Andreas Fjodorowitsch von Budberg-Bönninghausen

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Andrey Fedorovich Budberg completely Andreas Ludwig Karl Theodor von Budberg, Baron von Bönninghausen ( Russian Андрей Фёдорович Будберг ; January 8 * ^{. Jul} / 20th January  1817 ^greg. In Riga , † January 28 ^jul. / February 9  1881 ^greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian diplomat of German Baltic origin and envoy in Frankfurt , Berlin , Vienna and Paris .

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He came from a family that belonged to the knighthood of Livonia . His father was the Russian Colonel Theodor Otto von Budberg-Bönninghausen from the house of Widdrisch (1779–1840), his mother Helene Juliane, nee. von Budberg (1787–1856) from the Magnushof family, a daughter of Andreas von Budberg . He attended the knight and cathedral school in Riga and the university in St. Petersburg . In 1841 he entered the Russian diplomatic service.

In 1845 he was sent as legation secretary to the Russian embassy to the German Confederation and the Hessian Grand Duchies of Hesse-Kassel and Hesse-Darmstadt in Frankfurt am Main, where Peter von Oubril was envoy at that time . In 1846 he married Oubrils daughter Marie (1819-1913) and was after his death in 1848 chargé d'affaires in Frankfurt. In 1850 he was transferred in the same capacity to the Russian legation for Prussia, Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz in Berlin . In 1851 he was promoted to envoy. From 1852 to 1855 he was also responsible for the Kingdom of Hanover . In 1856 he went to the Imperial Royal Court in Vienna as an envoy . From 1858 to 1862 he was again in Berlin and then ambassador to Paris. At the beginning of 1868 there was an affair about a duel demand by Mr. von Meyendorff, a son of his predecessor Peter von Meyendorff . Budberg submitted his resignation and traveled to Munich, where he underwent the duel on April 14, 1868, in which he was slightly wounded.

Back in Russia, he was appointed a member of the State Council in May 1868 .

In 1872 he published the correspondence between Tsarina Katharina II and her envoy in Stockholm , his grandfather Andreas von Budberg (1750-1812).

Of his sons, Theodor von Budberg (1851–1916) held a diplomatic post in Vienna for almost twenty years, from where he was transferred to Stockholm in 1905 as envoy; From 1909 until the end of his life he was ambassador in Madrid. Alexander von Budberg (1853–1914) became chief conductor of the petition chancellery (1899–1913), state secretary and in 1913 chief hunter.

literature

• Edgar Franz: Philipp Franz von Siebold and Russian policy and action on opening Japan to the West in the middle of the nineteenth century. (Japan and Europe) Munich: Iudicium 2005 ISBN 9783891298718 , p. 104f.

Web links

• Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Andreas Fjodorowitsch von Budberg-Bönninghausen. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
• Erik Amburger database at the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For information on their relationships and the family as a whole, see Genealogical Manual of the Livonian Knighthood. Volume 2 ( digitized version), p. 643ff.
2. ^ Probably Rudolph von Meyendorff (1832-1883)
3. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) Baron Budberg. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 14559/1905, March 5, 1905, p. 8. bottom center (online at ANNO ). .

predecessor	Office	successor
Peter of Oubril	Russian chargé d'affaires at the German Confederation 1848–1850	Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov
Peter von Meyendorff Philipp von Brunnow	Russian envoy to Prussia 1851–1856 1858–1862	Philipp von Brunnow Paul von Oubril
Alexander Mikhailovich Gorchakov	Russian ambassador to Austria 1856–1858	Viktor Petrovich Balabin (from 1860)
Pavel Dmitrievich Kisselev	Russian ambassador to France 1862–1868	Ernst Johann von Stackelberg