Gustav von Blome
Otto Paul Julius Gustav Lehnsgraf von Blome (born May 18, 1829 in Hanover , † August 24, 1906 in Bad Kissingen ) was a diplomat of German descent in the Austrian service, a politician and social reformer.
biography
Blome came from the noble family Blome, who lived on Gut Salzau in Schleswig-Holstein . He was the eldest son and heir of the Danish secret conference council and chamberlain Count Otto von Blome (1795-1884) on Salzau and the princess Klementine Bagration (1810-1829). Their parents were the Georgian Prince Pyotr Iwanowitsch Bagration and the Princess Katharina Bagration , née Countess Skawronskaja, but it was common knowledge that Klementine came from a liaison between her mother and the Austrian State Chancellor Prince Klemens Wenzel Lothar von Metternich . Klementine Blome died shortly after the birth of her son Gustav. His father was raised to the Danish liege count on September 11, 1819 with a diploma from May 1, 1820 .
Gustav Blome first attended the Knight Academy Lüneburg and then studied law at the University of Bonn . His participation in the Schleswig-Holstein War of 1848/1849 as a lieutenant in the Schleswig-Holstein army and orderly officer of General Eduard von Bonin made his entry into the Danish diplomatic service impossible. He joined the Austrian diplomatic service , which brought him to St. Petersburg as an attaché , as a secretary at the embassy in Paris and to the foreign ministry in Vienna . In 1860 he came to Hamburg as an envoy to the Hanseatic cities and in 1864 to Munich as an authorized minister at the Bavarian royal court . In 1865 he was the Austrian negotiator in the negotiations that finally led to the Gastein Convention on the Elbe Duchies on August 14, 1865 . In the following year 1866 he finally resigned from the diplomatic service.
Blome acquired the Montpreis Castle in Lower Styria in 1862 (today Planina pri Sevnici , Šentjur municipality , Slovenia ). He was appointed royal chamberlain , privy councilor , envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary at disposition. From April 1867 he belonged for life to the Austrian mansion , where he represented Catholic-Conservative positions. He was also promoted to Knight of Honor of the Order of Malta .
Gustav Graf Blome made a lasting commitment to socio-political reforms in the manor house. a. for a reduction of working hours to a maximum of 10 hours, for professional organization of the economy, for workers' compensation insurance, for Sunday rest and for a ban on night work by women. If possible, he has already implemented these ideas on his own property. He worked as a journalist for the daily newspaper " Vaterland ".
Against the energetic resistance of his father and with the encouragement of his aunt, the writer Ida Hahn-Hahn , Blome converted to the Catholic faith in 1857. He married on September 1, 1858 in Maria Enzersdorf ( Lower Austria ) Josephine Countess von Buol-Schauenstein (born October 10, 1835 in Karlsruhe , † May 21, 1916 in Salzburg ), the daughter of the Austrian ambassador and Prime Minister Karl Graf von Buol-Schauenstein (1797–1865) and the Caroline Countess von Isenburg-Birstein (1809–1861). The latter was the granddaughter of the Bavarian Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm zu Isenburg and Büdingen (1730-1804) and his wife Karoline Franziska Dorothea von Parkstein (1762-1816), a natural daughter of the Elector Karl Theodor of Electoral Palatinate Bavaria . Gustav and Josephine von Blome had a total of 10 children (4 boys and 6 girls). One of the daughters, Carola von Blome (1877–1951), became a nun and after her the Carola-Blome-Straße in Salzburg is named.
Gustav von Blome is buried in the chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen.
Individual evidence
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, page 436, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972
- ^ Genealogical page on Caroline von Isenburg-Birstein
- ↑ Genealogical website with a list of the children ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Website from Salzburg Wiki
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Blome, Otto Paul Julius Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 22nd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1870, p. 485 ( digitized version ).
- Nikolaus von Preradovich : Blome, Gustav Lehnsgraf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 2, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1955, ISBN 3-428-00183-4 , p. 315 ( digitized version ).
- Blome Gustav Graf. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 94.
- Gerhard Wulz: The chapel cemetery in Bad Kissingen. A guide with short biographies . Verlag Stadt Bad Kissingen, Badd Kissingen 2001, ISBN 3-934912-04-4 .
- Emiel Lamberts: A Peculiar Heir of Metternich: Gustav von Blome (1829-1906) . In: Bernhard Löffler , Karsten Ruppert (Hrsg.): Religious imprint and political order in modern times . Festschrift for Winfried Becker on his 65th birthday (= Passau Historical Research . Volume 15). Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2006, ISBN 978-3-412-05306-2 .
- Emiel Lamberts: The Struggle with Leviathan. Social Responses to the Omnipotence of the State, 1815-1965. Leuven University Press, Leuven 2016, ISBN 978-94-6270-070-3 .
- Emiel Lamberts: Les catholiques et l'État. Un tableau européen (1815-16-965). Desclée de Brouwer, Paris 2018, ISBN 978-2-22009-199-0 .
- Gerhard Wulz: The social aristocrat . In: Saale-Zeitung , November 21, 2008.
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predecessor | Office | successor |
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Heinrich of Testa |
Austrian envoy in Hamburg November 7, 1860 to October 12, 1863 |
Carl Ramon Soter von Lederer |
Alexander von Schönburg-Hartenstein |
Austrian envoy in Munich December 17, 1863 to December 16, 1866 |
Ferdinand von Trauttmansdorff |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Blome, Gustav von |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blome, Otto Paul Julius Gustav Graf von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-born diplomat in the Austrian service and politician |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1829 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
DATE OF DEATH | August 24, 1906 |
Place of death | Bad Kissingen |