Karl August Wilhelm of Gemmingen

Karl August Wilhelm von Gemmingen (* August 6, 1740 ; † December 23, 1799 ) was an officer in Baden-Durlach , later a Hohenlohe-Bartstein chief hunter and landlord in Maienfels .

Life

He was the son of Karl Wilhelm von Gemmingen (1701–1763) and Ernestine Friederike von Pretlack . He inherited Maienfels. In 1762 he was an officer and chamberlain from Baden-Durlach , later he switched to the service of Hohenlohe-Bartenstein as chief hunter. After the death of his wife, he retired to his castle in Maienfels. In their vicinity, he had a forest set up between Kreuzle and Happbühl and a stone set up there with the inscription Per preces studium et laborem nihil impossibile est homini sapienti. 1789. He died in 1799 of dropsy .

family

It belongs to the Maienfels-Aries branch within the 1st branch (Bürg) in the III. Line (Neckarzimmern / Bürg) of the barons of Gemmingen . From 1764 he was married to Auguste Charlotte von Gemmingen (1737–1789), the daughter of Casimir von Gemmingen (1697–1769) from the Bürg-Presteneck branch within the same family branch . The couple left behind only their daughter Karoline Luise, as a result of which the Maienfels sub-branch of the family died out in the male line. After Karl August Wilhelm's death, the ownership of Maienfels fell to relatives in Aries .

The family branch in Widdern also took possession of the Dottenheimer fief in Schüpfergrund, which had been in the family's possession since the wedding of Hans Albrecht von Gemmingen in 1646. Karl August Wilhelm's daughter Karoline Luise, who was married to Eugen von Stetten († 1829), however, asserted her inheritance claim in court and was assigned the fief in 1816 by the Baden fiefdom.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 192.