Ludwig Otto Gmelin

Ludwig Otto Gmelin (born September 15, 1786 in Tübingen , † December 23, 1855 in Stuttgart ) was a German lawyer and military .

Life

Ludwig Otto Gmelin was the son of the legal scholar Christian Gottlieb Gmelin . His brothers were the politician Friedrich von Gmelin and the lawyer Christian Heinrich Gmelin . From 1800 to 1805 he trained as a clerk. From 1803 to 1808 he studied law in Tübingen. 1808 he was hired as an actuary at the Vaihingen Oberamt . In 1810 he became a regiment quartermaster and auditor of a foothunter battalion . In these offices he took part in the campaign through Russia in 1812, in the Leipzig battle as field chief auditor in 1813 and in the following year on the march to France . In 1814 he was employed as a senior bailiff in Sulz am Neckar . Gmelin began working as a chief magistrate in Leonberg in 1819, and in 1829 he was transferred to Rottenburg as chief magistrate. There he became director of the penitentiary in 1840 .

On January 27, 1815, he married Charlotte Ernestine Umfried in Gröningen , with whom he had seven children.

politics

In 1819, Ludwig Otto Gmelin was elected for the first time in the Württemberg state parliament as a member of the Marbach constituency . In 1825 he was elected a second time for the Sulz constituency.

literature

• Moriz Gmelin : Family tree of the Gmelin family (Karlsruhe, Braun, 1877; page 98)
• Wolfram Angerbauer (Red.): The heads of the upper offices, district offices and district offices in Baden-Württemberg from 1810 to 1972 . Published by the working group of the district archives at the Baden-Württemberg district assembly. Theiss, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-8062-1213-9 , pp. 278 .
• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 272 .