Karl Friedrich Reinhard von Gemmingen (1739–1822)

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Karl Friedrich Reinhard von Gemmingen

Karl Friedrich Reinhard von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (born February 21, 1739 in Ansbach ; † June 3, 1822 in Ansbach) was minister at the court of Karl Alexander von Brandenburg-Ansbach , knight captain of the knightly canton of Odenwald and last general director of the imperial knighthood until 1790 .

Life

Child portrait

Karl Friedrich Reinhard von Gemmingen was the son of Friedrich Casimir von Gemmingen (1694–1744) from the family of the Lords of Gemmingen , who was a servant of the Margrave of Ansbach. After the early death of his father, his mother moved to Heilbronn , where he attended Latin school. His guardian was his uncle Reinhard von Gemmingen (1698–1773). In 1754 he became court junker to Margrave Karl Wilhelm Friedrich von Ansbach. He studied law in Tübingen from 1755 to 1760 . He was then an assessor at the Tübingen Court of Appeal and then at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar .

The Ansbach Margrave Karl Alexander appointed him in 1761 to chamberlain as well as to court advisor and judicial advisor . In this position he worked again at the Reich Chamber of Commerce in Wetzlar. In 1765, the Lower Saxon Knights' Circle appointed him to Wetzlar as assessor with the approval of the margrave. In 1767 he received a seat and vote in the Chamber and Landscape College in Ansbach. He was soon responsible for all financial issues, with the administrative union with the Principality of Bayreuth increasing the activity immensely from 1769. In 1770 he was given a ministerial post and was appointed President of the Justice Council, whereupon he gave up his activity at the Reich Chamber of Commerce and refused other offices assigned to him. In 1775 he accompanied the margrave on a trip to Italy, during which he became seriously ill and during which his brother-in-law, Chamberlain von Reizenstein, died. In 1777 he accompanied the margrave to hand over troops to England in Holland, in the following year he was in Paris for several months in the entourage of the margrave. In 1781 he was the margrave's envoy to the court of Emperor Joseph II in Vienna .

In 1785 he also followed his uncle Philipp (1702–1785) as a knight captain of the knightly canton of Odenwald , and finally he became director general of the imperial knighthood. He voluntarily resigned from margravial service in 1790. Emperor Leopold II appointed him a privy councilor. From 1797 to 1799 he was a member of the knighthood at the Congress in Rastatt. In 1801 he was again at the imperial court in Vienna to recommend knighthood to the protection of the emperor. In 1802/03 he was a deputy of the imperial knighthood at the last extraordinary imperial deputation . After the mediatization of the imperial knighthood in 1805/06, he was Minister of State and Cabinet Minister of Baden as a financial appraiser in the service of Grand Duke Karl Friedrich. In 1809 he asked for his release and retired, which he spent partly in Ansbach and partly in Bonfeld . In old age he received numerous awards, including in 1815 the Grand Cross of the Zähringer Löwen and in 1819 the appointment to the Reichsrat for life. In 1819, Grand Duke Ludwig I offered him the presidency of the First Chamber of the Baden Estates Assembly , but Karl Friedrich Reinhard was no longer willing to take on office in view of his advanced age. He died of an unexpected stroke in 1822 and was buried in Ansbach.

possession

As a child, Karl Friedrich Reinhard was given the shares of his father, who died early in 1744, in the Gemmingen condominium. After 1773, the Gemmingen property, which was administered jointly with other partners, was divided by lot to Karl Friedrich Reinhard, his cousin Ludwig Eberhard (1750–1841) and his uncle Philipp (1702–1785), with Karl Friedrich Reinhard owning the Upper Castle in Bonfeld with everything Hearing fell. With this division he founded the Bonfeld Oberschloss branch , which existed until 1940.

family

Karl Friedrich Reinhard was married to his cousin Philippine Magdalena von Wöllwarth-Lauterburg (1750-1825). He had eleven children, three of whom survived. Son Karl Philipp continued the branch Bonfeld Oberschloss of the 2nd branch (Bonfeld-Guttenberg) of the 2nd line (Gemmingen, Guttenberg) of the barons of Gemmingen .

Progeny:

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.ag-landeskunde-oberrhein.de/index.php?id=p413v
  2. see Stocker p. 117 digitized version

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