Max von Gemmingen (1862-1924)

Max von Gemmingen

Max Ferdinand Ludwig von Gemmingen-Guttenberg (born June 29, 1862 in Eßlingen , † March 4, 1924 in Friedrichshafen ) was a Württemberg officer . He was a nephew of Count Zeppelin and followed him on the board of the Zeppelin Foundation in 1917 .

Life

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

Gemmingen studied geography and economics in Leipzig . He was then involved in the development of zeppelin airship travel in the vicinity of his uncle. During the First World War he was a general staff officer of the airship LZ 17 Sachsen , through which he met Ernst A. Lehmann , with whom he invented the principle of the scouting basket in 1915 . After Zeppelin's death, von Gemmingen succeeded the Count in 1917 as a director of the Zeppelin Foundation. He ended his military career as a colonel. In 1919 he suggested carrying out the polar flights with zeppelins that had already been planned by Count Zeppelin, in order to also demonstrate the serviceability of the airships. To this end, Hugo Eckener was appointed to the foundation's board of directors, who took over as chairman after Gemmingen's death in 1924.

He remained unmarried. His sister Amélie (1865–1938) ran his household.

He owned a large collection of art objects from East Asia and the Orient, which were auctioned off at Fleischhauer in Stuttgart after his death.

Works

The Zeppelin airship at sea , Berlin 1914 ( digitized version )

Individual evidence

↑ Heitland 1991, p. 114.
^ Ernst August Lehmann and Leonhard Adelt: Auf Luftpatrouille und Weltfahrt , Leipzig 1936, pp. 45/46.
^ David Thomas Murphy: German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870-1940 , p. 112.
^ Elmar L. Kuhn : Luftschiffbau - Friedrichshafen - 1920s: The years of the Weimar Republic.
↑ Heitland 1991, p. 114.
↑ Felix Fleischhauer (Ed.): Large auction of the important collection of the estate of † Baron Max von Gemmingen, Friedrichshafen (East Asia, Orient) as well as paintings by the first Stuttgart and Munich artists and antiquities of all kinds in silver, pewter, porcelain, carpets, miniatures , Furniture, bronzes, books, engravings etc. Stuttgart 1924 ( digitized - auction catalog).

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.

personal data
SURNAME	Gemmingen, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gemmingen-Guttenberg, Max Ferdinand Ludwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Wuerttemberg officer
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH	Esslingen
DATE OF DEATH	March 4, 1924
Place of death	Friedrichshafen

[1] Heitland 1991, p. 114.

[2] Ernst August Lehmann and Leonhard Adelt: Auf Luftpatrouille und Weltfahrt , Leipzig 1936, pp. 45/46.

[3] David Thomas Murphy: German Exploration of the Polar World: A History, 1870-1940 , p. 112.

[4] Elmar L. Kuhn : Luftschiffbau - Friedrichshafen - 1920s: The years of the Weimar Republic.

[5] Heitland 1991, p. 114.

[6] Felix Fleischhauer (Ed.): Large auction of the important collection of the estate of † Baron Max von Gemmingen, Friedrichshafen (East Asia, Orient) as well as paintings by the first Stuttgart and Munich artists and antiquities of all kinds in silver, pewter, porcelain, carpets, miniatures , Furniture, bronzes, books, engravings etc. Stuttgart 1924 ( digitized - auction catalog).