List of Prussian envoys in the United Kingdom

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This is a list of the Brandenburg - Prussian envoys in England and the United Kingdom :

history

No. 8 & No. 9 Carlton House Terrace , The Mall (formerly the Prussian Legation and German Embassy until 1955)

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

Prussian ambassadors in England

Prussian envoy to the United Kingdom

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From 1867: envoy of the North German Confederation, from 1871 ambassador of the German Reich

See also

literature

Web links

Commons : Diplomats of Prussia  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ 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 .
  2. ^ 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]).
  3. ^ A b c Johann Gustav Droysen : Friedrich I., King of Prussia . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001 ( online [accessed March 2, 2015]).
  4. a b Irene Polke: Self-reflection in the mirror of the other . Königshausen & Neumann , Würzburg 1999, p. 90 ( online [accessed March 2, 2015]).
  5. 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 .
  6. Degenfeld-Schomburg, Christoph Martin Graf von in the Hessische Biographie , accessed on March 2, 2015.