Karl Ludwig of Ficquelmont

Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont, lithograph by Josef Kriehuber , 1838.

Karl Ludwig Reichsgraf von Ficquelmont (born March 23, 1777 at Dieuze Castle near Metz , † April 7, 1857 in Venice ) was an Austrian general and statesman .

Life

Dorothea de Ficquelmont

Ficquelmont came from an old noble family in Lorraine and first entered the Austrian army, where he rose to colonel in 1809 and was then appointed chief of staff in the army of Archduke Ferdinand von Este . He commanded three cavalry regiments against the French in Spain in 1811 and 1812 . In 1814 Ficquelmont was promoted to major general, when he brought about the surrender of Lyon in 1815 .

After the end of the wars of liberation he was on various diplomatic missions. From 1821 to 1828 he was envoy in Naples . In 1821 he married Dorothea von Tiesenhausen (1804–1863), daughter of Ferdinand von Tiesenhausen . In 1829 he became ambassador to Saint Petersburg and was therefore an important factor influencing Metternich's policy on Tsar Nicholas I.

Other stations in Ficquelmont's career were:

• 1830 Appointment as field marshal lieutenant
• 1831 Owner of the 6th Dragoon Regiment
• 1840 Appointment as Minister of State and Conference
• 1843 Promotion to General of the Cavalry

On March 20, 1848 Ficquelmont took over the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the first responsible ministry, Kolowrat . After his resignation after just one month, Ficquelmont himself was transferred to the Austrian government on April 19 . However, as a member of Metternich's party and a proven friend of Russia, demonstrations forced him to resign at the beginning of May.

From then on, he lived in Vienna and Venice , where he held soirees with musical performances and recitations. The Palazzo Clary-Ficquelmont in Venice, which his son-in-law Prince Edmund von Clary and Aldringen (1813-1894) bought in 1855 as a retirement home for his in-laws, is still owned by this family today.

Fonts

• Clarifications about the period from March 20th to May 4th, 1848 . Leipzig 1850
• Germany, Austria and Prussia . Vienna 1851
• Lord Palmerston, England and the Continent . 2 volumes Vienna 1852
• Russia's politics and the Danube principalities . Vienna 1854
• For future peace . Vienna 1856

literature

• Ficquelmont, Karl Ludwig Gf. from. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1957, p. 310 f. (Direct links on p. 310 , p. 311 ).
• Johann Christoph Allmayer-Beck :  Ficquelmont, Karl Ludwig Graf von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 5, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1961, ISBN 3-428-00186-9 , p. 136 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Anton Victor Felgel:  Ficquelmont, Karl Ludwig Graf von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 7, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1877, pp. 1-4.
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Ficquelmont, Karl Ludwig Graf . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 4th part. Typogr.-literar.-artist publishing house. Establishment (L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.), Vienna 1858, pp. 221-223 ( digitized version ).
• Franz Schuselka (1811–1886): Illumination of the explanations of Mr. L. Count Ficquelmont , Vienna 185? 0

Web links

Commons : House of Ficquelmont  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Entry on Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Ludwig Graf von Ficquelmont. In: Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, (Volume 1), p. 443.
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