Sigmund of Gemmingen

Knight's Cross of the Military Maria Theresa Order

Sigmund von Gemmingen (born March 26, 1724 in Freiburg im Breisgau , † December 17, 1806 in Raab , Hungary) was an Austrian military master and knight of the Maria Theresa Order .

Life

He was the son of the Austrian officer and later commander of Luxembourg, Eberhard von Gemmingen-Hornberg zu Treschklingen (1688–1767), and Anna Clara von Zyllnhart (1685–1768). In 1739 he volunteered in the 28th Infantry Regiment, where his father was a colonel. In 1741 he was ensign , in 1742 a captain , in 1743 a major . He took part in the battles of Dettlingen, Raucour and Lawfeld and in the siege of Maastricht in 1748. In 1754 he was a lieutenant colonel . In the Seven Years Warhe took part in battles near Collin and Breslau, where he was wounded in Breslau and was taken prisoner there. In 1760 he received the Maria Theresa Order. He later fought near Pretschendorf and Torgau, and in 1762 near Freiberg. In 1771 he became major general , in 1773 lieutenant field marshal and in 1778 owner of the 21st Infantry Regiment. In 1788 he was appointed Feldzeugmeister and was given command of the reserve corps at Semlin when the Turkish War broke out. In 1790 he retired, in the same year the Hungarian Diet granted him the great indigenous power .

Sigmund von Gemmingen owned Hornberg Castle , Treschklingen , Adersbach , Hoffenheim , Schmidthausen and other goods. Nevertheless, he spent his retirement in Hungary, where he supported his nephew Eberhard Georg von Gemmingen in his efforts to improve agriculture. He went blind from around 1792, but was able to regain his eyesight through an operation in Vienna in 1802. He died in Raab in 1806, where he is also buried.

family

His first marriage was from 1750 to Eberhardine Johanna von Gemmingen-Gemmingen (1731–1755). The connection resulted in a son and two daughters. The first wife was buried in the parade ground of the citadel of Antwerp. In 1763 he married the Catholic Countess Franziska Xaviera von Althann (1733–1811) in Vienna and converted to the Catholic faith himself the following year. His second wife, who gave birth to nine more children, five of whom survived the father, rests next to him in Raab.

Progeny:

• Eberhard (1752–1796), killed as an imperial captain in Kehl
• Clara Ludovika (1753–1814) ⚭ Otto Heinrich I von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1727–1790)
• Maria Benedikta (1755–1840) ⚭ Reinhard Dietrich von Berlichingen zu Merchingen
• Maria Anna (1765–1813) ⚭ Johann Graf von Batthany zu Csakany
• Theresia (1771–1808) ⚭ Baron La More
• Franziska (1773–1814) ⚭ Ludwig von Sternegg
• Antonie (1775–1826) remained single
• Sigmund Johann Nepomuk (1777–1843) ⚭ Charlotte von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1785–1842), inherits Rappenau in 1806

literature

• Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 288/289.
• Anne and Helmut Schüßler: Treschklingen - From the knightly Kraichgaudorf to the district of Bad Rappenau. City of Bad Rappenau, Bad Rappenau 2004, ISBN 3-936866-02-3
• Walter von Hueck: Lineage of the Barons von Gemmingen , Limburg an der Lahn 1966