Georg Herbert of Munster

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Probably before 1899: Still as Count (French: Comte) de Munster , portrayed by Nadar in Paris, and here as a later collector's picture distributed through the Félix Potin Collection

Georg Herbert Graf zu Münster von Derneburg (born December 23, 1820 in London ; † March 28, 1902 in Hanover ), from 1899: Georg Herbert Prince Münster von Derneburg , was a German diplomat.

Life

Georg Herbert zu Münster comes from the Westphalian noble family Münster . His father was Count Ernst Friedrich Herbert zu Münster († 1839), who headed the German chancellery in London from 1805 to 1831 during the British-Hanoverian personal union and represented the Electorate of Hanover at the Congress of Vienna . His mother was Wilhelmine Charlotte zu Schaumburg-Lippe (1783-1858), a daughter of Philip II zu Schaumburg-Lippe .

Georg Herbert zu Munster did not share the art-historical view of his father with the former Derneburg monastery as the family seat and wanted to convert it into a romantic castle, as he knew it from England. In 1846 he had Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves demolish two thirds of the monastery church and open the closed square with its cloister to form a U-shaped building, so that Derneburg Castle was created.

Prince Georg Munster von Derneburg

Georg zu Münster was the Royal Hanoverian ambassador to Saint Petersburg from 1857 to 1865 . In 1866 he tried in vain to persuade King George V of Hanover to adopt policies that were friendly to Prussia. After the annexation of Hanover by Prussia, he was a member of the Prussian mansion from 1867 to 1902 .

After the establishment of the German Empire, he was a publicist and member of the Reichstag (1871–1873). Münster was one of the founding members of the German Fisheries Association in 1870 and became its first president in 1870. He was then ambassador of the German Empire in London (1873–1885) and Paris (1885–1900). At the Hague Peace Conference of 1899 he was the representative of the German Reich.

In 1899 he was raised to the rank of prince in Potsdam, which his father had rejected for himself. Count Münster was a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn (1841) and Lunaburgia III zu Göttingen (1842).

Alexander zu Münster is buried in Derneburg in the family cemetery at the mausoleum of Count Ernst zu Münster .

family

On August 11, 1847, he married Princess Alexandrine Galitzin (daughter of the Russian Lieutenant General Fürst Galitzin and Princess Maria Suvorov), from whom he was divorced in 1864. He entered into a second marriage on August 22, 1865 with Lady Harriet Elisabeth St. Claire-Erskine, she was a daughter of James St Clair-Erskine, 3rd Earl of Rosslyn. From the first marriage:

  • Sophie (* May 16, 1851 - December 27, 1933) ∞ Konrad Otto Heinrich Johann von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg (* October 29, 1839 - March 12, 1913), Prussian major general (parents of Helene von Nostitz )
  • Ernst Adolf (* August 5, 1856 - † February 3, 1905) ∞ Melanie Ghika de Dezsanfalva (* March 19, 1866 - March 21, 1941)
  • Alexander (September 1, 1858 - October 12, 1922) ∞ Muriel Henrietta Constance Hay (August 14, 1863 - January 1, 1927)

Works

  • Political sketches on the situation in Europe from the Vienna Congress to the present (1815–1867) together with the despatches from Count Ernst Friedrich Herbert zu Münster about the Vienna Congress.
  • My share in the events of 1866 in Hanover.

literature

Web links

Commons : Georg Herbert zu Münster  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Münster von Derneburg, Georg Fürst in the German biography
  2. ↑ Kösener Korps-Lists 1910, 19., 186; 79, 156
personal data
SURNAME Münster, Georg Herbert to
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minster of Derneburg, Georg Herbert Fürst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and politician, MdR
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1902
Place of death Hanover