August von der Goltz (statesman)
August Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von der Goltz (born July 20, 1765 in Dresden , † January 17, 1832 in Berlin ) was a Prussian statesman .
origin
August came from the von der Goltz family . His parents were the Electoral Saxon colonel, director of the fire society and landscape fund Carl Friedrich Graf von der Goltz and his wife Anna Maria, née von Rummel (1735–1809). The Russian field marshal lieutenant Heinrich von der Goltz was his great-grandfather.
Life
Goltz studied in Leipzig and Frankfurt (Oder) . In 1787 he entered the Prussian civil service and successively held the legation posts in Poland , Denmark , Sweden and Russia .
In 1807 he followed Tsar Alexander I to the headquarters in East Prussia and, when Napoleon refused to include Minister Karl August von Hardenberg in the peace negotiations in Tilsit , took over the portfolio of foreigners, whereupon he and Count Friedrich Adolf von Kalckreuth the Tilsit Made peace .
In 1808 he attended the Congress of Erfurt as Prussian plenipotentiary, where he obtained a reduction in contribution payments to France by 20 million francs. Even under Hardenberg, he asserted himself in his post and concluded the treaties with France in 1812. He acquired the Würben monastery estate near Schweidnitz in Silesia, which was secularized by Prussia in 1810. At the beginning of the war of liberation he remained in Berlin as President of the Government Commission, after the First Peace of Paris he became Chief Court Marshal, in 1816 envoy to the Bundestag and in 1817 Council of State. Recalled by the Bundestag in 1824 , he rejoined the Court as Oberhofmarschall.
family
Since 1796 he was married to Juliane Louise von Schack , widow of Heinrich Siegmund von Czettritz and Neuhaus († 1787). The couple had the following children:
- Auguste Maria Amalie Louise (1798–1837) ⚭ 1815 Mortimer von Maltzahn (1793–1843), Prussian chamberlain and envoy in Vienna
- Reinhold (1801-1802)
literature
- Paul Bailleu : Goltz, August Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von der . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 9, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, pp. 351-353.
- Klaus Peter Hoepke: Goltz, August Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von der. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 628 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about August von der Goltz in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ New necrology of the Germans . 10th year, 1st part. Weimar 1834, p. 50. ( Online )
- ^ New necrology of the Germans . 15th year, 2nd part. Weimar 1839, p. 1224. ( Online )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Goltz, August von der |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Goltz, August Friedrich Graf von der (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1765 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 17, 1832 |
| Place of death | Berlin |