Christian Høyer Bille

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Christian Høyer von Bille (born August 19, 1799 in Copenhagen , † June 19, 1853 in London ) was a Danish diplomat .

Life

Christian Høyer Bille belonged to the Danish noble family von Bille . His father was the naval officer Michael John Petronius Bille (1769-1845); his mother whose wife Maria Magdalena geb. Friedlieb (1780-1829). On March 8, 1844, he married Ida Marie nee at Hvedholm Palace . Brahe (1822-1902).

After completing a law degree, Bille entered the foreign service in 1823 and held various positions at the Foreign Ministry until 1825 and then at the Danish embassies : until 1827 as embassy attaché to the German Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main , until 1833 as embassy secretary at the Swedish court in Stockholm and until 1836 at the British court of St. James in London. In April 1836 he was promoted to chargé d'affaires, from November 1836 to December 1846 he was the Danish Minister-Resident in the Hanseatic cities based in Hamburg ; from 1847 to 1850 he served as the Danish envoy to the Swedish court in Stockholm.

The mission, which was successful in itself, was prematurely ended by the Schleswig-Holstein uprising, which developed into war in 1848 , and Bille was sent on special missions to Vienna and London . His contribution to the creation of the London Protocol on May 8, 1852 earned him the Grand Cross of the Order of Dannebrog . He died a year later in London.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c A. Thorsøe: Bille, Christian Høyer . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 2 : Beccau – Brandis . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1888, p. 218-220 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
  2. ^ Johann Martin Lappenberg : Journal of the Association for Hamburg History . Association for Hamburg History, Hamburg 1851, p. 431 f . ( books.google.de ).
  3. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . KG Saur, Munich 2012.
predecessor Office successor
Georg Wilhelm Bokelmann Danish envoy to the Hanseatic cities
1836–1846 		Bernhard Ernst von Bülow
Danish envoy to Sweden
1847–1850
personal data
SURNAME Bille, Christian Høyer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bille, Christian Høyer from (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1799
PLACE OF BIRTH Copenhagen
DATE OF DEATH June 19, 1853
Place of death London