Franz von Reden (diplomat)

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Franz Ludwig Wilhelm von Reden (born October 10, 1754 in Hoya , † March 4, 1831 in Berlin ) was a Hanoverian statesman and diplomat.

Life

Franz von Reden was the son of Lieutenant General Ernst Friedrich von Reden, who died in the battle near Atzenhain in 1761 . He attended the Knights' Academy of Lüneburg from 1771 to 1772 and enrolled in May 1773 to study law at the University of Göttingen . In Göttingen, as evidenced by the surviving protocols, he became a member of the Hanoverian Landsmannschaft and from Easter 1776 to Michaelis 1776 their sub-senior as well as a member of the influential ZN student order . The ADB point out that during his studies, for example, he introduced fellow students Heinrich Friedrich Karl vom und zum Stein and August Wilhelm Rehberg to one another.

He finished his studies in Michaelis in 1776 and became auditor of the law firm in 1777 and a member of the Hanoverian war chancellery in 1779 . Here he proved himself and showed his first diplomatic skills, so that in 1792 he was accepted into the diplomatic service of the Electorate of Braunschweig-Lüneburg. In his first mission he accompanied the Minister of State Ludwig Friedrich von Beulwitz to the coronation of Emperor Franz II in the Frankfurt Cathedral and was then briefly ambassador of Hanover in Kurmainz and Kurköln . These representations were done away with by the French Revolution , which led to the dissolution of these courts.

As a member of the Hanoverian representation, Reden took part in the Rastatt Congress and after its conclusion became Hanover's ambassador to the Prussian court in Berlin. In 1803 he became a representative of the electorate at the Perpetual Reichstag in Regensburg . From here he protested against the occupation of Hanover by France in 1803 ( Convention of Artlenburg ) and against the occupation of Hanover by Prussia (1806). In 1806 he stayed in Regensburg for the time being, as Hanover was occupied, then moved to Aschaffenburg, and, when his protection there was no longer guaranteed, to Austria in 1813.

Villa Malta , Rome. Painting by Frederic Leighton
Former Palais Groeben, Leipziger Strasse 3, Berlin. The Hanoverian embassy used the first floor

After the Congress of Vienna he returned to the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Hanover and was appointed Hanoverian envoy to the courts of Stuttgart and Karlsruhe with an embassy in Karlsruhe. In 1819 he was transferred to the Holy See as the Hanoverian envoy and , together with his colleague and successor August Kestner , made the embassy building in Rome, the Villa Malta on the Pincio , a center of Protestant circles, but also of numerous German artists (e.g. the Nazarenes ) in the city.

In the period after the Congress of Vienna, diplomatic issues between the Kingdom of Hanover and the Vatican were about the integration of the former monasteries Hildesheim and Osnabrück into the kingdom and the resulting need for regulation between the Roman Catholic Church and Hanover and the reorganization of the Catholic Church in the two dioceses of Hildesheim and Osnabrück with the Weser as the diocese border as well as diaspora work. The concordat initially sought did not materialize. In these negotiations, speeches made by the government in Hanover were accused of a lack of severity and a misguided interest policy; they came to an end in 1824 with the circumscription bull Impensa Romanorum Pontificum .

In 1825 he was again envoy of Hanover to the Prussian court in Berlin and remained in this post until his death. Until his transfer to London, the staff of the Berlin legation also included Karl Klingemann , a good friend of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's .

Reden had an extensive library; he wrote numerous papers on political, historical and art-historical topics.

Franz von Reden died in Berlin in 1831 at the age of 76. He was buried in the Trinity Cemetery in front of the Potsdamer Tor . Reden's grave was lost when the cemetery was leveled in 1922 at the latest.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Otto Deneke, Alte Göttinger Landsmannschaften , Göttingen 1937, p. 26.
  2. ↑ Walter Richter: The Esperance and ZN Order , in: Einst und Jetzt. 1974 Yearbook of the Association for Corps Student History Research, pp. 30–54 (No. 69)
  3. ^ [Letter, the complete disarmament of the Hanoverian troops by the enforced convention of July 5, 1803 concerning France] of August 20, 1803 in Reichstag writings, concerning the renewal of the war with France: from the years 1803-1805
  4. ^ Letter to the imperial princes, princes and estates regarding the invasion of the Courlands and German states by Prussia , Regensburg 1806
  5. ↑ Directory of the collection of books left by ... Baron von Reden, consisting of genealogical, political, diplomatic, historical, art-historical, geographical, literary and various other important works, in German, French, Latin. Italian and English language, consisting of ... , Müller, Berlin 1832
  6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , pp. 152–153.
predecessor Office successor
Ludwig Karl Georg von Ompteda
Friedrich Wilhelm Alexander von Linsingen 		Hanoverian envoy in Prussia
1800 to 1803
1825 to 1831 		Ludwig Karl Georg von Ompteda
Börries Wilhelm von Münchhausen
Dietrich Heinrich Ludwig von Ompteda Hanoverian envoy to the Holy Roman Empire
1803 to 1806 		Office dissolved
Friedrich of Ompteda Hanoverian envoy to the Holy See
1819 to 1825 		August Kestner
personal data
SURNAME Talk, Franz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Speeches, Franz Ludwig Wilhelm von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hanoverian statesman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1754
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoya
DATE OF DEATH March 4, 1831
Place of death Berlin