List of Prussian envoys in the United Kingdom
This is a list of the Brandenburg - Prussian envoys in England and the United Kingdom :
history
Diplomatic relations between Berlin and London were established after the Peace of Westphalia . The mostly good British-Prussian relations in the 17th and 18th centuries were shaped by the similarities of Protestantism and frequent cooperation in the alliance system of the great powers of Europe , in the 19th century by a number of "learned diplomats" at the Prussian legation in London, such as Wilhelm von Humboldt and Karl von Bunsen . Unlike what has often happened elsewhere, Great Britain and Prussia never broke diplomatic relations.
The title of the highest-ranking representative of Prussia at the court of St. James was: "Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary ". Albrecht von Bernstorff, the last official, was promoted to rank and title of " ambassador " in 1862 . Both the Prussian and British states went through a series of constitutional states: the Electors of Brandenburg carried the title “ King in Prussia ” from 1701 , and “ King of Prussia ” from 1772 ; the Kingdom of England united with Scotland to form the United Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707 , and from 1801 the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland .
With the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, the Prussian embassy merged into the imperial German embassy at the time.
Heads of mission
1651: Establishment of diplomatic relations between the Electorate of Brandenburg-Prussia and the Kingdom of England
Brandenburg ambassadors in England
- 1651–1655:
- 1655–16 ??: Johann Friedrich Schlezer (1610–1673)
- 1659–1661: Daniel Weimann (1621–1661)
- 1660–1668: Christoph von Brandt (1630–1691)
- 1671–1675: Lorenz Georg von Krockow (1638–1702)
- 1675–1678: Otto von Schwerin (1645–1705)
- 1678–1682:
- 1682–1685: Pierre de Falaiseau (1649–1726)
- 1685–1686: Johann von Besser (1654–1729)
- 16 ?? - 16 ??: Wolfgang von Schmettau (1648–1711)
- 16 ?? - 1688: Samuel von Schmettau (1657–1709)
- 1688–1697: Thomas Ernst von Danckelmann (1638–1709)
- 1697–1698: Friedrich Bogislaw Dobrženský von Dobrženitz (n / a)
- 1698–1699: Christoph I of Dohna-Schlodien (1665–1733)
- 1700–1700: David Ancillon the Younger (1670–1723)
Prussian ambassadors in England
- 1702–1707: Ezekiel Spanheim (1629–1710)
Prussian envoy to the United Kingdom
- 1707–1710: Ezekiel Spanheim (1629–1710)
- 1711–1712: Johann August Marschall von Bieberstein († 1736)
- 1712–1719: Louis Frederick Bonet (1670–1761)
- 1719–1726: Johann Christoph Julius Ernst von Wallenrodt (1670–1727)
- 1726–1730: Benjamin Friedrich von Reichenbach (1697–1750)
- 1730–1733: Christoph Martin von Degenfeld-Schonburg (1689–1762)
- 1733–1737: Caspar Wilhelm von Borcke (1704–1747)
- 1737-1742:
- 1742–1744: Karl Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein (1714–1800)
- 1744-1748:
- 1748–1750: Joachim Wilhelm von Klinggräff (1692–1757)
- 1750-1758: Abraham Louis Michell , charge d'affaires (1712-1782)
- 1758–1760: Dodo Heinrich zu Innhausen and Knyphausen (1729–1789)
- 1760–1764: Abraham Louis Michell (1712–1782)
...
- 1773–17 ??: Joachim Carl von Maltzan (1733–1813)
- 1780–1788: Spiridion of Lusi (1741–1815)
- 1788–1790: Philipp Karl von Alvensleben (1745–1802)
- 1790–1792: Sigismund Ehrenreich Johann von Redern (1761–1841)
- 1792–1807: Constans Philipp Wilhelm von Jacobi-Klöst (1745–1817)
- 1807-1815:
- 1815–1817: Constans Philipp Wilhelm von Jacobi-Klöst (1745–1817)
- 1817–1818: Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767–1835)
- 1818–1821: vacant
- 1821–1824: Heinrich von Werther (1772–1859)
- 1824–1827: Bogislaw von Maltzan (1793–1833)
- 1827–1841: Heinrich von Bülow (1792–1846)
- 1841–1854: Christian Karl Josias von Bunsen (1791–1860)
- 1854–1861: Albrecht von Bernstorff (1809–1873)
- 1861–1862: vacant
- 1862–1873: Albrecht von Bernstorff (1809–1873)
From 1867: envoy of the North German Confederation, from 1871 ambassador of the German Reich
See also
literature
- Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon , Volumes 1 to 5 . Reichenbach brothers, Leipzig 1839.
- Johann Heinrich Zedler , Carl Günther Ludovici (Hrsg.): Large complete universal lexicon of all sciences and arts, which were invented and improved by human understanding and wit . Royal Library of the Netherlands, The Hague 1743 ( online ).
Web links
- Legation London (I. HA Rep. 81 London) 1806–1861 , Secret State Archives Prussian Cultural Heritage (GStA PK), Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ A b 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, p. 322 f .
- ^ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : General political and historical correspondence . January - September 1704. In: Complete Writings and Letters . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2013 ( online [accessed March 2, 2015]).
- ^ A b c Johann Gustav Droysen : Friedrich I., King of Prussia . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001 ( online [accessed March 2, 2015]).
- ↑ a b Irene Polke: Self-reflection in the mirror of the other . Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 1999, p. 90 ( online [accessed March 2, 2015]).
- ↑ a b c d e Rolf Straubel : Biographical manual of the Prussian administrative and judicial officials 1740–1806 / 15 . In: Historical Commission to Berlin (Ed.): Individual publications . 85. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-598-23229-9 .
- ↑ Degenfeld-Schomburg, Christoph Martin Graf von in the Hessische Biographie , accessed on March 2, 2015.