Carl von Tauffkirchen-Guttenburg

Count Carl von Tauffkirchen zu Guttenburg (born July 7, 1826 in Munich , † April 26, 1895 in Stuttgart ) was a Bavarian diplomat .

Life

Tauffkirchen was brought up in the royal pagerie . He studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Ruprecht Karls University in Heidelberg . In 1846 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg . After completing his studies, he was a judge and public prosecutor in Munich and Bamberg, among others. At the end of 1866 he switched to the diplomatic service and was initially employed in the Ministry of the Interior under Prince Clovis zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst . In the course of the Luxembourg crisis, he conducted negotiations with Berlin and Vienna on behalf of the Bavarian government. He later became the Bavarian envoy to Saint Petersburg and - at the time of the First Vatican Council - to the Holy See . During the Franco-Prussian War he served as civil commissioner in Nancy and Reims . He then returned to Rome and was also accredited as envoy for the Kingdom of Prussia after the establishment of the German Empire . He conducted negotiations with the Vatican because of its behavior in the Kulturkampf , but ultimately could not achieve a positive result. In 1874 he became the Bavarian ambassador to the court in Stuttgart, where he stayed until his death.

His brother-in-law Anton Wilhelm von Cetto was also the Bavarian envoy to the Holy See.

See also

• List of Bavarian ambassadors to the Holy See
• List of Bavarian envoys in Russia
• List of Bavarian ambassadors in Württemberg

literature

• Academic monthly books 12 (1895/96), pp. 93f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 69 , 434

predecessor	Office	successor
Maximilian Joseph Pergler from Perglas	Bavarian envoy to Russia 1867–1869	Friedrich Truchseß von Wetzhausen
Joseph of Sigmund	Bavarian envoy to the Holy See 1869–1874	Ludwig von Paumgarten-Frauenstein
Rudolf von Gasser	Bavarian envoy in Württemberg 1874–1895	Kurt von der Pfordten