Ernst von Bodenhausen

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Ernst Ludwig Carl Mordian von Bodenhausen , also Carl Bodo von Bodenhausen (born January 21, 1785 on Gut Sensenstein ; † September 13, 1854 in Hanover ) was a German diplomat in the service of the Kingdom of Hanover.

Life

Ernst von Bodenhausen was the son of the major and legation councilor Dietrich Ludwig von Bodenhausen from his first marriage. He enrolled on October 22, 1802 to study cameralia at the University of Göttingen. His studies in the Hanover Club including his participation in the country team organized move to Hann. Munden 1806 is to be preserved pedigree documented. During the French period, Bodenhausen became a chamberlain at the court of Jérôme Bonaparte in Kassel. On March 6, 1812, he and his two younger brothers received the Westphalian elevation to the baron class.

In the autumn of 1813 he became an orderly officer of the Swedish Crown Prince Bernadotte and after the First Peace of Paris in 1814 changed to Hanoverian services, albeit with difficulties. At the Congress of Vienna he took over as attache of Count Munster part. With support from General Carl von Alten , he made a career in the war chancellery of the Kingdom of Hanover from 1821 . He was a landowner on Alt-Bodenhausen in Hessen and in Hanover's Niedergandern . As the Royal Hanoverian Privy War Councilor, he represented the interests of the Kingdom of Hanover diplomatically from 1830 to 1849 as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister at the Imperial Austrian Court in Vienna , where he resided in Herrengasse . At the end of his career he became an eye-witness of the revolution of 1848/1849 in the Austrian Empire and of the end of the Metternich system . He spent his old age in Hanover.

Awards

literature

  • Burghard Freiherr von Cramm : Diary of an Ordonnanzoffizier [von Bodenhausen] from 1812-1813 and about his later state services until 1848. Braunschweig: Westermann 1912 ( digitized version )
  • Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 211
  • Gunnar Henry Caddick: The Hannöversche Landsmannschaft at the University of Göttingen from 1737 - 1809 , Göttingen 2009, p. 111–114 and no. 00887 (p. 251)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ So consistently in the Court and State Manual for the Kingdom of Hanover
  2. ↑ The archive is in handwritten reproduction in the manuscript department of the SUB Göttingen , signature: Cod. Ms. O. Deneke 454
  3. ^ Directory of confirmations of nobility in the former Königr. Westphalia. In: Der deutsche Herold 6 (1875), p. 132
personal data
SURNAME Bodenhausen, Ernst von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bodenhausen, Ernst Ludwig Carl Mordian von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat in the service of the Kingdom of Hanover
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1785
PLACE OF BIRTH at Gut Sensenstein
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1854
Place of death Hanover