Johann Ludwig of Jordan

Johann Ludwig von Jordan (born September 3, 1773 in Berlin , † September 4, 1848 in Dresden ) was a Prussian diplomat.

Life

Johann Ludwig von Jordan came from a middle-class background. After studying law at the University of Halle , he was initially employed by the French Chamber of Justice in Berlin. On the recommendation of State Minister Thulemeyer , he became secret secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1799. In 1802 he was appointed war councilor and gradually drawn into more important political business by Karl August von Hardenberg , who was and remained his patron. In negotiations with France in 1806 he had shown so much skill that he was often called in to such negotiations in the years that followed. In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he rose to head of section in 1810 and was appointed to the State Council.

During the campaigns of the Wars of Liberation in 1813 and 1814, he was constantly at the side of State Chancellor Hardenberg, especially during the negotiations for the First Peace of Paris and at the Congress of Vienna .

In 1814 he was appointed Real Secret Legation Councilor .

On January 17, 1816 King Friedrich Wilhelm III raised him . into the nobility.

After he had been successful in extraordinary missions in Warsaw , Vienna and Dresden from 1816 to 1818 , he was appointed envoy to the royal Saxon court in Dresden in 1819.

He held the legation post in Dresden until shortly before his death in 1848.

literature

• Karin Schneider, Eva Maria Werner: Europe in Vienna. Who's Who at the Congress of Vienna 1814/15. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-205-79488-2 .
• Paul Bailleu:  Jordan, Johann Ludwig von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1881, p. 506.