Gustav von Blome

Gustav Graf 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.

Montpreis Castle (1847)

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

1. ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume I, page 436, Volume 53 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1972
2. ^ Genealogical page on Caroline von Isenburg-Birstein
3. ↑ 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.  
4. ↑ 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.

Web links

Commons : Gustav von Blome  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature list in the online catalog of the Berlin State Library

predecessor	Office	successor
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