Ferdinand von Galen

Ferdinand Karl Hubert Graf von Galen (born January 7, 1803 in Münster ; † July 28, 1881 there ) was a Prussian diplomat and politician.

Ferdinand and his brother Matthias in a painting by Johann Christoph Rincklake

Life

Ferdinand von Galen grew since 1810 under the tutelage of the family von Ketteler on Castle Harkotten on. He studied law in Göttingen and Heidelberg from 1818 to 1822 . After a two-year trip through Europe, he entered the Prussian diplomatic service in 1824. As chargé d'affaires at the German embassy in Brussels, he refused to defend the arrest of the Archbishop of Cologne in public in Belgium in 1837, which led to his dismissal from the diplomatic service. After a job with the district government in Münster in 1840, he returned to the diplomatic service in 1841. In the following two decades he was, among other things, the Prussian envoy in Stockholm , Kassel and Madrid .

After his retirement in 1863 he belonged to the Prussian manor house until his death . In 1867 Ferdinand von Galen was a member of the constituent Reichstag of the North German Confederation for the constituency Arnsberg 8 ( Lippstadt , Brilon ). In the Reichstag he belonged to the free conservative faction .

literature

Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867–1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 .
Friedrich Keinemann: Effects of the Prussian-Austrian War in 1866 on the attitude of the Catholic nobility in the province of Westphalia (PDF; 7.6 MB). In: Westfälische Zeitschrift 119 (1969), pp. 411-422 (excerpts from the memoirs of Galens with reflections on Bismarck's unification policy).

Web links

Biography of Ferdinand Graf-Comte Galen . In: Heinrich Best : database of the members of the Reichstag of the Empire 1867/71 to 1918 (Biorab - Kaiserreich)

Individual evidence

^ Carl Heiner Beusch: Noble class politics in Vormärz. Johann Wilhelm Graf von Mirbach-Harff (1784–1849) (= Historia profana et ecclesiastica , 3). Lit Verlag, Münster 2001 (Diss. University of Cologne , 1999), ISBN 3-8258-4377-7 , p. 470, footnote 1873 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
↑ 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 , Berlin 2001.
↑ Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 133, short biography p. 405.

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Alexander von Arnim	royal Prussian envoy in Darmstadt 1834–1838	Heinrich Alexander von Redern
Adolf von Brockhausen	royal Prussian envoy in Stockholm 1843–1844	Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade
Karl Friedrich von Savigny	royal Prussian envoy in Kassel 1844–1849	Hermann von Thile
Julius von Canitz and Dallwitz	royal Prussian envoy in Dresden 1850–1852	Heinrich Alexander von Redern
Atanazy Raczyński	royal Prussian envoy in Madrid 1853–1864	Georg von Werthern

personal data
SURNAME	Galen, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Galen, Ferdinand Karl Hubert Graf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Prussian diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 7, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	Muenster
DATE OF DEATH	July 28, 1881
Place of death	Muenster

[1] Carl Heiner Beusch: Noble class politics in Vormärz. Johann Wilhelm Graf von Mirbach-Harff (1784–1849) (= Historia profana et ecclesiastica , 3). Lit Verlag, Münster 2001 (Diss. University of Cologne , 1999), ISBN 3-8258-4377-7 , p. 470, footnote 1873 ( limited preview in the Google book search).

[2] 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 , Berlin 2001.

[3] Bernd Haunfelder , Klaus Erich Pollmann : Reichstag of the North German Confederation 1867-1870. Historical photographs and biographical handbook (= photo documents on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 2). Droste, Düsseldorf 1989, ISBN 3-7700-5151-3 , photo p. 133, short biography p. 405.