2 CHARLES ANTHONY GOESSMANN 



Goessmann of Fulda and later of Fritzlar, grandfather 

 of Charles Anthony, was a judge of the higher court 

 of Electoral Hesse, lay administrator of the diocese of 

 Fulda, and a man of much influence in his day. He 

 was on intimate terms of friendship with Georg Fried- 

 rich Heinrich, reigning Prince of Waldeck-Pyrmont, 

 great-grandfather of the present Queen of Holland, 

 and the little summer-house in his garden at Fritzlar, 

 where the Prince and he played their weekly game of 

 chess and drank their coffee, may still be seen. 



The wife of Judge Goessmann was Fraulein Kaiser, 

 a woman of rare mental vigour and brilliancy. Of her 

 three brothers, one established the chair of social law 

 (now political economy) at the University of Graz; 

 another became vicar-general of the diocese of Fulda; 

 and a third was an officer in the imperial army. The 

 latter, wounded at the battle of Wagram, was raised 

 by the Emperor to honorary life-membership in the 

 Noble Imperial Guard of Austria as a reward for singu- 

 lar bravery and courage. The three daughters of Judge 

 Goessmann were known to their contemporaries as the 

 'three beautiful sisters.' Two of them became ladies- 

 in-waiting at the court of the Electoral Princess of 

 Hesse-Cassel, and married respectively Baron von 

 Mumm and Baron von Borke, officers in the German 

 army. 



Heinrich Goessmann, son of Joseph and father of 

 Charles Anthony, was born 30 March 1799, at Fritzlar, 

 Hesse-Cassel, and passed much of his life there. In his 

 youth, with his elder brother Philip, he served as a 

 volunteer in the war against Napoleon in 1815. A 



