Wilhelm von Spitzemberg
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Baron Wilhelm Hugo von Spitzemberg (19 January 1825 – 4 September 1888) was a German soldier who became a favourite of King Charles I of Württemberg.
Spitzemberg was born on 19 January 1825 in Stuttgart in the Kingdom of Württemberg.[1] He was the eldest of four sons of Baron Louis François-Xavier Antoine Hugo von Spitzemberg (1781–1864), who was originally from Saint-Dié-des-Vosges, and Baroness Elisabeth Hugo von Massenbach (1803–1857). His brother was the Württemberg Ambassador in St. Petersburg, Baron Karl Hugo von Spitzemberg,[2] who married Hildegard, Baroness von Varnbüler (a daughter of Minister Karl von Varnbüler und zu Hemmingen).[3] His father was a Royal Württemberg Colonel-Chamberlain, Lieutenant-General and Master of the Court Hunters who was ennobled in 1833.[1]
His paternal grandparents were Lorraine officer Louis-Charles Toussaint Hugo de Spitzemberg, a Major in the service of the Grand Duke of Tuscany and the former Anne Marie Catherine de Bazelaire de Lesseux. His maternal grandparents were Baron Eberhard von Massenbach and Baroness Caroline von Seckendorff. His nephew, Lothar Hugo von Spitzemberg, was chamberlain to Empress Augusta Victoria and a Prussian politician.[4]
