Ulrich von Gaisberg-Helfenberg

Hans Ulrich Karl Hermann Gustav Rudolf Freiherr von Gaisberg-Helfenberg (born January 26, 1863 in Steinheim am Albuch , † April 8, 1906 in Stuttgart ) was a German landowner and politician.

family

Gaisberg came from an old Swabian noble family and was a son of the Württemberg chief forester Karl Ludwig Friedrich Hermann Freiherr von Gaisberg-Helfenberg and his wife Leopoldine, née. Eichrodt. In 1890 he married at Castle Guttenberg Marie Luise Henriette Baroness von Gemmingen-Guttenberg, a daughter of the 1868 deceased landowner Gustav Ludwig Ernst Freiherr von Gemmingen-Guttenberg and his wife, Caroline, born Freiin Cotta von Cottendorf. His brother was the chief hunter Hermann von Gaisberg-Helfenberg .

Life

After attending the Latin school in Beilstein , Ulrich von Gaisberg moved into the Oranienstein cadet institute in 1873 , but had to discontinue preparation for an officer career after two years for health reasons. He switched to the grammar school in Heilbronn and passed the Abitur there in 1882. He then began studying forest sciences at the University of Munich , where he became a member of the Corps Franconia . In addition to his studies, he did his service as a one-year volunteer in the Royal Bavarian Infantry Body Regiment , but was also dismissed here after a few months because of his suffering. At a mensur he was drafted by the police and sentenced to a fortress sentence, which he spent on the Hohenasperg . His father then prevented the return to Munich. Gaisberg enrolled at the University of Tübingen and became a member of the Corps Suevia . In Tübingen he passed the mathematical and scientific preliminary examination at Easter 1884. At the request of his father, however, he then turned completely to agriculture, practically learned on an estate near Neckarzimmern and studied at the University of Halle and the Agricultural University in Hohenheim. Study trips took him to northern Germany and the Rhine. In 1887 he took over the lease of the Helfenberg family estate . In 1895 he was elected to the Württemberg Chamber of Deputies by the knighthood of the Neckar District; he held this mandate until his death. He was deputy chairman of the Württemberg wine-growing association and in 1903 became an extraordinary member of the administrative committee of the Central Office for Agriculture.

In 1902 Gaisberg entered the court domain chamber as court chamber councilor and took over the administration of the court chamber domain property. He was a royal chamberlain of Württemberg and a knight of honor of the Order of St. John .

Ulrich von Gaisberg died in Stuttgart in 1906. He found his final resting place in Beilstein.

Awards

• Knight's Cross of the Royal Württemberg Crown Order .

literature

• Frank Raberg : Biographical handbook of the Württemberg state parliament members 1815-1933 . On behalf of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Württemberg. Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 2001, ISBN 3-17-016604-2 , p. 239 .
• 200 semesters of Munich francs . [Munich] 1936, pp. 289f. (No. 473)