Maximilian von Gagern

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Max von Gagern

Baron Maximilian Joseph Ludwig von Gagern (born March 25, 1810 in Weilburg , † October 17, 1889 in Vienna ) was a German- Austrian liberal diplomat and politician . The member of the Frankfurt National Assembly was from August 1848 to May 1849 Undersecretary of State in the Reich Foreign Ministry . His brother was Heinrich von Gagern , the President of the National Assembly and Reich Minister-President.

family

Maximilian came from the von Gagern noble family , he was one of six sons of the politician, statesman and cultural historian Hans Christoph Ernst Freiherr von Gagern . His brother Friedrich von Gagern fell as General of the German Confederation in 1848 while advancing on the Hecker platoon in the battle on the Scheideck . His brother Heinrich von Gagern was one of the most popular German politicians at the time of the March Revolution and in 1848 Prime Minister of the Grand Duchy of Hesse , President of the Frankfurt National Assembly and finally Prime Minister.

biography

Gagern studied law and philosophy from 1826 to 1829 at the University of Heidelberg , the University of Utrecht and the University of Göttingen . Like his brothers, he was a member of the General German Burschenschaft and in 1826 became a member of the Old Heidelberg Burschenschaft . 1837 doctorate him University Hall to Dr. phil.

After studying Gagern was 1829 Attaché in the Dutch embassy in Paris and even joined in the same year to the court by The Hague before he joined the Dutch army in 1830 and to 1833 as part of the Belgian uprisings in the General Staff of Bernard of Weimar was active . In 1833 Gagern resigned from the Dutch civil service and worked as a private person in journalistic and academic activities, including as editor of the Augsburger Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1837 he became a private lecturer in history in Bonn .

In 1840 Gagern entered the Nassau civil service, first as a legation councilor, then from 1842 as a ministerial advisor for foreign affairs and a legation advisor in the State Ministry. Among other things, he was active in special missions in Saint Petersburg and Vienna. In 1844 Gagern was appointed Secret Legation Councilor. In the same year he was appointed Minister Extraordinary for Belgium and the Netherlands.

After the outbreak of the March Revolution in 1848, Gagern became a shop steward for Nassau and the Duchy of Braunschweig in the Committee of Seventeen and coordinated the relevant interests of the southwest German principalities as chairman of the circular embassy of the southwest German states to reform the German Confederation . He took part in the pre-parliament in the Paulskirche in April and moved to Frankfurt am Main in May 1848 , where he represented the second Nassau constituency in Montabaur as a member of the Frankfurt National Assembly from May 18, 1848 to May 20, 1849 .

Like his brother Heinrich, he was a member of the casino parliamentary group there and supported its policy, among other things as the second chairman of the constitutional committee . From August 9, 1848 to May 20, 1849 he was also active as Undersecretary of State in the Reich Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Provisional Central Authority , and in August 1848 he was Reich Commissioner of Central Authority in Schleswig-Holstein .

In July 1849 Gagern joined the editorial board of the Deutsche Zeitung and in 1850 was a member of the Volkshaus of the Erfurt Union Parliament . After the temporary end of the German unification efforts, he returned to the Nassau civil service and worked in Wiesbaden as a ministerial advisor in the Ministry of the Interior until his dismissal in 1854. In 1855 Gagern entered the Austrian civil service. There he worked in various functions in the Foreign Ministry before he retired in 1873, when he was finally appointed to the Real Secret Council .

From 1881 until his death he was a conservative member of the manor of the Austrian Imperial Council .

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SURNAME Gagern, Maximilian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gagern, Maximilian Joseph Ludwig von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian liberal diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH Weilburg
DATE OF DEATH October 17, 1889
Place of death Vienna