Ludwig Eberhard von Gemmingen (1719–1782)

Tomb in the garden cemetery

Ludwig Eberhard von Gemmingen (born November 9, 1719 , † June 2, 1782 ) was the Hanover government councilor and minister of state as well as the Grand Vogt in Celle and Hanover .

Life

He was a son of Ernst Ludwig von Gemmingen (1685-1743) and Dorothea Barbara von Utterodt († 1769). He studied and then spent a time in Wetzlar at the Imperial Court of Justice . He then went on trips to England, Holland and France, where he devoted himself to political science there. After his return he became a Hanoverian government councilor, then envoy to the Reichstag in Regensburg, later Minister of State, curator of Göttingen and Grand Vogt in Celle and Hanover.

Since he had not been married and had no heirs, he made his will in 1781, in which he appointed his niece Dorothea, the daughter of his brother Hans Weiprecht (1723–1781), as the universal heir of his allodial property , which had been converted into a family entailment. In his will, he also made foundations for the school teachers' seminar in Hanover, for the poor house and work house there and for the church and the poor in Fränkisch-Crumbach .

In May 1782 he fell ill with the "Russian disease" from which he died on June 2, 1782. He was buried in the garden cemetery near the St. Marien garden church in Hanover.

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, pp. 262–263.