Philipp von Berckheim

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Philipp Freiherr von Berckheim , (born January 8, 1883 in Berlin ; † November 13, 1945 in Mannheim ) was the owner of the exotic forest and, until it was sold to the city of Weinheim in 1938, the last owner of the Weinheim castle and park from the Berckheim family. As a relative of the Stumm family, he was a member of the supervisory board of Dillinger Hütte .

family

Weinheim Castle
Exotic forest Weinheim
Dillinger Hütte around 1900

The father of Philipp Freiherr von Berckheim, Count Siegmund Theodor von Berckheim (born March 23, 1851 in Mannheim ; † July 8, 1927 ) was the Baden ambassador to the Prussian court in Berlin . He had the mausoleum built in Weinheim's palace gardens as a family grave. His mother Adolphine Maria Huberta Gabriele Freiin Wambolt von Umstadt (* January 28, 1859 ) was considered one of the most beautiful women in Berlin at the time. His parents had four children (four siblings):

  • Count Philipp Christian Paul von Berckheim, (1883–1945) married Count Irene Julie Olga von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1895–1969 ) in 1918 , divorced in 1938. She was married in 1938 to Hermann Prinz zu Leiningen (1901–1971). . He was buried in the family mausoleum in Weinheim's castle park, his divorced wife in Bayrischzell.
  • Baron Christian-Theodor Anton von Berckheim (born July 3, 1890 - September 1, 1925) married Maria Katharina, Countess von Schönborn-Wiesentheid (1896–1994) (her sister was temporarily the wife of her brother-in-law) in 1918. After only six years of marriage, they were divorced in 1924. In 1924 she married Hans Heinrich XVII, Prince of Pless, Count of Hochberg, Baron zu Fürstenstein (1900–1984). This second marriage was also divorced in 1952. Baron Christian-Theodor Anton von Berckheim was buried in the family mausoleum in Weinheim's palace gardens.

Life

The upbringing in the family of Philipp Freiherr von Berckheim was based on the Evangelical Lutheran values. He attended the Bender Institute in Weinheim / Baden and the humanistic grammar school in Bensheim for school education. He completed his school education on February 24, 1902 with the Abitur. He then began studying law at the universities in Berlin, Bonn, Greifswald, Heidelberg and Marburg. Since 1902 he was a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . During his studies he did his service in the imperial army from Easter 1904 as a one-year volunteer. He finished his studies in 1907 with the trainee exam in October and then in November 1907 with the doctorate to become a Dr. jur. From the beginning of November 1907 he took up a position in the Prussian judicial service and was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve in March 1908. In May of the same year he finished his employment with the judicial service.

At the end of 1911, Philipp Freiherr von Berckheim was drafted into the Foreign Office and began his diplomatic career here. First he was employed as an attaché and began his service at the German embassy in Paris on January 13, 1912. This mission ended after a year and he moved from here in March 1913 to the German consulate in San Francisco. Here, too, he was only there for a short time and began his service at the German embassy in Washington in November 1913. Another change in the summer of 1914 then took him from the USA to Austria. Here he began his assignment at the German embassy in Vienna in July, but then had to go to the Prussian embassy in August due to the state of war and was drafted from here on August 30, 1914 for military service.

Philipp Freiherr von Berckheim experienced the First World War from September 1914, first in the Deputy General Staff in Berlin, then in the High Command of the 6th Army, from which he was deployed in the rank of Rittmeister in Department IIIb of the Great General Staff. At that time, Walter Nicolai (1873-1947) was head of Department III b , in whose area he remained until the end of 1916. During this period of service he was appointed Secretary of the Legation in the summer of 1915. From the beginning of 1917 he returned to the Foreign Office and from February 1917 was deployed to the Foreign Office's representative on the General Staff. Until the end of 1918 he took over the business of the representative of the Foreign Office in the Supreme Army Command several times. At the end of the war in November 1918 he switched to the deliberations of the German armistice commissions in Spa as a representative of the Political Department of the Foreign Office. On November 27, 1919, he was released from service in the Reich.

Philipp Freiherr von Berckheim withdrew from the public and from that point on he managed the land owned by his family as the landlord. Later he was brought to the Dillinger-Hütte supervisory board as a member of the Stumm family.

children

From the marriage of Philipp Christian Paul von Berckheim to Countess Irene von Schönborn-Wiesentheid there were two children:

  • Count Philipp Constantin von Berckheim (1924–1984) married Princess Sophie Antoinette zu Fürstenberg (1934–1991), daughter of one of the richest families in the Federal Republic of Germany at the time. After 9 years of marriage, they divorced in 1963.
  • Marietta Rosario Margarethe Adolfine Irene Philippine Gisela Countess von Berckheim (* 1920) married Baron Bodo von Bruemmer (* 1911) in 1960 . She lived and died in Portugal and, at her request, found her final resting place in St Maria de Casal.

Burial place

Philipp Freiherr von Berckheim was buried in the mausoleum in the park of the Weinheim Castle. His brother Baron Christian-Theodor Anton von Berckheim, his son Count Philipp Constantin von Berckheim and his parents Count Siegmund Theodor Friedrich von Berckheim and Countess Adolphine also rest here .

Street name patronage

The city of Dillingen honors the von Berckheim family by naming a street in their city "Berckheimerstraße".

Hints

literature

  • Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871–1945, editor of the Foreign Office, Schöningh Verlag, Volume 1. pp. 114f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 9 , 856
  2. ↑ Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871–1945, editor of the Foreign Office, Schöningh Verlag, Volume 1. pp. 114f.
personal data
SURNAME Berckheim, Philipp von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berckheim, Philipp Freiherr von; Berckheim, Philipp Christian Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Baden castle owner
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 13, 1945
Place of death Mannheim