Ferdinand von Mensshengen

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Ferdinand von Mensshengen (1843) lithograph by J. Kriehuber
Family coat of arms , from: Tyroff: Book of Arms of the Austrian Monarchy , 1831–1868

Baron Ferdinand von Mensshengen (born March 27, 1801 ; † July 8, 1885 ) was an Austrian diplomat at the time of the Restoration.

Life

Origin and family

Ferdinand von Mensshengen came from a family of barons originally resident in Kurmainz and later in Lower Austria . He was born as the son of Council Ministers Franz Xaver von Mensshengen (1767–1804) and his wife Octavia von Sala; his older brother was kk Hofrat Franz von Mensshengen (1798–1890), long-time emperor. Treasurer of the Military Maria Theresa Order .

Career

Mensshengen first worked in the Austrian diplomatic service as a legation councilor at the Austrian parliamentary legation , then also as plenipotentiary minister at the ducal-Nassau court of Wiesbaden and at the free city of Frankfurt am Main . On September 8, 1828, he married Charlotte b. Baroness von Syberg zu Sümmern , daughter of the former chamberlain of the Electorate of Cologne , Nikolaus von Syberg zu Sümmern (1754–1832). Due to the revolutions of 1848/1849 von Mensshengen took over the office of Austrian representative at the provisional central authority on July 13th , until he was replaced by Anton von Schmerling on December 29th, 1848 .

Under Foreign Minister Karl Ferdinand von Buol-Schauenstein , he was envoy to the three free Hanseatic cities in Hamburg from 1853 , and then from 1856 envoy to the Swiss Confederation in Bern . In the course of 1859 von Mensshengen was embroiled in an international crisis under the now-designated Foreign Minister Bernhard von Rechberg : the then Swiss National Councilor Jakob Stämpfli revealed to him in January 1859 that Switzerland would occupy the neutralized Savoy if it were to lead to an Austro-French war come. His French counterpart Louis Félix Étienne de Turgot , who was assessed as insecure and nervous by other Bern diplomats, suspected v. Mensshengen behind this anti-French mood in the otherwise neutral Switzerland at the time, for which v. Mensshengen received the sympathy of other diplomats.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heraldisch-Genealogischer Verein Adler: Heraldisch-genealogische Zeitschrift: Organ d. Heraldic-Genealogical Association "Adler" in Vienna , Volume 2, Braumüller, Vienna 1872, p. 147 u. 148 (digital scan)
  2. ^ A b 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, p. 296
  3. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German Constitutional History since 1789: The Struggle for Unity and Freedom, 1830-1850 , Volume 2, Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1988, p. 799, ISBN 3-170-097-415
  4. ↑ a b Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (-Hungary) 1720-1920 , Böhlau, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-205-072-693
  5. ^ Ferdinand von Mensshengen in the Dodis database of diplomatic documents in Switzerland
  6. ↑ Swiss Federal Archives, Digital Official Publications, Document No. 333, pp. 655-657 , Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland, May 9, 1859
  7. ^ Albert Schoop: Johann Konrad Kern : The legation in Paris and the relations between Switzerland and France 1857 to 1883 , Volume 2, Huber, Frauenfeld 1968, p. 81
predecessor Office successor
Franz von Lützow Austrian envoy to the Hanseatic cities
1853–1856 		Heinrich of Testa
Alois Karl Kübau from Kübeck Austrian envoy to Switzerland
1856–1867 		Nikolaus von Pottenburg ( Gt )
personal data
SURNAME Mensshengen, Ferdinand von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1801
DATE OF DEATH July 8, 1885