August von Wächter

He had four older siblings,[1] including a brother, Baron Christoph Ludwig von Wächter, upon whose death in 1856, August was entailed Lord of the inherited estate in Lautenbach.

[2] His paternal grandparents were Chief Magistrate in Balingen and privy councilor, Friedrich Christoph von Wächter and Sibylle Regine Harpprecht.

In the run-up to the Sardinian War, Wächter had to be reminded by Foreign Minister Baron Karl Eugen von Hügel in Stuttgart to report more punctually and carefully on the policies of the French government.

Wächter wanted to retain the full scope of the tasks of the Foreign Ministry and those of the Württemberg legations and felt that he was in agreement with King Charles I on this issue, but not with the majority of the Deputies in the Second Chamber.

Josephine was an older sister of the Princess of Noer (née Mary Esther Lee),[9] the widow of Prince Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein, who later married Field Marshal Count Alfred von Waldersee,[10] in 1874.

[11] In the year of his marriage in 1855, August von Wächter worked to have the Lautenbacher court included in the Oedheim association to obtain citizenship there.

The von Wächter couple were known and valued in the Oberamt Neckarsulm and especially in Oedheim as generous patrons of numerous social institutions and foundations.