Hammerstein (1838-1904) had been mentored by Carl Hermann von Gloeden, and his forestry career led to him becoming politician of the German Conservative Party and editor-in-chief of the Kreuzzeitung. Īfter the death of his father, his mother married for a third time, to Wilhelm Joachim von Hammerstein in 1864. On October 10, 1856, Wilhelm von Gloeden was baptized in the church of Blankenhagen as a Protestant.
The law professor Friedrich Maassen and the Parchim mayor August Dreschler were his uncles on his mother's side the lawyer and conservative publicist Iwan von Gloeden was a uncle on his father's side. His mother, Charlotte, née Maaßen, had previously been married to Johann Magnus Wilhelm Raabe († 1848). His grandfather, Iwan von Glöden († 1825), was an officer who had served in Hamburg during the wars of liberation against Napoleon. He was the son of head forester Carl Hermann von Gloeden (1820–1862) and his wife Charlotte Maassen (1824–1901 from 1864 Charlotte von Hammerstein). Both claims currently do not have any documents to verify. Although Gloeden alleged he was a minor German aristocrat from Mecklenburg, the heirs of the baronial branch of the Gloeden family have always insisted that no such person existed in their family records and that his claim to a barony was without warrant and the barony became extinct in 1885 with the death of Baron Falko von Gloeden. Wilhelm von Gloeden's background is something of a mystery.
4 Other similar photographers at the time.3.1 Attitudes towards his work during his lifetime and later.