1880 and was a member of numerous other Christian associations. In addition, he founded the Kolportage-Verein and a printing company in the Gemmingen house , in which he published the association's Schutz- und Trutz-Schriften from 1904 .

Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg was also very closely associated with the Steinegg ruins , which had once belonged to his grandfather of the same name, Julius von Gemmingen-Steinegg (1774–1842), then sold by his sons, but later again by an uncle of Julius' was acquired. Julius' daughter St. Clair was finally able to take over the ruins and begin the reconstruction and conversion into a Protestant youth camp.

literature

• Walter von Hueck: Lineage of the Barons von Gemmingen , special print from the Genealogical Handbook of the Adels Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966
• Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 , Elztal 1991
• Stephan Ph. Wolf: Gemmingen-Hagenschieß-Steinegg, Julius Alfred August Freiherr von , in: Badische Biographien . NF 4. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-17-010731-3 , pp. 92-93
• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 353/354.

Web links

• Biogram at LEO-BW