Ferdinand Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg

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Family coat of arms of the Counts of Degenfeld-Schonburg

Count Ferdinand Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg (* July 21, 1802 in Eislingen , † June 8, 1876 in Munich ) was a count and a royal Württemberg diplomat.

Descent and origin

He came from the noble family of the Counts of Degenfeld-Schonburg , his great-grandfather, the Prussian War Minister Christoph Martin II. Von Degenfeld (1689–1762), was the nephew of Marie Luise von Degenfeld (1634–1677), Raugräfin and morganatic wife of the Palatinate Elector Karl I. Ludwig .

Ferdinand Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg was born as the son of Count Gustav Eugen Friedrich Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg (1764-1807) and his wife Maria Anna von Berlichingen , a direct descendant of the knight Götz von Berlichingen with the Iron Hand. The father's brother Friedrich Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg (1769–1848) was an Austrian major general .

Ferdinand Christoph's brother Götz Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg (1806–1895) had Ernestine b. Married von Varnbuler (1813–1862), daughter of the Württemberg Finance Minister Karl von Varnbuler (1776–1832) and sister of State Minister Friedrich Karl Gottlob von Varnbuler (1809–1889). In January 1853, as a Württemberg colonel and personal adjutant to King Wilhelm I of Württemberg , he converted from Protestantism to Catholicism, lost his court position and finally retired into private life. Ferdinand Christoph Eberhard von Degenfeld-Schonburg (1835-1892), one of his sons, became Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal and educator of the heir to the throne Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Este .

Live and act

Count Ferdinand Christoph studied law in Tübingen . During his studies in 1820 he became a member of the Germania Tübingen fraternity . On April 21, 1823, he moved to the Georg-August University of Göttingen and became active in the Corps Bado-Württembergia. He entered the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Württemberg . Until 1843 he worked as a legation secretary at the Vienna embassy of his country. From 1844 to 1868 he served as envoy and plenipotentiary minister of Württemberg, in the Kingdom of Bavaria , to Munich . In addition, the count held the offices of a Württemberg State Councilor and a royal chamberlain . Ferdinand Christoph von Degenfeld-Schonburg is described as "extraordinarily active and agile" . In Munich he had a variety of personal relationships that he knew how to use cleverly as sources of information for his office. He was friends with the Saxon ambassador Carl Gustav Adolph von Bose . In 1853 he married Anna Katharina Wanner and joined the Catholic Church in the same year.

Count Degenfeld-Schonburg wore the Grand Cross of the Württemberg Order of Frederick , the Commander's Cross of the Order of the Württemberg Crown , the Grand Cross of the Bavarian Order of St. Michael, the Grand Cross of the Saxon Order of Albrecht and the Second Class Cross of the Russian Order of St. Stanislaus .

literature

  • Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2001, p. 425, ISBN 3110956845 ; (Digital scan)
  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 1: A-E. Winter, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-8253-0339-X , p. 187.
  • Publications of the Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Wuerttemberg: Research , Volumes 22-25, Commission for Historical Regional Studies in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Kohlhammer Verlag, 1963, p. 24 u. 62; (Detail scans)
  • Friedrich Nippold : Which roads lead to Rome? Historical illumination of the Roman illusions about the success of propaganda. Heidelberg, 1869, p. 87; (Digital scan)
  • Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the count's houses. Volume 47, pp. 196, 1874; (Digital scan)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Friedrich Wolfgang Götz von Berlichingen-Rossach: History of the knight Götz von Berlichingen with the iron hand , p. 654, footnote 13, Brockhaus Verlag, Leipzig, 1861; (Digital scan)
  2. ↑ Constantin von Wurzbach : Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Österreich , Volume 3, p. 203, Vienna, 1858; (Digital scan)
  3. ^ Friedrich Cast: Historical and genealogical book of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden , 2nd section, 1st volume, p. 72, Stuttgart, 1845; (Digital scan)
  4. ^ Friedrich Cast: Süddeutscher Adelsheros , Volume 1, Issue 1, Stuttgart, 1839, p. 371; (Digital scan)
  5. ^ Horst Bernhardi: Corps Bado-Württembergia zu Göttingen 1824 to 1829 . Once and Now, Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, special issue 1960, pp. 28–35, here p. 33
  6. ↑ Court and State Schematism of the Austrian Empire , Part 1, Vienna, 1841, p. 243 u. 244; (Digital scan)
  7. ↑ Markus Mosslang: British Envoys to Germany 1816–1866, Volume 3 (1848–1850), Cambridge University Press, 2006, p. 465, ISBN 0521872529 ; (Digital scan)
  8. ^ Carl Gustav Adolph von Bose in Stadtwiki Dresden
  9. ^ David August Rosenthal : Convertite pictures from the nineteenth century , 1st volume, 2nd section, p. 411, Hurter Verlag, Schaffhausen, 1871; (Digital scan)
  10. ^ Court and State Manual of the Kingdom of Bavaria , Munich, 1867, p. 206; (Digital scan)
personal data
SURNAME Degenfeld-Schonburg, Ferdinand Christoph von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Count, Württemberg diplomat and envoy, convert to Catholicism
DATE OF BIRTH July 21, 1802
PLACE OF BIRTH Eislingen
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1876
Place of death Munich