Alexander von Dörnberg (politician)

Alexander Freiherr von Dörnberg (born October 24, 1801 in Hanau ; † May 6, 1860 in Göttingen ) was a German diplomat and politician from the Dörnberg family .

Life

Von Dörnberg was the son of the Prussian chamberlain and chief steward Friedrich Karl von Dörnberg (1754-1804) and his wife Henriette von Geuder called Pagensteiner (1767-1844). In 1824 he married Wilhelmine Buderus von Carlshausen (1801-1825), the daughter of the war council and chamber president Karl Friedrich von Buderus . The marriage produced a son.

He attended high school in Hanau and studied law in Göttingen and Marburg from 1819 to 1823. In 1823 he was trainee lawyer at the Hanau High Court and from 1827 to 1829 attaché at the electoral embassy in Paris. Between 1829 and 1834 he was on leave of his own accord and studied history for two semesters at Heidelberg University. From 1834 to 1839 he was legation secretary at the Hessian embassy in Vienna, from 1838 with the title of legation councilor. From 1839 to 1840 he was chargé d'affaires in Vienna and from 1840 to 1842 in Munich. From 1842 to 1846 he served as the extraordinary envoy and authorized representative of the elector in Berlin. Since 1844 he had the title of a secret legation councilor.

In 1846 he was first entrusted with the oversight of the Foreign Ministry and then regular Foreign Minister. The March Revolution led to the formation of a March government under Bernhard Eberhard with Wilhelm Schenck zu Schweinsberg as Foreign Minister and von Dörnberg was put on hold. In 1853 he retired.

From 1833 to 1835 he was a member of the Hessian Estates Assembly for the knighthood of the Schwalm district.

Awards

In 1833 he was appointed chamberlain for the Electorate of Hesse . He was holder of the Commander's Cross 2nd Class of the House Order of the Golden Lion , Knight of the Order of St. John and holder of the Grand Cross of the Belgian Order of Leopold .

literature

• Karl-Heinz-Nickel, Harald Schmidt, Florian Tennstedt , Heide Wunder : short biographies . In: Kassel as the city of lawyers and the courts in their thousand-year history. Edited by Georg Wannagat , Heymann, Cologne a. a., 1990, ISBN 978-3-452-21555-0 , pp. 395–396, (PDF file; 12.8 MB)