Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff

Ferdinand Fürst zu Trauttmansdorff, lithograph by Friedrich Lieder , s. a.

Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff , Prince of the Reich von und zu Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg since 1805 (born January 2, 1749 in Vienna ; † August 28, 1827 there ) was an Austrian diplomat and politician, and 1800/01 Foreign Minister of the Habsburg Empire .

Life

Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff was a member of the noble Trauttmansdorff family and heir to the family fortune after the early death of his older brother. After a brief activity in the Lower Austrian Lieutenancy, he joined the emperor's diplomatic service in 1774. In 1783 he became the representative of Emperor Joseph II in the Franconian Empire . He married Marie Caroline von Colloredo (1752-1832) in 1772 , and the marriage had five children.

Trauttmansdorff served as the Bohemian envoy to the Holy Roman Empire in Regensburg from 1780 to 1785 and from 1785 to 1787 as the Austrian envoy to the court of the Elector of Mainz . From 1787 to 1789 he was an authorized minister and president of the gubernium of the Austrian Netherlands . His initial willingness to concession could not eliminate the discontent in the province. There were major conflicts above all with regard to church policy measures and restrictions in self-administration in connection with the Josephine reforms . On December 12, 1789, Trauttmansdorff had to flee from Brussels before the revolution , after the reconquest in 1790 he did not return, but served as Dutch court chancellor in Vienna in 1793/94 until the final end of Austrian rule in the country. As a result, he had conflicts with Minister Thugut , against whose policy of confrontation he appeared before the emperor. He became the head of the aristocratic opposition to the "war baron" Thugut.

After the overthrow of the unsuccessful Thugut, Emperor Franz II therefore temporarily appointed Trauttmansdorff in 1800/01 as deputy, acting foreign minister under cabinet minister Colloredo . In his eight-month term of office he tried to achieve rapprochement with Russia and Prussia as a counterweight to revolutionary France as well as a stronger participation of Austria in the secularization of German areas through the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss . But the state chancellery was in a chaotic state, the Habsburg Empire was in these days of war without an effective government.

Time and again, ultimately in vain as cabinet minister, Trauttmansdorff was elevated to the hereditary imperial prince on January 12, 1805 . From August 1807 until his death in 1827 he served as the chief steward of Emperor Franz. In this function he was responsible for the organization of the Congress of Vienna in 1814/15 .

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c Gustav Buchholz : Trauttmansdorff, Ferdinand Fürst zu . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 524-531.
↑ Family tree of the Trauttmansdorffs
^ Franz Xaver Bishop: The end of the diocese of Constance. Hochstift and Diocese of Constance in the field of tension between secularization and suppression (1802 / 03–1821 / 27). Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-17010-575-2 , p. 102.
↑ Johannes Koll: "The Belgian Nation." Patriotism and National Consciousness in the Southern Netherlands in the Late 18th Century. Verlag Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-83091-209-9 , p. 111.
^ ^A ^b Karl Otmar Aretin, Joachim Leuschner (Hrsg.): German history. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-52533-583-0 , pp. 80 and 88.

Web links

Entry on Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

predecessor	Office	successor
Leopold von Neipperg	Bohemian envoy to the Holy Roman Empire 1780–1785	Joseph Johann von Seilern and Aspang
	Austrian envoy in Kurmainz 1785–1787
Franz Maria of Thugut	Austrian Foreign Minister 1800–1801	Johann Ludwig von Cobenzl

personal data
SURNAME	Trauttmansdorff, Ferdinand von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Trauttmansdorff-Weinsberg, Prince Ferdinand from and to
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian nobleman, diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	January 2, 1749
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	August 28, 1827
Place of death	Vienna

[ADB-1] Gustav Buchholz : Trauttmansdorff, Ferdinand Fürst zu . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 38, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1894, pp. 524-531.

[2] Family tree of the Trauttmansdorffs

[3] Franz Xaver Bishop: The end of the diocese of Constance. Hochstift and Diocese of Constance in the field of tension between secularization and suppression (1802 / 03–1821 / 27). Verlag Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-17010-575-2 , p. 102.

[4] Johannes Koll: "The Belgian Nation." Patriotism and National Consciousness in the Southern Netherlands in the Late 18th Century. Verlag Waxmann, Münster 2003, ISBN 3-83091-209-9 , p. 111.

[Aretin-5] A ^b Karl Otmar Aretin, Joachim Leuschner (Hrsg.): German history. Verlag Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-52533-583-0 , pp. 80 and 88.