Robert von Keudell

Robert von Keudell (seated, right) in the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, Prussian headquarters in Versailles

Robert von Keudell (born February 27, 1824 in Königsberg (Prussia) ; † April 25/26, 1903 in Königsberg in the Neumark ) was a German diplomat .

origin

His parents were the Prussian major Leopold von Keudell (1769–1831) and his wife Wilhelmine von Hartmann (1789–1848). His maternal grandfather was Major General Gottfried Ludwig Matthias von Hartmann .

Life

Keudell studied law at the Albertus University in Königsberg and had been a member of Hochhemia since 1841 . In 1842 he became a member of the Albertina Königsberg student union and in 1885 he was a founding member of the Cheruscia Königsberg fraternity .

Keudell was an excellent pianist and admirer of Robert Schumann , with whom he corresponded from 1847 to 1853. His two wives were also talented pianists. His second wife played with Joseph Joachim and Anton Rubinstein, among others .

From 1872 to 1873 he was the German envoy at the Sublime Porte in Constantinople . In 1873 he became envoy to the Quirinal in Rome and - as a result of the embassy being upgraded to an embassy from 1876 - German ambassador to Italy (until 1887). As a member of the Free Conservative Party , he sat in the German Reichstag from 1871/72 and from 1890 to 1893 . From 1870 to 1872 and again from 1889 to 1893 he was a member of the Prussian House of Representatives . He was a close friend of the German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck .

family

Robert von Keudell married Hedwig Louise von Patow (1842–1882), a daughter of the politician Robert von Patow , on February 1, 1870 in Berlin . After the death of his first wife, he married the thirty-seven years younger Alexandra von Grünhof (1861–1933), daughter of Duke Ernst von Württemberg (1807–1868) from his morganatic marriage to Natascha Eschborn von Grünhof (1829–1905) and thus granddaughter of Duke Alexander Friedrich Karl of Württemberg (1771–1833). They had three children together:

Walter von Keudell (1884–1973)
Otto Viktor von Keudell (1887–1972)
Hedwig von Keudell (* 1891)

Fonts

Prince and Princess Bismarck. Memories from the years 1846 to 1872 . Berlin 1901.

Individual evidence

↑ Götz von Selle : History of the Albertus University in Königsberg in Prussia. 2., ext. Edition, Würzburg 1956, p. 314
↑ Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 212 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 216-219 and pp. 160-163.

literature

Günter Richter: Keudell, Robert v .. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 560 f. ( Digitized version ).
Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Heidelberg 1999, p. 83
Robert and Clara Schumann's correspondence with correspondents in Berlin 1832 to 1883 , ed. by Klaus Martin Kopitz , Eva Katharina Klein and Thomas Synofzik (= Schumann-Briefedition , Series II, Volume 17), Cologne: Dohr 2015, pp. 307-317, ISBN 978-3-86846-028-5

Web links

Robert von Keudell in the database of members of the Reichstag
Robert von Keudell's biography . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich von Keyserlingk-Rautenburg	German ambassador to Constantinople 1872–1873	Friedrich von Eichmann
Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade	German ambassador in Rome 1873–1887	Bernhard von Bülow

personal data
SURNAME	Keudell, Robert von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH	February 27, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH	Königsberg (Prussia)
DATE OF DEATH	April 25, 1903 or April 26, 1903
Place of death	Koenigsberg in the Neumark

[1] Götz von Selle : History of the Albertus University in Königsberg in Prussia. 2., ext. Edition, Würzburg 1956, p. 314

[2] Bernhard Mann (edit.): Biographical manual for the Prussian House of Representatives. 1867-1918. Collaboration with Martin Doerry , Cornelia Rauh and Thomas Kühne. Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, p. 212 (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, vol. 3); for the election results see Thomas Kühne: Handbook of elections to the Prussian House of Representatives 1867–1918. Election results, election alliances and election candidates (= handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 6). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5182-3 , pp. 216-219 and pp. 160-163.