Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg
Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg Baron von Stumm-Halberg | |
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Born | Carl Ferdinand Stumm 30 March 1836 |
Died | 8 March 1901 Saarbrücken, German Empire | (aged 64)
Children | 5 |
Parent(s) | Carl Friedrich Stumm Marie Louise Böcking |
Relatives | Hugo Rudolf von Stumm (brother) Ferdinand von Stumm (brother) Ferdinand Carl von Stumm (nephew) |
Awards | Iron Cross Order of the Red Eagle Order of the Crown House Order of Hohenzollern Order of Leopold |
Carl Ferdinand, Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg (
Early life
Stumm was born on 30 March 1836 at his grandfather's palace on Ludwigsplatz, Saarbrücken in the Prussian Rhine Province.[1] He was the eldest son of Marie Louise Böcking and Carl Friedrich Stumm (1798–1848), who killed himself during the economic crisis of the 1840s and who had run the family company as sole owner since the 1835 death of his grandfather, Friedrich Philipp Stumm.[2] His younger brothers were diplomat Ferdinand Eduard Stumm (ennobled as Baron von Stumm in 1888) and Hugo Rudolf Stumm (ennobled as Baron von Stumm-Ramholz in 1888).[3]
His paternal grandparents were Friedrich Philipp Stumm and Maria Elisabeth Geib.[4] His maternal grandparents were Bernhard Richard Böcking and Catherine Friederike Christiane Claus.[4]
Stumm attended secondary school in Mainz and Siegen and after graduating in 1854, he completed an apprenticeship in the family's Neunkirchen ironworks. He then studied law, political science and iron metallurgy in Bonn and Berlin until 1858, when he spent a year in the military with the Rhine Provinces Uhlan Regiment, No. 7. Without completing his degree, he returned to the Saar region in 1858 and took over the management of the Neunkirchen ironworks, which his uncle Karl Böcking had run since his father's suicide in 1848. After his departure in 1871, he alone managed the family's business, in which three brothers were involved after the sisters were paid off. He took part in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 as an officer, from which he returned home as a captain, awarded the Iron Cross.[4]
Career
Under Stumm's leadership, the Neunkirchen steelworks continuously expanded, including the construction of the first Thomas steelworks in the Saar region in 1882. In addition, he acquired
Political career
In 1867 he was elected to the
Bismarck is said to have called him "King Stumm" and Friedrich Naumann called him "the Sheik of Saarabia" because of his wealth and demeanor.
After he was ennobled as a Baron von Stumm-Halberg in 1888 (he rejected his first ennobling in 1868),[7] he returned to politics in 1889 and sat in the Reichstag as a member of the Free Conservative faction until his death. Due to his friendship with King Wilhelm II, Stumm held great influence on government policy in the 1890s, especially social policy.[4] In addition to the Iron Cross, he was awarded the Order of the Crown (2nd Class), Order of the Red Eagle (2nd Class), House Order of Hohenzollern (Commander's Cross of Honour), and the Belgian Order of Leopold (Grand Officer).[4]
Schloss Halberg
The family initially lived in the Stumm manor house on Saarbrücker Straße in Neunkirchen (which was destroyed in 1945) in the immediate vicinity of the family's factory. In 1875, Stumm acquired land on the Halberg in Saarbrücken and between 1877 and 1880, he built an elaborate
Personal life
Stumm was married to his second cousin, Ida Charlotte Böcking (1839–1918), a daughter of Heinrich Rudolf Böcking and Louise Caroline Hildebrand. Her grandfather, Heinrich Böcking, was a mining adviser and mayor in Saarbrücken. Together, they were the parents of:[1]
- Baroness Ida Henriette Charlotte von Stumm-Halberg (1861–1916), who married Prussian Lt. Gen. Conrad von Schubert,[10] brother of Gen. Richard von Schubert.[11]
- Baroness Elisabeth Maria Braun von Stumm-Halberg (1863–1911)[1]
- Baroness Helene Caroline von Stumm-Halberg (1865–1933), who married chamberlain Waldemar Anno Otto Kurt von Heimburg.[12]
- Rudolf Karl Heinrich Stumm (1874–1875), who died young.[1]
- Baroness Bertha von Stumm-Halberg (1876–1949), who married diplomat Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten.[1] They divorced in 1907 and she married landowner Adalbert von Francken-Sierstorpff in 1912.[13]
Baron von Stumm-Halberg died on 8 March 1901 at Schloss Halberg in Saarbrücken.[14] Upon his death, his daughter Bertha inherited the Königklinger Island near Eltville (which he had acquired in 1888).
References
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- ^ "Biography – Carl Ferdinand Stumm (1836–1901)". www.erih.net. European Route of Industrial Heritage. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "BARON VON STUMM DEAD.; German Diplomat, Who Married Miss Constance Hoyt, Dies at 82". The New York Times. 14 May 1925. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ a b c d e f g Banken, Ralf. "Stumm-Halberg, Carl Ferdinand Freiherr von (seit 1888) - Deutsche Biographie". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
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- ^ Stumm-Halberg, Carl Ferdinand freiherr von (1909). Die reden des freiherrn Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg (in German). O. Elsner. p. 198. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ Burke, Edmund (1902). Annual Register. Longmans, Green. p. 116. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Rundweg "Historischer Halberg"". www.visitsaarland.co.uk. Tourismus Zentrale Saarland. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Schubert, Conrad von (seit 1899)". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "History – Weingut Maximin Grünhaus". maximingruenhaus.de. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Heimburg, Waldemar Anno Otto Kurt von". www.deutsche-biographie.de (in German). Deutsche Biographie. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ISBN 978-3-11-106770-4. Retrieved 11 January 2024.
- ^ "Baron von Stumm-Halberg Dead". The New York Times. March 10, 1901. Retrieved 10 January 2024.