Lithograph of Baron von Hügel, by Christian Pfann, 1852

Baron Ernest Albert von Hügel (30 September 1803 – 31 December 1865), was a Royal Württemberg Chamberlain and Royal Cavalry Captain who was Lord of Eschenau.

Early life

Born as a member of the noble Hügel family, Albert was the eldest child of the Württemberg General and Minister of War Baron Ernst von Hügel (1774–1849),[1] and the former Baroness Charlotte Wilhelmine Schott von Schottenstein.[2] From his parents' marriage, his younger brother was Karl Eugen von Hügel, the Foreign Minister of Württemberg from 1855 to 1864.[3][4] After his mother's death in 1805, his father married Baroness Luise Ernestine von Gemmingen-Guttenberg in 1806. They had several children, including Baroness Marie von Hügel, Baron Ludwig von Hügel, Baron Julius von Hügel, and Baron Philipp von Hügel. She was a daughter of Baron Ludwig Eberhard von Gemmingen-Guttenberg and Baroness Louise Auguste von Saint-André. After Luise Ernestine died in 1834, his father married her younger sister, Baroness Elisabeth Sophie (née von Gemmingen-Guttenberg) von Cotta, widow of publisher and industrial pioneer Johann Friedrich Cotta, in 1834.[5]

Career

Schloss Eschenau

At the time of his marriage in 1831, Hügel was a Captain of Cavalry in the Württemberg Army, and became co-owner of the former Imperial Knight estate of Eschenau and was consequently entered in the kingdom's knightly register.[6]

In 1851 Hügel built the manor of Waldhof in a secluded forest south east of Eschenau on the district border with Bretzfeld. In the run-up to the construction of the Kocherbahn, the railway line from Heilbronn to Hall, he is said to have exerted significant influence with his connections in Stuttgart so that the railway line ran through Eschenau, and thus the Weinsberg valley, instead of Neckarsulm and the northern Kocher valley.[7][8]

In 1861 Albert von Hügel was awarded the Knight of the Order of the Württemberg Crown. At that time he was a Colonel and Commander of the 7th Infantry Regiment.[9]

Personal life

In 1831 Hügel was married to Marie Louise Elisabethe Freiin von Uexküll-Gyllenband (1811–1862), owner of the manor of Eschenau. She was a daughter of August Heinrich Friedrich von Uexküll-Gyllenband and Baroness Charlotte Maria von Gemmingen (the elder sister of his step-mothers).[10] Before their divorce in 1843, they were the parents of three children:

After their divorce, his wife married the Dr. Theobald Kerner) a year later.[13] Hügel died on 31 December 1865.[14]

References

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  1. ↑ Corti, Conte Egon Caesar (1927). Der aufstieg des hauses Rothschild, 1770-1830 (in German). Insel-verlag. p. 439. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  2. ↑ Württembergische Jahrbücher für Statistik und Landeskunde (in German). W. Kohlhammer. 1879. p. 44. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  3. ↑ Grant, Steven A.; Brown, John Halit (1981). The Russian Empire and Soviet Union: A Guide to Manuscripts and Archival Materials in the United States. G.K. Hall. p. 351. ISBN 978-0-8161-1300-2.
  4. ↑ Karlowich, Robert A. (12 July 2019). A Guide to Scholarly Resources on the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union in the New York Metropolitan Area. Routledge. p. 44. ISBN 978-1-315-49075-5. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  5. ↑ Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der freiherrlichen Häuser (in German). Perthes. 1895. pp. 429–430. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  6. ↑ Mayer, Gerhard (March 2020). N equals 1: Single Case Studies in Anomalistics. LIT Verlag Münster. p. 169. ISBN 978-3-643-91123-0. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  7. ↑ Kieser, Dietrich Georg; Carus, Carl Gustav; Behn, Wilhelm Friedrich Georg; Knoblauch, Carl Hermann; Fritsch, Karl Wilhelm Georg Freiherr von; Wangerin, Albert (1898). Leopoldina (in German). E. Blochmann & Sohn. p. 18. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  8. ↑ Württembergische Jahrbücher für Statistik und Landeskunde: 1869 (in German). Kohlhammer. 1870. p. 203. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  9. ↑ Theil, Bernhard (27 May 2010). Zur Geschichte der Familie Hügel beim Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg. State Archive of Baden-Württemberg. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  10. ↑ Bergmann-Törner, Corinna; Brandt, Diane Coleman; Harmeyer, Jutta; Wulbusch, Petra (1999). Therese Huber Briefe | Band 1: 1764–1803 (in German). Max Niemeyer Verlag. p. 839. ISBN 978-3-11-093195-2. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
  11. ↑ Gothaischer Hofkalender: genealogisches Taschenbuch der fürstlichen Häuser (in German). Perthes. 1890. pp. 375–376.
  12. ↑ Feichtinger, Johannes; Bhatti, Anil; Hülmbauer, Cornelia (2 March 2020). How to Write the Global History of Knowledge-Making: Interaction, Circulation and the Transgression of Cultural Difference. Springer Nature. p. 67. ISBN 978-3-030-37922-3. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  13. ↑ Cast, Fr (1839). Süddeutscher Adelsheros ... In drei Sectionen: Historisches und genealogisches Adelsbuch des Königreichs Württemberg. 1 (in German). J. A. Gärtner. p. 241. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  14. ↑ Mörike, Eduard (1900). Werke und Briefe (in German). Klett. p. 85. ISBN 978-3-608-33192-9. Retrieved 21 April 2023.
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