Heinrich von Redern
Count Heinrich Alexander von Redern (born September 26, 1804 , † October 23, 1888 ) was a Prussian diplomat.
family
As a scion of the Havelland nobility, Heinrich von Redern was born to the royal chamberlain and court marshal of Prince Heinrich of Prussia , Wilhelm Jakob Moritz Graf von Redern (1750-1816) and his second wife Wilhelmine von Otterstedt (1772-1842) as the second eldest son. His older brother was the general director and composer Wilhelm Graf von Redern .
Heinrich von Redern married Princess Victoria Odescalchi (1811-1889). The couple had three children. The eldest son Wilhelm became heir .
Life
Redern was in Prussian diplomatic service and was the Prussian envoy in Darmstadt ( Grand Duchy of Hesse ), since 1846 in Turin ( Kingdom of Sardinia ), 1856/57 in Dresden ( Kingdom of Saxony ) and until 1867 in Saint Petersburg .
Redern was a legal knight of the Order of St. John, a real privy councilor, chamberlain and held the ceremonial office of chamberlain.
In 1883 he inherited the family's extensive property from his older brother, including the Redern Palace across from the Brandenburg Gate, where he resided from then on. In 1885 he took the hereditary seat of the family in the manor house , which was on the Fideikommiss Greifenberg.
literature
- Justhus Perthes (Hrsg.): Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Gräfliche Häuser, Gotha 1879 , page 708
- Sabine Giesbrecht: Redern (Rhedern, Rödern). In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 242 f. ( Digitized version ). (Family item)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Ferdinand von Galen |
royal Prussian envoy in Darmstadt 1838–1842 |
Heinrich Friedrich Philipp von Bockelberg |
| Friedrich Ludwig III. Count Truchsess zu Waldburg |
royal Prussian envoy in Turin 1845–1848 |
Georg von Werthern |
| Ferdinand von Galen |
royal Prussian envoy in Dresden 1853–1859 |
Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde |
| Adolf von Brockhausen |
royal Prussian envoy in Brussels 1859–1863 |
Hermann Ludwig von Balan |
| Robert von der Goltz |
royal Prussian envoy in Saint Petersburg 1863–1865 |
Hans Lothar von Schweinitz |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Redern, Heinrich von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Redern, Heinrich Alexander von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Prussian diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 26, 1804 |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 23, 1888 |