Adolf von Taube

Family coat of arms of the noble family "von Taube" (Baltic Wappenbuch 1882)

Karl Friedrich Gustav Adolf Taube von Kudding , Count von Taube (born July 9, 1810 in Stuttgart , † September 14, 1889 in Kreuth ) was chamberlain and brief foreign minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg .

Career

Adolf von Taube was the son of Count Ludwig von Taube († 1816) and Wilhelmine, born Countess von Zeppelin († 1872). The half-orphan Adolf von Taube spent his school days from 1819 in the Gottstatt private school in the Swiss canton of Bern . He stayed there for a total of eight years and only returned to Württemberg to attend the final class of the grammar school in Stuttgart. From 1828 Taube studied law at the University of Tübingen . During his studies, he switched to Heidelberg University for one semester . During his studies in 1828 he became a member of the Tübingen Comment Bureau . On October 27, 1838, he joined the Württemberg judicial service as an actuary at the Künzelsau Higher Regional Court . In 1838 he came as an actuary to the Higher Regional Court in Ludwigsburg and was transferred to the Criminal Police Office in Stuttgart in 1841.

In 1844 he was appointed secretary to the Privy Council . In 1847 Taube was given the title and rank of councilor and in December 1849 was appointed royal chamberlain (addressed as Excellency ). In 1851 he accompanied Baron von Neurath to the Dresden Ministerial Conference and was promoted to lecturing council in the Foreign Ministry on November 6, 1853. At the same time Taube became a member of the fief council. As a lecturing councilor in the Foreign Ministry, he successively served Ministers Neurath, Linden , Huegel and Varnbuler . From autumn 1853 to spring 1859, among other things, he was responsible for negotiations with Austria regarding the structuring of relations with the German Customs Union and, after 1859, for discussions on improving the Federal War Constitution and implementing general reforms in the German Confederation . Taube was from 1859 in the rank of secret legation councilor and later a director. From 1859 he also headed the Secret House and State Archives and in 1862 also took over the management of the fief council. On July 1, 1864, Count von Taube became First Chamberlain in the service of the new Queen Olga , in 1866 Oberhofmeister and on 6 March 1870 Obersthofmeister with the associated title of excellence. After 1864 political events were determined by the wars of unification and the conclusion of the alliance for protection and defiance . On August 31, 1870, King Karl entrusted him with the management of the Foreign Ministry, which went hand in hand with the responsibility for the conclusion of the November treaties, although the associated negotiations were mainly led by Hermann von Mittnacht . Under the impression of the death of his two sons in the Franco-German War , Adolf von Taube asked for retirement on January 9, 1871. This was granted to him with the award of the title of Privy Councilor. His successor as head of the Foreign Ministry in Stuttgart was the long-time ambassador in Paris, August von Wächter . Adolf von Taube remained in the service of the Queen until October 1, 1883. From 1872 to 1885, Count von Taube also held the Chancellery.

family

Adolf von Taube was a Protestant and on December 20, 1846 married Friederike Freiin von Varnbuler, a daughter of the former Finance Minister Varnbuler and sister of the Foreign Minister of the same name, Karl von Varnbuler . The marriage produced two sons named Erich and Axel . Both fell on December 2, 1870 at the Battle of Champigny . From August 1, 1874, Count von Taube spent most of the summer in his specially built house in Kreuth. As he got older, he mostly spent the winter months in Merano , as the climate in Stuttgart no longer seemed bearable for him. He visited Württemberg for the last time in the spring of 1884.

Honors

In 1865, Adolf Graf von Taube was awarded the First Class Commentary Cross of the Order of Frederick, and in 1877 he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown . He was also the owner of the Grand Crosses of Baden , Prussia , Saxony-Weimar , the Netherlands , Austria , Italy , Russia and Sweden .

literature

• Schwäbische Kronik , No. 239, October 8, 1889, p. 1965
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume 1: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 11-12.

Web links

• Works by and about Adolf von Taube  in the German Digital Library
• Entry on Adolf von Taube in Kalliope

Individual evidence

1. ^ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1866, ZDB -ID 204742-1 , p. 59.
2. ↑ Royal Württemberg Court and State Handbook 1886, p. 23

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl von Varnbuler	Württemberg Minister of Foreign Affairs 1870–1871	August von Wächter