Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen (Chamberlain)

Karl Friedrich of Gemmingen

Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen (born February 11, 1779 in Heilbronn , † April 21, 1871 in Bonfeld ) was the royal chamberlain of Württemberg and district forest adviser for the Danube district . He was the last living student at the Karlsschule in Stuttgart , which he had attended temporarily before turning to forestry .

Life

Karl Friedrich comes from the 2nd branch (Bonfeld) of the 2nd line (Gemmingen and Guttenberg) of the Barons of Gemmingen . He was a son of Ludwig Eberhard von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (1750–1841) and Louise Auguste Freiin von Saint-André (1752–1815). From 1790 he attended the Karlsschule in Stuttgart, but abandoned a military career and devoted himself to forestry . Duke Ludwig Eugen von Württemberg appointed him forestry page in 1794. In 1797 he became court and hunting squire, in 1804 court chief forester and chamberlain. In 1806 he was chief forester in Heidenheim , in 1812 chief forester 1st class in Urach . In 1817 he became district forest master and later district forest adviser for the Danube district in Ulm . In 1840 he retired, which he spent in Bonfeld .

The Gemminger family property in Bonfeld, Guttenberg , Dammhof and Niedersteinach was managed as a condominium by Karl Friedrich together with his brothers Philipp Albrecht (1782-1852) and Ludwig Reinhard (1777-1852) . The condominium existed until 1932.

When Baden troops fled to Bonfeld during the Baden Revolution in 1849, fleeing from irregulars, he unsuccessfully advocated billeting the troubled troops at the town hall. The soldiers finally found shelter in the two Bonfeld castles and were besieged by an angry mob. Only the deployment of the Heilbronn vigilante group under Bernhard Nickel enabled the soldiers to safely withdraw. Karl Friedrich von Gemmingen reached the old age of 92 years.

In 1837 he was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown for his services to the expansion of the Württemberg forest administration .

family

He was married to Juliane von Saint-André (1782-1856). His descendants form the 1st house (Guttenberg) within the 2nd branch (Bonfeld Unterschloss) from the 2nd branch (Bonfeld-Guttenberg) of the 2nd line (Gemmingen, Guttenberg) of the Barons of Gemmingen.

Progeny:

• Luise Charlotte (* 1814) ∞ Friedrich Schott von Schottenstein
• Gustav Ludwig Ernst (1812–1868) ∞ Karoline Cotta von Cottendorf (1827–1891)

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 118-120.
• Walter von Hueck (Ed.): 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.
• Rudolf Petzold: Bonfeld and the barons of Gemmingen from 1476 to 1806, the transition to Württemberg , in: Heimatbuch Bonfeld , ed. from the city of Bad Rappenau 2000.
• Werner Gebhardt: The students of the Hohen Karlsschule. A biographical lexicon . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2011, ISBN 978-3-17-021563-4 , pp. 251-252 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Heimatbuch Bonfeld, 2000, p. 84.