Adolf Ludwig Karl von Platen-Hallermund

Adolf Ludwig Karl Graf von Platen-Hallermund (born December 10, 1814 in Hanover , † December 27, 1889 in Dresden ) was a German minister of state .

origin

His parents were Count Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Platen-Hallermund (* November 7, 1795; † January 13, 1873) and his wife, Countess Julie Marianna Charlotte von Hardenberg (* October 22, 1788; † August 18, 1833). He was a brother of the Hanoverian postmaster general Karl von Platen Hallermund (1810-1887), the theater manager Julius von Platen and Georg von Platen-Hallermund (1827-1881) and uncle of the poet and officer August von Platen (1796-1835)

Career

Adolf Ludwig Karl studied law at the University of Göttingen and the University of Geneva . After he worked in the office of Celle and the Landdrostei Hanover , he switched to the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Hanover . In the Hanoverian service he was Legation Councilor in Brussels from 1845 , from 1848 to 1852 Hanoverian envoy in Vienna , then from 1852 to 1855 chargé d'affaires in Paris and finally from 1855 to 1866 Minister for Foreign Affairs and as such a member of the State Council .

During the German War of 1866, von Platen-Hallermund sided with Prussia in the military conflict between Austria and Prussia, first for and then against the participation of the Kingdom of Hanover. After the battle of Langensalza , the count went into exile in Austria with the - now former - King George V of Hanover , only to go to Dresden in 1872 . In Prussia he was then convicted of supporting the Guelph Legion .

See also

• Counts of Platen
• Gut Weißenhaus

literature

• Dieter Brosius:  Platen-Hallermund, Adolf Ludwig Karl Reichsgraf. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 511 ( digitized version ).
• Klaus Mlynek : Platen-Hallermund, Adolf Ludwig Karl Graf von. In: Klaus Mlynek, Waldemar R. Röhrbein (eds.) U. a .: City Lexicon Hanover . From the beginning to the present. Schlütersche, Hannover 2009, ISBN 978-3-89993-662-9 , p. 503.
• Wilhelm Rothert (Ed.): Hannoversche Biographie. Volume 2: In the old Kingdom of Hanover, 1814–1866. Hanover 1914, p. 567 f.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 7, p. 687.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Klaus Mlynek : Platen-Hallermund, Adolf Ludwig Karl Graf von. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover . P. 503.
2. ^ Genealogical yearbook of the German nobility for 1846. P. 154 ( books.google.de ).