Philipp von Gemmingen (1738–1800)

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Philipp von Gemmingen (born February 17, 1738 ; † March 7, 1800 ) was a royal nassau-usingenscher government councilor and saxony-gotha-altenburg legation councilor at the imperial court in Wetzlar . As a comitial envoy , he also represented the interests of various princes at the Reichstag in Regensburg.

Life

He was the youngest son of Philipp von Gemmingen (1702–1785) and Elisabeth Margaretha von Racknitz (1714–1783). He attended grammar school in Heilbronn and in 1756 came to the university in Giessen. In 1759 he moved to his older brother Christoph Dietrich (1736–1800) at the university in Jena. In 1764 he attended the coronation of Emperor Joseph II and then worked at the Imperial Court of Justice in Wetzlar . In 1765 he accompanied his youngest brother to Italy. He was initially a princely government councilor of Nassau-Usingen and a secret trainee, but after a short time he entered the service of Saxony-Gotha . As a commissioner at the Reich Chamber of Commerce, he represented the interests of Altenburg and Weimar. In 1771 he became a legation councilor .

On November 6, 1778 Ernst II of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg appointed him to the Privy Council; he was dispensed by Incumbenz and seat in the government college and sent to the Reichstag in Regensburg as a comitial envoy for Gotha and Altenburg (also Saalfeld) . In addition, he was authorized to represent Hessen-Darmstadt , Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Ratzeburg in 1779 and received the Schwarzburg vote from Ernst II and his vote from Karl August von Sachsen-Weimar . When Karl August dispatched him in 1780 to empower Johann Eustach Graf von Görtz , he expressly emphasized his satisfaction with Gemmingen. In 1794, von Gemmingen also received the voice of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel . Von Gemmingen was considered "a worthy emissary of his finely educated court". On the other hand, he possessed the reliability required of a comitial envoy and the ability to fully understand his client's wishes, plans and political thoughts, only to a limited extent. "If only one could add something of Count Görtz's bustle (he was constantly pushing for instructions, etc.) and the latter something of Gemmingen's phlegm. That would help both." The Gothaer Hof was only satisfied to a limited extent with Gemmingen's work as a comitial envoy, when his suggestions were usually received at unsuitable moments and the reports provided were often poorly drafted.

family

From 1773 he was married to Friederike Christiane Florentine Voit von Salzburg († 1799). Both were buried in Birkenfeld , where the wife's family was wealthy. The marriage resulted in only one daughter who died at the age of 12 days.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rudolf Schlösser: Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter: His life and his works, in: Berthold Litzmann (Hrsg.): Theatergeschichtliche Forschungen, Volume 10, Hamburg / Leipzig: Voß 1894, p. 20.
  2. ↑ Julius Frankenstein: The Foreign Policy of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg and the Imperial War against France up to the departure of the duchy (1790–1797). Berlin: Emil Ebering, 1935, p. 56ff.
personal data
SURNAME Gemmingen, Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Nassau-Usingenscher government councilor and Saxon-Gotha legation councilor
DATE OF BIRTH February 17, 1738
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1800