Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade

Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade (born August 8, 1798 in Brixlegg , Tyrol , † October 22, 1872 in Florence ) was a Prussian diplomat .

Life

Brassier came from a French aristocratic family who emigrated to Germany during the French Revolution . His parents were the Secret Council Marie Louis Joseph Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade and his wife Louise nee. from Stampfer .

He attended the pedagogy in Züllichau in eastern Brandenburg and graduated from high school on June 16, 1818. He served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army in 1819/20 . At the same time he studied law and literature from 1818 at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . On December 16, 1820, he and ten fellow students founded the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . He passed the auscultation exam on April 23, 1822 and was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. After he had passed the legal traineeship on November 4, 1823, he was drafted into the Prussian Foreign Service (diplomatic career) on May 5, 1824. He initially served as an attaché in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs .

From October 21, 1826 to the spring of 1827 he was temporarily employed at the embassy in Saint Petersburg . On October 19, 1827 he passed the diplomatic examination. As secretary of the legation he came to the embassy in Lisbon in early 1828 and to the embassy in Constantinople in 1829 . At times its acting head, he was involved in the Peace of Adrianople (1829) . On 18 December 1832 he was awarded the character as Counselor. From July 5, 1833 to the beginning of 1838 he was the legation secretary at the legation in Paris . After provisional employment in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he took up the new post as Minister-Resident in Athens in November 1838 . Appointed envoy on January 16, 1842 , he took over the business in Stockholm in October 1845 . On June 6, 1848, he married Marie Comtesse de Ribeaupierre , a native Russian. On November 27, 1854 he took office as envoy in Turin . In December 1862 he was transferred to Constantinople. He took over the business on February 27, 1863. In March 1869 he was appointed envoy of the North German Confederation to the Kingdom of Italy in Florence and from 1871 in Rome . The handover of the credentials as the first envoy of the German Empire took place on March 7, 1871.

See also : List of Prussian envoys in Sweden

Honors

At least the medals awarded after 1856 are missing.

• Kgl. prussia. Chamberlain (February 25, 1833)
• Order of the Redeemer , Grand Cross
• North Star Order , Grand Cross
• Royal House Order of Hohenzollern
• Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class
• Russian Order of Saint Anne 2nd class
• Elevation to Count (October 5, 1857)
• Real Privy Council with the Predicate Excellence (June 10, 1856)

literature

• Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 3. Leipzig 1905, p. 344
• Albert von Pourtalès , estate: 11 letters from Maria Joseph Anton Brassier de St. Simon-Vallade to Albert Alexander von Pourtales. Turin 1859.Bavarian State Library , Ana 472, II.

Web links

• Marie Louis Joseph de Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade (Nobiliaire universel, 1856)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945; according to personnel records (signature: personnel files 1658–1661) in the Political Archives of the Foreign Office
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten, 1960, 66/4.
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Nobilaire universel (1856)

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig August von Lusi	Prussian envoy in Athens 1838–1844	Karl von Werther
Ferdinand von Galen	Prussian envoy in Stockholm 1845–1854	Otto Franz von Westphalen
Heinrich Alexander von Redern	Prussian envoy in Turin 1854–1862	- from 1862 envoy to Italy
Robert Heinrich Ludwig von der Goltz	Prussian envoy to Constantinople 1862–1869	- from 1869 envoy of the North German Confederation
Guido von Usedom was the Prussian envoy until 1869	German ambassador in Rome 1869–1872	Robert von Keudell