List of the Hanoverian envoys to the Holy See

List of the Hanoverian ambassadors to the Holy See in Rome .

history

See also : Relations between Germany and the Holy See

“ View from the Villa Malta in Rome to the west ” (1835)
painting by JC Reinhart, today in the Neue Pinakothek , Munich

The predominantly Protestant electorate of Hanover (Braunschweig-Lüneburg) had few relations with the Holy See in the 18th century . When, after the Congress of Vienna (1815), the Catholic, former dioceses of Hildesheim and Osnabrück were added to the Kingdom of Hanover , Hanover initially established diplomatic relations with the Curia out of necessity, in order to rewrite the Catholic dioceses and define the diocesan borders of the To negotiate dioceses. The Hanover Mission, founded in 1816, was the first “Protestant embassy” of a member state in the German Confederation and, despite its short existence, developed into a center for the Protestant minority in the Eternal City.

Hannover installed itself in Rome in the Villa Malta on the Pincio . During the tenure of Baron von Ompteda, the embassy became a meeting place for diplomats from countries with non-Catholic populations to exchange ideas on cultural matters or to discuss practical issues such as the maintenance of the Protestant cemetery . Because of the personal union between Britain and Hanover , the Hanover-based embassy also made an interface for since the Act of Supremacy of 1534 unrelated to the Vatican standing Anglican Church . In the 1820s and 1830s, the villa was a magnet and center for the German artist colony in Rome, with painters like Johann Christian Reinhart and other artists and art lovers. In 1829 the Hanoverian embassy helped found the German Archaeological Institute .

After the completion of the " Impensa Romanorum Pontificum " there was little need for the legation and in 1849 it was dissolved. As a legacy, the Egyptian and Greco-Roman art objects collected by August Kestner in Rome and southern Italy became the basis for the August Kestner Museum, which opened in Hanover in 1889 .

Heads of mission

1816: Establishment of diplomatic relations

Appointment / accreditation	Recall	Surname	Remarks	appointed by	accredited at
1816	1819	Friedrich of Ompteda	(* 1772; † 1819) 1814 envoy to Italy	George III	Pius VII
1819	1825	Franz von Reden	(* 1754; † 1831) 1800 to 1803 and 1825 to 1831 envoy in Prussia , 1804 to 1806 with St. Rom. Reich in Regensburg, 1815 to 1819 in Baden	George III	Pius VII
1825	1849	August Kestner	Kestner (* 1777; † 1853) from 1817 legation secretary, 1825 to 1834 accredited. as charge d'affaires , 1843-1849 as envoy extraordinary , plus. Akkr. in Naples	George IV	Leo XII.

1849: Dissolution of the legation

Web links

Commons : Hannoversche Diplomats  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hans-Georg Aschoff : The relationship between the state and the Catholic Church in the Kingdom of Hanover (1813-1866) . Lax, Hildesheim 1976
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Uwe Israel, Michael Matheus: Protestants between Venice and Rome in the early modern period . Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2013
3. ↑ Ludwig von Ompteda: Odd journeys and adventures of a middle-class diplomat A picture of life and culture from around 1800 . Hirzel, Leipzig 1894
4. ^ ^{A b} Ferdinand Frensdorff: Reden, Franz von in der Deutschen Biographie , accessed on March 26, 2016.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Jürgen Wittstock:  August Kestner. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 533 f. ( Digitized version ).