Carl Ferdinand, Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg (né Stumm; 30 March 1836 – 8 March 1901) was a Prussian mining industrialist and Free Conservative politician. As a Privy Councilor of Commerce, baron, member of the Prussian House of Representatives, member of the Reichstag and founding chairman of the German Reich Party, he was one of the most influential men in Prussia and one of the richest people in the German Empire.
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Early life
Stumm was born on 30 March 1836 at his grandfather's palace on Ludwigsplatz, Saarbrücken in the Prussian Rhine Province. He was the eldest son of Marie Louise Böcking and Carl Friedrich Stumm (1798–1848), who killed himself during the economic crisis of the 1840s and who had run the family company as sole owner since the 1835 death of his grandfather, Friedrich Philipp Stumm. His younger brothers were diplomat Ferdinand Eduard Stumm (ennobled as Baron von Stumm in 1888) and Hugo Rudolf Stumm (ennobled as Baron von Stumm-Ramholz in 1888).
His paternal grandparents were Friedrich Philipp Stumm and Maria Elisabeth Geib. His maternal grandparents were Bernhard Richard Böcking and Catherine Friederike Christiane Claus.