Friedrich Albrecht von der Schulenburg

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Klosterrode old castle

Friedrich Albrecht Graf von der Schulenburg , after his estate also Graf von der Schulenburg-Klosterroda or modernized Schulenburg-Klosterrode , (born June 18, 1772 in Dresden ; † September 12, 1853 in Klosterrode ) was an electoral Saxon , then a royal Saxon diplomat and minister . He came from the Wolfsburg branch of the von der Schulenburg family and was the second and last member of the Klosterrode family.

Life

Friedrich Albrecht was born as the son of Albrecht Ludwig (Albert Ludovikus) von der Schulenburg (1741–1784), Electoral Saxon secret chamber and mountain ridge, and Auguste Friederike born. von Stammer (1751–1809) born. He was a grandson of the Prussian Lieutenant General Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg (1655–1741), owner of the Schulenburg Regiment, who died in the Battle of Mollwitz .

After the early death of his father, he grew up in Klosterrode, protected by his mother and guardian, Heinrich Ulrich Erasmus von Hardenberg (1738–1814), the father of the poet Novalis . After studying in Leipzig and Wittenberg , he devoted himself to diplomacy and politics. From 1794 to 1798 he was assigned to the embassies in Vienna , Regensburg and Rastatt as an attaché. In 1799 he became envoy in Copenhagen , from 1801 to 1804 he held the same post in Saint Petersburg and from 1810 to 1830 at the Viennese court.

At the Paris negotiations of 1815 it was certified with the emperors of Austria , Russia and the King of Prussia . His task as authorized representative for Saxony at the Congress of Vienna and its follow-up conferences was made considerably more difficult, as he was not officially accredited in the negotiations on the fate of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig until the agreements of the Congress of Vienna were reached, but only worked as a private person could. On May 18, 1815, however, he signed the treaty concluded with the great powers, which was ratified by the king on May 21. The division of Saxony was sealed and the former Saxon Kurlande ceded to Prussia. Schulenburg's possession, the Klosterrode estate, which his grandfather Adolf Friedrich had bought in 1739, came to Prussia.

In 1819 he took part in the Karlovy Vary Conferences as the representative of his king . In the same year he was entrusted with soliciting the hand of Archduchess Karoline Ferdinande of Austria for the then prince, later King Friedrich August II . The marriage took place in the same year. In 1828 he was appointed conference minister, in October 1830 he left the civil service after the small-state revolution in Saxony and lived mainly in Vienna, where he had considerable influence in local salons. However, he spent the summers on his estate in Klosterrode, where he died of a heart attack in 1853 and was buried in the family crypt at St. Lamberti in Blankenheim.

marriage and family

Friedrich Albrecht was married to Armgard von der Schulenburg (* January 12, 1799, † 1883), daughter of Philipp Ernst Alexander von der Schulenburg-Emden (1762-1820) and Caroline von Alvensleben (1766-1856). The marriage remained childless.

Works

  • Family tables of the Schulenburg family. Vienna 1821, with four appendices, published in 1823, 1824, 1825 and 1826, printed, but not in bookshops.
  • Description of the life of the Venetian field marshal Matthias Johann Graf von der Schulenburg. 1841, without naming the author.
  • New pieces of files on the cause of the Seven Years' War. 1842, without naming the author.
  • Memories of the Russian Minister Baron Achaz Ferdinand von der Asseburg. edited from his handwritten papers, undated, without naming the author.
  • Personal estate in the Saxon State Archives
  • The Duchess of Ahlden ancestral mother of the royal houses of Hanover and Prussia. 1852 (digitized version).

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personal data
SURNAME Schulenburg, Friedrich Albrecht of the
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schulenburg-Klosterroda, Friedrich Albrecht von der; Debt castle-Klosterrode, Friedrich Albrecht von der
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Saxon diplomat and minister
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1772
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1853
Place of death Klosterrode