Sigismond Guillaume de Berckheim

Baron Sigismond Guillaume de Berckheim (also: Freiherr Siegmund Wilhelm von Berckheim; * May 24, 1819 in Mannheim , † April 2, 1884 in Paris ) was a French general.

Life

Sigismond Guillaume de Berckheim began his training in 1837 at the École polytechnique in Paris, which became a training center for technical army officers under Emperor Napoleon . His military career began in 1839. He fought for France in the Crimean War in 1854, for France in the Sardinian War in 1859 and in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870 . At the surrender of Metz he was taken prisoner of war as a French general, but was allowed to spend his imprisonment in his brother's Weinheim Castle until the end of the war . From 1879 to 1882 he was then chief of the French artillery and commanded the 4th Corps of the French Army from 1882 to 1884 ( Le Mans garrison location ).

family

On May 14, 1851, he married Elisabeth Levisse de Montigny-Jaucourt, daughter of the Marquis de Jaucourt. The couple had the following children:

Francoise Marie Auguste de Berckheim (1852 Paris - 1897 Paris) married Pierre-Édouard de Colbert (1834 Gambais - 1905 Paris) Brigade or Division General in 1877
Christian Egenolf Francois de Berckheim (1853–1935), French Brigadier General, Herr von Jebsheim / Alsace , married Elisabeth de Pourtalès (1867–1952) in 1886
Ida Francoise Fernande (1858 Paris - 1951 Paris) was married several times
Theodore de Berckheim

parents

His father Christian Friedrich von Berckheim (born December 21, 1781 Schoppenweier, Alsace ; † December 13, 1832 Strasbourg ) came from an old Alsatian aristocratic family . Due to the early death of his father, he became a half-orphan at the age of 13. His father's ancestors came from the Egenolf (Egenolph) III family. von Berckheim (1552–1629) and his wife Margaretha von Lichtenfels, whose three sons split into three tribes. He belonged to the 1st tribe of the so-called older (evangelical) line at Jebsheim .

His mother was Auguste von Stumm (born May 25, 1796 Mannheim , † December 1, 1876 Weinheim ). Their mother and grandmother was Friederike Auguste Schmalz (born September 15, 1765 - † February 17, 1854), the sole heir of the Mannheim trading and banking house of the same name. This had the status of a house bank in the Electoral Palatinate. His maternal grandfather was Christian Philipp Stumm (* May 30, 1760; † April 30, 1826), who founded the iron and steel industry in Saarland with his brothers. His mother Auguste had an older sister, Friederike von Stumm (1793–1829), who was married to Count Theodor Waldner von Freundstein (1786–1864) from an old Alsatian aristocratic family. This sister also died early in 1829. The widow Baroness Auguste von Berckheim later married her brother-in-law and widower Count Theodor Waldner von Freundstein and bought the Schloss Weinheim property for her first-born son, Baron Christian von Berckheim , who was the biological brother of Baron Sigismond Guillaume de Berckheim.

relationship

His father, Baron Christian Friedrich von Berckheim, had an older biological sister, Henriette von Berckheim (1772–1863), who was married to Augustin-Charles Périer, a student of the École polytechnique in Paris with a doctorate in 1790, deputy von Isère (1837–1830) , Peer of France (1832) and Knight of the Legion of Honor (1833). He came from an upper-class merchant family. The couple's descendants or relatives became presidents of the Bank of France, interior ministers and even presidents of the French Republic.

Honoring Berckheim, Tafel Ost at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris

The brother of his father, Sigismond Frédéric de Berckheim (1775–1819), who was seven years older than him, also made a career in France. He became a Napoleonic general, who on March 9, 1810 was elevated to the position of French imperial baron by the emperor. This Berckheim is one of 558 Napoleon's officers whose name was engraved on a plaque in the Arc de Triomphe . You can find the name Berckheim on site on the East panel (EST). His grandparents were Philipp Friedrich Ludwig von Berckheim auf Schoppenweier (* May 1, 1732 Schoppenweier; † January 14, 1812 Strasbourg) and Octavie Freiin von Glaubitz (* February 27, 1750 Strasbourg; † February 13, 1821 Strasbourg).

Sigismond Guillaume's two years older brother, Baron Christian Friedrich Gustav von Berckheim (1817–1889), was a Baden politician, lord of the castle and founder of the so-called exotic forest in his castle park in Weinheim .

The younger (Catholic / 3rd) line of those from Berckheims zu Rappoltsweiler comes from Egenolf IV († around 1639) . This younger line brought u. a. the Baden State Minister Karl Christian von Berckheim (1774–1849).

literature

Barons of Berckheim . In: Edmund von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Stamm-Tafeln of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden: a newly edited book of nobility . Baden-Baden 1886.

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personal data
SURNAME	Berckheim, Sigismond Guillaume de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Berckheim, Siegmund Wilhelm von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	general
DATE OF BIRTH	May 24, 1819
PLACE OF BIRTH	Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH	April 2, 1884
Place of death	Paris