Wilhelm Pleikard Ludwig von Gemmingen
Wilhelm Pleikard Ludwig von Gemmingen (born May 20, 1823 in Karlsruhe , † July 29, 1903 there ) was a German officer . From 1855 he was part of the retinue of Prince Wilhelm von Baden and later held the highest offices at his court.
Life
He was a son of August Karl Franz Johann von Gemmingen (1792-1870) and Amalia von Gemmingen-Hornberg (1801-1865). He attended the Lyceum in Karlsruhe and studied in Heidelberg and Berlin. In 1848 he volunteered in the 1st bath. Margrave Max Dragoon Regiment. When the Baden Revolution broke out, he was a member of the escort that accompanied the grand ducal family to Germersheim. Then in May 1849 he was among the troops of General Hoffmann, who after a march to Fürfeld and Bonfeld , old possessions of the barons of Gemmingen, were looking to join the Württemberg troops. The company turned into a fiasco, a Baden captain shot himself in the garden of the Bonfeld lower castle , the Baden soldiers only managed to escape from Bonfeld under the protection of the Heilbronn vigilante group. Wilhelm then went to Ludwigsburg and on to Frankfurt am Main. After the suppression of the revolution he came to the cavalry depot in Bruchsal in September 1849, and in 1850 he was appointed lieutenant in the 3rd Baden Dragoon Regiment. In 1855 he accompanied Prince Wilhelm von Baden to the coronation of the tsar in St. Petersburg. He remained in the prince's entourage and in 1860 transferred from military service to court service as chamberlain. In 1861 he became court marshal , in 1872 court marshal and in 1881 lord of the chamberlain. He was awarded numerous medals for his services.
Awards
- Baden Order of Berthold I of Zähringen , Grand Cross
- Badischer Zähringer Lion Order with the golden chain
- Badisches Memorial Cross for 1870/71
- Prussian Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class with an enamel band of the Order of the Crown in diamonds
- Prussian Crown Order, 1st class
- Royal Saxon Order of Albrecht , Grand Cross with gold star
- Royal Hanoverian Guelph Order , Commander's Cross
- Royal Württemberg Crown Order , Grand Cross
- Royal Württemberg Order of Frederick , Grand Cross
- Large Hessian order of Philip the Magnanimous , Grand Cross
- Large Mecklenburg Wendish Crown , Grand Cross
- Large Order of the Saxon-Weimar Falcon , Grand Cross
- Large Oldenburg House and Merit Order , Grand Cross
- Duke of Brunswick Order of Henry the Lion , Grand Cross
- Ducal Saxon-Ernestine House Order , Grand Cross
- Ducal Nassau Order of Merit, Commander
- Princely Waldeck Order of Merit, 1st class
- Royal Italian Order of the Crown , Commander, First Class
- Large Luxembourg Order of the Oak Crown , Grand Cross
- Kaiserl. Austrian Leopold Order , Grand Cross
- Kaiserl. Austrian Order of the Iron Crown , Grand Cross
- Persian Order of the Sun and Lions , Grand Cross
- Kaiserl. Russian Order of Stanislaus , Grand Cross
- Royal Swedish North Star Order , Grand Cross
family
From 1861 he was married to Marie von Grävenitz (* November 23, 1837; † October 3, 1873), she was the daughter of Ludwig Wilhelm von Grävenitz (* May 28, 1791; † December 2, 1841) and Freiin Marie Sophie Elisabeth Rüdt von Collenberg (born May 29, 1803: † February 8, 1873). The couple had the following offspring:
- Maria Luise (1862–1949) ∞ Adolf Marschall von Bieberstein (1842–1912)
- Friedrich Pleikardt August Ludwig (1863–1934) ∞ Raina Miltscheff b. Geroff (1876–1955)
literature
- Carl Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig Stocker : Family Chronicle of the Barons of Gemmingen , Heidelberg 1895, p. 96f.
- Walter von Hueck: Lineage of the Barons von Gemmingen , Limburg an der Lahn 1966
- Maria Heitland: Family chronicle of the barons of Gemmingen. Continuation of the chronicles from 1895 and 1925/26 , Elztal 1991, p. 46f.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gemmingen, Wilhelm Pleikard Ludwig von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German officer and Oberhofmarschall at the Baden court |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1823 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsruhe |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 29, 1903 |
| Place of death | Karlsruhe |