Albert von Hügel

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]

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:

• Baron Alexander Ernest August von Hügel (b. 1832)
• Baroness Anna Louise Charlotte Mathilde von Hügel (1833–1915), who married Hungarian-German Count Alfred Ferdinand Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg.
• Count Ernest Ludwig Paul Carl von Hügel (1835–1897), who married Princess Amalie of Teck, a daughter of Duke Alexander of Württemberg and Countess Claudine von Hohenstein. Amalie's brother was Francis, Duke of Teck, who married Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridge (a first cousin of Queen Victoria), and was the father of Queen Mary, the consort of King George V.^[11] They lived at Schloss Reinthal [de] near Graz and Paul was elevated to the rank of Count in 1879.^[12]

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