Heinrich von Bülow

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Heinrich von Bülow, Prussian Minister of Foreign Affairs, 1845.

Heinrich Freiherr von Bülow (born September 16, 1792 in Schwerin , † February 6, 1846 in Berlin ) was a Prussian statesman and husband of Gabriele von Bülow .

Life

He came from the Mecklenburg noble family von Bülow and was a son of the Oberhofmarschall Bernhard Joachim von Bülow .

Bulow attended the Cathedral School Güstrow , studied from 1810 at first in Jena , then in Heidelberg and Geneva law . On January 13, 1811, he was one of the founders of the Corps Vandalia Jena. In the same year he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg II. In 1813 he joined the Walmodensche Corps as a lieutenant and became adjutant to the Russian Colonel August Ludwig Ferdinand von Nostitz , during whose forays he distinguished himself several times during the Wars of Liberation .

After the peace he devoted himself to the diplomatic subject, worked under State Minister Wilhelm von Humboldt when he was in charge of border regulation of the German territories in Frankfurt am Main , and followed him in 1817 as legation secretary to London and in 1819 to Berlin, where he was in the foreign office Lecture on commercial and shipping matters.

Bülow was particularly successful in initiating the customs union by concluding customs agreements with neighboring countries. He also worked for the Zollverein as an envoy in London , to which he was appointed in 1827. He gained the confidence of the English statesmen and played an important role in the negotiations on Belgium and the Oriental question (1840–41). In the autumn of 1841 he was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs to the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main, but on April 2, 1842, in the place of Count Mortimer von Maltzahn . He and the Minister of War Hermann von Boyen represented the more liberal direction in the ministry, but exerted little influence on general politics.

Badly hit by a stroke, Bülow asked the king to be released from civil service in August 1845 and withdrew from Frankfurt to Tegel . His mental condition continued to deteriorate over the following months until he died in February 1846.

family

On January 10, 1821, he married Wilhelm von Humboldt's younger daughter Gabriele in Berlin, to whom he had been engaged for five years. The marriage had seven children:

  • Gabriele (7 January 1822 - 16 February 1854) ⚭ 29 August 1842 Leopold von Loën (1817–1895)
  • Adelheid (born October 16, 1823 - December 21, 1889), unmarried
  • Caroline (February 27, 1826 - November 19, 1887), unmarried
  • Therese (born August 15, 1829 - † July 20, 1841)
  • Constanze (April 10, 1832; † 1920) ⚭ January 17, 1857 Carl von Heinz (1818–1867)
  • Wilhelm (May 12, 1836 - September 6, 1836)
  • Bernhard Hans (born June 8, 1838; † October 17, 1889) ⚭ September 28, 1865 Anna Luise Emilie von Byern (1847–1931)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 130 , 9; 122 , 42
  2. ^ A b Anna von Sydow (Ed.): Gabriele von Bülow. Daughter of Wilhelm von Humboldt. A picture of life from the family papers of Wilhelm von Humboldt and his children 1791–1887. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1937.

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personal data
SURNAME Bülow, Heinrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bülow, Heinrich Freiherr von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian statesman
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1792
PLACE OF BIRTH Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 1846
Place of death Berlin