Editing Ferdinand von Zeppelin (section)

==Family and personal life==
[[File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-1986-128-10, Isabella Gräfin von Zeppelin.jpg|thumb|upright|Isabella Gräfin von Zeppelin]]
Ferdinand was the scion of a {{ill|Zeppelin (noble family)|de|Zeppelin (Adelsgeschlecht)|lt=noble family}}. [[Zepelin]], the family's eponymous hometown, is a small community outside the town of [[Bützow]], in [[Mecklenburg]].
[[File:Ferdinand von Zeppelin in June 1863 detail- Virginia, Fairfax, a group of officers at Headquarters, Army of the Potomac, Fairfax Courthouse. Studying the art of... - NARA - 533319 (cropped).jpg|thumb|308x308px|Ferdinand von Zeppelin at the [[Army of the Potomac|Army of the Potomac's]] Headquarters, [[Fairfax, Virginia|Fairfax Courthouse, Virginia]], June 1863 by [[Alexander Gardner (photographer)|Alexander Gardner]]]]
Ferdinand was the son of [[Württemberg]] Minister and [[Hofmarschall]] Friedrich Jerôme Wilhelm Karl Graf von Zeppelin (1807–1886) and his wife Amélie Françoise Pauline (born Macaire d'Hogguer) (1816–1852). Ferdinand spent his childhood with his sister and brother at their Girsberg manor near [[Konstanz]], where he was educated by private tutors.<ref name="uk">{{cite web |title=Zeppelin Biographie |url=http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Geschichte/Zeppelin/english/bio.htm |access-date=4 April 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220123354/http://www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Geschichte/Zeppelin/english/bio.htm |archive-date=20 February 2009  }}</ref> Ferdinand married Isabella Freiin von Wolff in Berlin. She was from the house of Alt-Schwanenburg (located in the present-day town of [[Gulbene]] in Latvia, then part of [[Governorate of Livonia|Livonia]]).<ref name="roots">{{cite web |title=RootsWeb: GEN-DE-L Re: Zeppelin and Brandenstein family |url=http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/GEN-DE/2002-05/1020898890 |access-date=4 April 2009 }}</ref> They had a daughter, Helene (Hella) von Zeppelin (1879–1967) who in 1909 married Graf Alexander von Brandenstein-Zeppelin (1881–1949).

Ferdinand had a nephew {{interlanguage link|Baron Max von Gemmingen|de|Max von Gemmingen (1862–1924)}}, who volunteered at the start of the First World War, after he was past military age, to become general staff officer assigned to the military airship [[LZ 12 Sachsen]].<ref name=Lehmann>[[#Lehmann|Lehmann]]</ref>