Ferdinand Carl von Stumm explained

Ferdinand Carl, Freiherr von Stumm (28 June 1880 – 24 March 1954) was a German diplomat and industrialist.

Early life

Stumm was born on 28 June 1880 in Saint Petersburg, Russia, where his father was secretary of the German legation.[1] He was the eldest son of the diplomat and industrialist Ferdinand Eduard von Stumm (1843–1925)[2] and the American heiress, Pauline von Hoffmann (1858–1950).[3] His younger sister, Baroness Maria von Stumm, married Prince Paul Hermann Karl Hubert von Hatzfeldt (son of the Ambassador to England Paul von Hatzfeldt).[4] [5] His younger brothers were Baron Herbert Wilhelm von Stumm (who married Alice Schuchard),[1] and Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Stumm (who married Laurette Luise von Stülpnagel).[6]

His maternal grandparents were Athenais (Grymes) von Hoffmann and Louis von Hoffmann, a wealthy New York banker who was one of the founders of the Knickerbocker Club.[7] His maternal aunt, Medora von Hoffmann married the Marquis de Mores.[1] His paternal grandfather was Carl Friedrich Stumm and his uncle was Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg.[8]

After graduating from high school in Kassel, he studied law and political science at the Universities of Oxford, Geneva, Strasbourg and Bonn as well as the Cologne Business School.

Career

In 1901 he became a member of the German Student Corps called the Corps Palaio-Alsatia in Strasbourg. After completing his studies, he worked as an attaché in the Foreign Office. From 1905 to 1917 as embassy or embassy secretary in Washington, D.C., Constantinople, Belgrade and Rome, among others. He was friendly with Lord Haldane while he was British Secretary of State for War.[9] Until the end of 1918 he was head of Department IV (News) in the Foreign Office with the rank of Ministerial Director.[10] [11] In 1907, while Councillor of the German Embassy, Baron von Stumm was blamed for a candid interview with German Emperor Wilhelm II published in Hulton's Daily Dispatch (of which the authenticity was questioned). Von Stumm "had to leave the hunting trip he was on with Reid to manage the ensuing 'mess'" as relayed by American Ambassador Reid to President Theodore Roosevelt.[12]

In 1919 he resigned from the diplomatic service as a legation councilor and from then on lived in Neunkirchen so he could oversee his board membership in the family-owned Stumm group. He was a member of the supervisory board of the family ironworks, Neunkircher Eisenwerke AG, Homburger Eisenwerk AG and Heydt's Bank AG in Berlin, as well as a member of the board of the coal mine Zeche Minister Achenbach.[13]

After his father's death in 1925, he became the owner of Schloss Rauischholzhausen, the 700ha manor in Ebsdorfergrund, Marburg-Biedenkopf, Hesse (which his father had acquired in 1873). In 1928 he left Neunkirchen and from then on lived in Ascona, Locarno (on the shore of Lake Maggiore in Switzerland) or at Schloss Rauischholzhausen.[13] In 1938 and 1941 he sold the Rauischholzhausen estate, schloss and park.[14]

Personal life

On 30 March 1910, Baron von Stumm married American heiress Constance Hoyt (20 May 1889 – 30 July 1923), daughter of Solicitor General Henry Hoyt Jr. and Anne McMichael (a granddaughter of Philadelphia Mayor Morton McMichael).[15] Her paternal grandfather was Pennsylvania Governor Henry M. Hoyt. Their wedding was attended by then President of the United States William Howard Taft.[16] Before her death in 1923, they were the parents of:[17]

After the death of his first wife,[19] he married Vera von Platen (16 August 1900 – 9 February 1952, Baroness von Wolff), daughter of Baron Nikolaus Boris von Wolff,[20] and former wife of Karl Gustav von Platen, on 17 May 1926.[21] From her first marriage, she had a son, Dr. Alexander-Christoph von Platen. Together, they were the parents of one son:

Baron von Stumm died on 24 March 1954 in Grafenaschau near Murnau.[11]

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  1. Book: Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der freiherrlichen Häuser: zugleich Adelsmatrikel der im Ehrenschutzbunde des Deutschen Adels vereinigten Verbande . 1919 . Julius Perthes. . 964 . 10 January 2024 . de.
  2. News: BARON VON STUMM DEAD.; German Diplomat, Who Married Miss Constance Hoyt, Dies at 82. . 28 January 2022 . . 14 May 1925.
  3. News: MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.; A YOUNG GERMAN DIPLOMAT WEDS AND CHANGES HIS RELIGIOUS FAITH. . 10 January 2024 . . 17 Jul 1879 . en.
  4. News: Times . Marconi Transatlantic Wireless Telegraph To the New York . BETROTHED TO A PRINCE.; Fraulein von Stumm to Wed Prince Herman von Hatzfeldt. . 24 January 2022 . . 19 February 1911.
  5. News: Diplomat . A. Veteran . SOME EUROPEAN NOBLES THAT ARE ALMOST AMERICANS; The Family Histories of Prince Hermann Hatzfeldt and Baroness Stumm, Who Are Soon to Wed, Show Their Close Relation to This Country. . 28 January 2022 . . 12 March 1911.
  6. Book: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels . 1973 . C.A. Starke . 369 . 10 January 2024 . de.
  7. Web site: Louis A. Von Hoffmann, Athenais Von Hoffmann, Medora, Marquise de Mores and her children Louis and Athenais group portrait . www.digitalhorizonsonline.org . . 19 October 2020 . en.
  8. Web site: Biography – Carl Ferdinand Stumm (1836–1901) . www.erih.net . . 11 January 2024.
  9. News: The German Embassy. . 11 January 2024 . The North Mail . 7 Oct 1912 . en.
  10. News: VON STUMM OUSTED IN POLITICAL ROW; Failure to Answer Gerard Said Not to be Real Reason for Kaiser's Action. . 10 January 2024 . . 28 August 1917 . en.
  11. Book: Prüfer . Curt . Germany's Covert War in the Middle East: Espionage, Propaganda and Diplomacy in World War I . 11 December 2017 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 978-1-78673-318-4 . 214 . 11 January 2024 . en.
  12. Web site: TR Center - Letter from Whitelaw Reid to Theodore Roosevelt . www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org . Theodore Roosevelt Digital Library. Dickinson State University. . 11 January 2024 . Theodore Roosevelt Papers. Library of Congress Manuscript Division.
  13. Book: Volz . Robert . Reichshandbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft. Das Handbuch d. Persönlichkeiten in Wort u. Bild. (Hauptschriftl.: Robert Volz). . 1930 . Dt. Wirtschaftsverl . Berlin . 1877 . 11 January 2024 . de.
  14. Web site: History, Architecture, Gardens . www.uni-giessen.de . . 10 January 2024 . en.
  15. News: HENRY M. HOYT DEAD; AIDED KNOX GREATLY; State Department Counselor Stricken While Negotiating for Canadian Reciprocity. HIS FINAL ILLNESS SHORT Had Served with Distinction as Solicitor General, and a New Office Was Created for Him. . 28 January 2022 . . 21 November 1910.
  16. News: Times . Special to The New York . PRESIDENT ATTENDS MISS HOYT'S WEDDING; Sees Daughter of Counsellor of State Department Wedded to Fredinand von Stumm. MISS BROWNSON A BRIDE Youngest Daughter of Rear Admiral Married to Lieut. Com. T. C. Hart--Admiral and Mrs. Dewey Guests. . 28 January 2022 . . 31 March 1910.
  17. Book: Wenzel . George . Deutscher Wirtschaftsfürer . 1929 . Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt . 2249 . 28 January 2022 . de.
  18. Book: Bagdonas . Raymond . The Devil's General: The Life of Hyazinth Graf Strachwitz, "The Panzer Graf" . 19 January 2014 . Casemate . 978-1-61200-223-1 . 28 January 2022 . en.
  19. News: Baroness Ferdinand von Stumm. . 10 January 2024 . . August 3, 1923 . en.
  20. Book: Taroutina . Maria . Leigh . Allison . Russian Orientalism in a global context: Hybridity, encounter, and representation, 1740–1940 . 27 June 2023 . . 978-1-5261-6622-7 . 84 . 11 January 2024 . en.
  21. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, vol. 16, 1957, p. 483.
  22. Book: Genealogisches Handbuch des in Bayern immatrikulierten Adels . 1967 . Degener . 226 . 11 January 2024 . de.
  23. Web site: Provenance Stumm, Nikolaus and Ursula von . www.nga.gov . . 11 January 2024.
  24. Book: Who's who in the Arts . 1975 . Who's Who-Book & Pub. . 978-3-921220-22-1 . 281 . 11 January 2024 . en.

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