Gustav Schenk zu Schweinsberg

Gustav Ferdinand Carl Johann Ernst Ludwig Freiherr von Schenk zu Schweinsberg (16 September 1842 - 25 July 1922[1]) was a German minor nobleman, regional historian (specialising in the history of the Grand Duchy of Hesse) and archivist.

[2] He was born in Kassel to First Lieutenant (later Royal-Prussian Major General) Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Freiherr von Schenk zu Schweinsberg (died 5 October 1877, Kassel) and his wife Tusnelda von Eschwege (died 1886).

After Hesse was defeated in the Austro-Prussian War in 1866, he renounced an offer to transfer to the Prussian Army and instead began studying law and history at the University of Giessen.

He remained in Giessen as a Regierungsakzessist in Hesse's civil service, before moving to the Duchy's state archive at Darmstadt in the same position in 1875.

Gustav Schenk zu Schweinsberg married Emilie Anna Johanna Emma Ernestine von Grolman (born 11 June 1852 in Giessen), daughter of Ludwig von Grolman, a Hofgerichtsrat.