Lieutenant General Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Freiherr von Stockhorn

[BlackcowboyBS]

I would like to present this not quite common certificate. A friend, but very withdrawn collector, has recently acquired this certificate and when I visited him last weekend, he showed it to me. With his permission, I show here the certificate as well as the matching breast star. We see here the deed of a day order from the Grand Duke Karl Leopold Friedrich of Baden to his army corps. The text reads as follows:

 

"To the regiments and detachments of troops of the Army Corps.
ACC No. 39 The following Most High Order is hereby announced to the Army Corps. Karlsruhe, October 3, 1841 the Commander of the Grand Ducal Army Corps ...
No. 49 I grant the Lieutenant General and Divisionary of the Infantry von Stockhorn permission to accept and wear the Grand Cross of the Ducal House Order of Henry the Lion awarded to him by His Serene Highness the Duke of Brunswick. Karlsruhe, October 2, 1841
Leopold"

 

I have been allowed to place a matching breast star of the HdL, which dates from 1840 to 1855 and is also in the possession of the above collector, on the certificate for a more vivid illustration. The recipient was Lieutenant General Carl Ludwig Wilhelm Christian Heinrich Franz Freiherr von Stockhorn(er). 

 

About him I could find the following career data:
- Son of Christian Gottlieb August Reinhard Stockhorner von Starein (1726-1807) and his wife Marie Antoinette, born Rohdis von Tunderfeld.
- last heir of the II. (older) line of the baronial family Stockhorner von Starein (line extinct with him in the male line)
- from 1788 in the military service of Baden (first Junker with the Leibregiment), 1804 Major, 1806 Lieutenant Colonel, 1809 Colonel and Commander of the Leibgrenadier Guard
- November 1810 to 1812 artistic director of the Grand Ducal Baden Court Theater in Karlsruhe
- since July 13, 1811 married to (Elisabeth) Auguste (Margarethe), born Countess of Leiningen-Heidesheim-Falkenburg (born September 13, 1790)
- from 1812 Major General and City Commander of Karlsruhe
- 1813 Commander of the former Life Regiment
- 1814 Lieutenant General
- November 1815 to February 1817 Commanding General of the First Military Command
- lastly commander of the third line infantry regiment and ruling general in Mannheim (with the rights of a governor)

 

If I look at the order books in the Landesarchiv Wolfenbüttel, I find the following entry:

 

84th Appointment of September 30, 1841.
A total of 2 Grand Crosses are awarded to the Royal Prussian General of Infantry von Natzmer as well as the Grand Ducal Baden Lieutenant General Freiherr von Stockhorn, there were no more awards on this day within the 84th appointment of members of the Ducal Brunswick Order of Merit of Henry the Lion! (Note that in the above document the Baden officials begin the popular error of demoting the Order of Merit to a House Order!)

 

If one looks in the Hof und Staatshandbuch of 1844, then von Stockhorn appears here for the last time as Grand Cross, in 1845 his name has disappeared, which would come with the usual delay in the transmission of death data with GL Carl von Stockhorn in 1843.

In another order book, which was kept later, von Stockhorn is no longer listed, this book was also started after 1844 and lists only the living members of the order, this shows that one should always try to evaluate all sources when researching in the archives, because if one does not know that there are different types and in some award lists the deceased are already no longer listed, mistakes happen quickly.

 

Please, note how fast all this happened, on September 30, 1841 the conferment by Duke Wilhelm took place (in Brunswick?), on October 2 the acceptance as well as the carrying permission by Grand Duke Leopold and on October 3 the announcement to the army corps (in Karlsruhe)!

 

The Hof und Staatshandbuch von Baden shows that my assignment to Carl Freiherr von Stockhorn(er) is correct, he also wears the following orders:

Baden House Order of Loyalty
Grand Cross of the Military Carl-Friedrich Order of Merit
Grand Cross of the Zähringer Lion
Baden Military Service Cross for Officers
Baden Military Service Award
Grand Cross K. k. Austrian Order of the Iron Crown
Grand Cross K. k. Austrian Order of Leopold
Prussia Red Eagle Order 1st Class
Württemberg Military Order of Merit Commander's Cross on Blue Ribbon
Hanover Grand Cross of the Order of Guelph
Grand Ducal Hessian Ludwigs Order Grand Cross
Brunswick Grand Cross of Henry the Lion
French Legion of Honor Knight's Cross

 

So a very interesting and highly decorated person, yet I have a few questions for the forum and hope for answers:

Does anyone have or know if the award certificate to Lieutenant General von Stockhorn for the Grand Cross HdL still exists and if so where is it located? My collector colleague would be interested in acquiring it.
Do you have certificates etc. what you want to show here and can? Would be quite nice if we could get at least digitally here a reunion of the estate!

 

PS: In the court and state handbooks of the Kingdom of Hanover of 1844, however, I do not find any award to the Baden Lieutenant General Carl von Stockhorn, there are only two awards of Grand Crosses to Badeners: 1829 the margrave Wilhelm von Baden and 1830 the Grand Duke Leopold von Baden. It may be, of course, that the Hanoverians were so quick and have already deleted the deceased, but even in the book of 1837 I do not find von Stockhorn! So there is still a need for clarification. He is also not to be found among the commanders, in case the Baden HStHb would have made a mistake in the class.

 

 

Edited April 1, 2022 by BlackcowboyBS

[BlackcowboyBS]

see additional entry in the hof and staats handbuch from Hanover 1843

 

[BlackcowboyBS]

Another interesting fact, that might not be well known in the collectors scene. The ribbon of the military merit order of the kingdom of Wuerttemberg changed on 23.rd of September 1818 from a yellow with black side stripes to a dark blue one. In §. 5 of the new statutes it was written down, that active officers had to change from the old version to the new design and ribbon. 

 

Lieutenant General von Stockhorn did recieved his commanders croos of the MMO Wuerttemberg before 1818 but wore it untill 1840, when he recieved the new one but still the same class. Here you can see the wearing permission from 1840 granting him the right to wear the new commanders cross of the MMO from Wuerttemberg. isn't it crazy that one needs another permission for just wearing a newer version of an old order which he was allowed to wear for more than 22 years? I think this is really fascinating, what about you?

 

 

Edited April 3, 2022 by BlackcowboyBS