Anton Wilhelm von Cetto

Anton Wilhelm Freiherr von Cetto

Anton Wilhelm Freiherr von Cetto (born January 26, 1835 in Vienna , † February 15, 1906 in Rome ) was a Bavarian officer and diplomat .

origin

Anton Wilhelm von Cetto was born as the son of the Bavarian ambassador in London, August von Cetto (1794–1879) and his wife Elisabeth Catharine, born in England, from England. Burrows (1804-1880). He was a grandson of the diplomat Anton von Cetto (1756–1847) coming from Zweibrücken .

Life

Cetto initially embarked on a military career. In 1853 he was a second lieutenant and adjutant of King Max II. , In 1863 in the same position lieutenant .

Then he joined the Bavarian diplomatic service. In 1866 Anton Wilhelm von Cetto became legation secretary , in 1872 legation councilor of the Bavarian legation to the Holy See . From 1883 until his death, the nobleman served as the Bavarian envoy and authorized minister to the Holy See, in 1890 he became a state councilor, and in 1892 he received the title of excellence .

family

From 1862 onwards Anton Wilhelm von Cetto was married to Karoline von Pfeffel, daughter of Baron Karl von Pfeffel and his wife Karoline nee. von Rottenburg (1805–1872), a natural child of Prince Paul von Württemberg . Karl von Pfeffel's father, Christian Hubert von Pfeffel (1765–1834) served as the Bavarian chargé d'affaires in London and envoy in Paris. A sister of Cetto's wife had married Friedrich Joseph Fabrizio Evaristo von Pocci (1838–1899), the son of the artist Franz Graf von Pocci (1807–1876) who became famous as the “Punch and Judy” . The wife's other sister was married to Carl von Tauffkirchen-Guttenburg , who was also the Bavarian envoy to the Holy See until 1874.

literature

• NDB data page for the person
• Rosenheimer Anzeiger. No. 38, dated February 17, 1906, obituary, (digitized)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad. Walter de Gruyter Verlag, 2001, ISBN 3-11-095684-5 , p. 40. (Digitalscan)
2. ↑ Charlotte Lady Blennerhassett: Correspondence 1865–1886. (= Correspondence 1820–1890 . Volume 4). Bavarian Academy of Sciences , 1963, ISBN 3-406-10346-4 , p. 251. (detail scan)
3. ^ Miscellanea Bavarica Monacensia. Volumes 144–145, City Archives Munich, 1987, p. 118, footnote 3. (detail scan)
4. ^ Yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese e. V. Volume 37, Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese, 2003, p. 136, footnote 114. (detail scan)
5. ^ Genealogical website about Karl von Pfeffel and family

predecessor	Office	successor
Ludwig von Paumgarten-Frauenstein	Bavarian envoy to the Holy See 1883–1906	Georg von und zu Guttenberg