Karl von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1857–1935)

Gravestone, main cemetery Mannheim (part of the large tomb of the Scipio family)

Karl Freiherr von Gemmingen-Hornberg (born November 16, 1857 in Babstadt , Baden , † June 11, 1935 in Heidelberg ) was an administrative lawyer . He was district director in Forbach and Strasbourg and district president in Lorraine.

Life

He was a son of the Babstadt landlord Hermann von Gemmingen (1820-1891) and Pauline Maximiliane Philippine von Ellrichshausen (1825-1865). He attended grammar school in Heilbronn from 1868 to 1877 and then studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . In 1879 he became active in the Corps Bremensia Göttingen . After the second state examination he was a government assessor in Colmar and later at the district presidencies in Erstein, Chateau-Salins and Metz. From 1896 to 1903 he was district director of the Forbach district , from 1903 to 1912 district director of the Strasbourg district . From 1912 to 1918, until the end of the First World War , he was the last imperial district president of the Lorraine district in the realm of Alsace-Lorraine . The Corps Rhenania Strasbourg awarded him the ribbon in Marburg in 1929 .

family

Karl von Gemmingen-Hornberg married Hedwig Scipio (1867–1935) from Mannheim on February 18, 1892 . Their parents were the entrepreneur Ferdinand Scipio (1837–1905) and his wife Clotilde nee. Jordan , daughter of the Deidesheim winery owner Ludwig Andreas Jordan (1811–1883). The couple were buried in the Scipio family grave in the main cemetery in Mannheim and are noted on the right on the large overall grave.

progeny: Hans Lothar (1893–1975) ∞ Ellenruth Röchling (1900–1977); Clothilde Pauline (1895–1980); Pauline Clothilde (1898–1988) ∞ Joachim Graf von Hohenthal (1895–1969); Ludwig (1901–1978) ∞ Ilse Kottenhahn (* 1910)

literature

Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 308.
Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 , Elztal 1991.

Individual evidence

↑ Life dates after the tombstone in Mannheim.
↑ ^a ^b Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39/851; 100/349.
^ Strasbourg district (territorial.de)

personal data
SURNAME	Gemmingen-Hornberg, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gemmingen-Hornberg, Karl Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	District Director in Forbach and Strasbourg, District President in Lorraine
DATE OF BIRTH	November 16, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH	Babstadt , Grand Duchy of Baden
DATE OF DEATH	June 11, 1935
Place of death	Heidelberg

[1] Life dates after the tombstone in Mannheim.

[KCL-2] Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39/851; 100/349.

[3] Strasbourg district (territorial.de)