Ferdinand Eduard Von Stumm
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Ferdinand Eduard, Freiherr von Stumm (12 July 1843 – 10 May 1925), was a
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.


Early life

Stumm was born on 12 July 1843 in
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. His father was Karl Friedrich Stumm (1798–1848), who died by suicide 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. His elder brother was Carl Ferdinand Stumm (ennobled as Baron von Stumm-Halberg in 1888) and his younger brother was Hugo Rudolf Stumm (ennobled as Baron von Stumm-Ramholz in 1888).


Career

Stumm came from a family of entrepreneurs who bought the Neunkircher ironworks and shares in other ironworks in
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in 1806. While his older brother
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took over the management of the ironworks, Ferdinand benefited from the profits of the family business as a silent partner. As an officer, Stumm took part in the
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of 1864 and the
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of 1866. He was attached to the Prussian legation in
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in 1867, took part in the
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in 1868 and worked in the Prussian Foreign Ministry in
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under
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in 1869. After taking part in the
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of 1870, he served as Prussian ''
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'' to the
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in 1871. He was second and first secretary at the German missions in Paris,
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,
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,
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and
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. In 1883 he was appointed Prussian envoy in
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, imperial envoy in Copenhagen in 1885, envoy in 1887 then ambassador in Madrid in 1888. He was ennobled on 5 May 1888 by King Frederick III, and was made a privy councilor in 1892. In 1903 he took over the chairmanship of the supervisory board of the company Gebrüder Stumm GmbH, the 23rd largest company in the
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in 1907.


Land holdings

In 1873, Stumm bought
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in Rauischholzhausen (one of eleven villages in
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,
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district,
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) from
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. Stumm and his wife built several public buildings in Rauischholzhausen, including a church, a Protestant community center, a dairy and a retirement home. By 1908 Stumm was one of the 100 richest residents of Prussia and owned two manors: the Rauischholzhausen and
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in the district of
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, in
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, with .


Personal life

On 28 June 1879, Stumm married American heiress Pauline von Hoffmann (12 August 1858 – 9 October 1950), in
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. The younger daughter of Louis von Hoffmann, a wealthy New York banker who was one of the founders of the
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and his wife, Athenais von Hoffmann (née Grymes). Her elder sister,
Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès Medora de Vallombrosa, Marquise de Morès (''née'' von Hoffmann) (August 21, 1856 – 1921), was an American heiress who married Marquis de Morès. Early life Medora was the daughter of Louis A. von Hoffman (''Hoffmann'', with 2 ''n'' in Germa ...
married the
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. Together, they were the parents of: * Baron Ferdinand Carl von Stumm (1880–1954), a diplomat and entrepreneur, who married American heiress Constance Hoyt, daughter of Henry Hoyt Jr., in 1910. After her death in 1923, he married Baroness Vera von Wolff, daughter of Baron Nikolaus Boris von Wolff and former wife of Karl Gustav von
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. * Baroness Maria von Stumm (1882–1954), who married Prince Paul Hermann Karl Hubert von Hatzfeldt, son of the Ambassador to England
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in 1911. * Baron Herbert Wilhelm von Stumm (1885–1943), who married Alice Schuchard in 1913. * Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Stumm (1888–1946), who married Laurette Luise von
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. Baron von Stumm died on 10 May 1925 in
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.


Descendants

Through his eldest son Ferdinand, he was a grandfather of Nora von Stumm (1916–2000), who married Count Hyacinth Strachwitz.


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Stumm, Ferdinand Eduard von, Freiherr, German, 1843-1925
at the
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