Karl von Gemmingen (1861–1953)

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Karl Moritz Friedrich von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (born June 12, 1861 in Eßlingen , † August 19, 1953 in Boll ) was a Württemberg chamberlain and real councilor and honorary commander of the Order of St. John .

Life

He came from the 2nd branch (Bonfeld) of the II. Line (Gemmingen and Guttenberg) of the Barons of Gemmingen and was the first son of the Württemberg judiciary and later Consistorial President Wilhelm von Gemmingen (1827-1920) and Eugenie Countess von Zeppelin (1836– 1911), a sister of the well-known Count Zeppelin .

Gemmingen graduated from high school in Ulm , then studied law and worked in the civil service from 1889. Until 1892 he was at the local court in Öhringen and then came to the Württemberg Ministry for Foreign Affairs, where he was secret legation councilor . In 1893 he was cabinet secretary to King Wilhelm II , in 1900 he was promoted to cabinet chief, in 1906 he was promoted to State Council with the title of Excellency. In the First World War he was an officer, after the end of the war he retired. He spent his retired years in different places. During the Second World War he was bombed out in Stuttgart , so that he finally came to Bad Boll via Kirchheim / Teck, where he died very old in 1953.

family

His first marriage was to Hermine von Landbeck (1865-1931) and one year after her death, he married Helene Buchhold (1882-1963). There are three offspring from the first marriage:

  • Hans Dietrich (1890–1965) ⚭ Gertrud Mundorff (1890–1979, closed 1934), Hertha Klein (1905–1988)
  • Joachim Eberhard (1893–1967) ⚭ Marianne von Palm (1889–1977, closed 1930), Johanne Petershagen (1901–2001)
  • Max Wilhelm Karl (1897-1916)

literature

  • Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Heidelberg 1895, p. 124.
  • Walter von Hueck: lineage of the family of the barons of Gemmingen . Reprint from the Genealogical Handbook of the Nobility Volume 37 (Freiherrliche Häuser A, Volume VI). CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 1966, p. 148.
  • Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen - continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 . Gemmingenscher Familienverband eV 1991, p. 114.
personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen, Karl von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gemmingen-Guttenberg, Karl Moritz Friedrich von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Württemberg Chamberlain and Councilor of State
DATE OF BIRTH June 12, 1861
PLACE OF BIRTH Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH 19th August 1953
Place of death Boll