List of the Prussian envoys in Saxony

This is a list of the Prussian envoys in the Electorate , Kingdom and the Free State of Saxony .

history

Seal of the Royal Prussian Legation

Since the late Middle Ages , family ties between the Wettin and Hohenzollern dynasties, established through marriages, as well as an inheritance that was concluded in 1457 and renewed several times in the 16th century, determined the Brandenburg-Saxon relations . From the 17th century onwards , Prussian-Saxon relations were characterized by the increase in political power in Prussia and the accompanying loss of power in Saxony. From 1742 Prussia set up a permanent embassy in Dresden .

The First (1740 to 1742) and Second Silesian War (1745 to 1746), the Seven Years War (1756 to 1763) and the German-German War (1866) formed larger conflicts with a temporary break in diplomatic relations . With the creation of the Prussian Foreign Ministry (1808), the Prussian legation system was restructured . During the German Wars of Liberation (1813-1815) there was a withdrawal of the diplomatic corps, but no formal break in relations.

From the middle of the 19th century, the Prussian legation was located in Palais Moszinska , Mosczinskystraße 5, in today's Seevorstadt-Ost / Großer Garten district . After the establishment of the German Empire (1871), the legation had largely become insignificant before it was dissolved in 1924.

Heads of mission

1650: Establishment of diplomatic relations

Prussian envoy to the Electorate of Saxony

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1721 Kurt Christoph von Schwerin
1721–1726: Franz Wilhelm von Happe (1687–1760)

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1742: Establishment of a permanent embassy

1742–1745: Otto Leopold von Beeß (1690–1761)

1745 to 1746: break in relations

1746–1748: Joachim Wilhelm von Klinggräff (1692–1757)
1748–1750: Johann Ernst von Voß (1726–1793)
1750–1756: Hans Dietrich von Maltzahn

1757 to 1763: Break in relations during the Seven Years' War

1763–1765: Adolf Friedrich von Buch (1732–1811)
1765–1775: Adrian Heinrich von Borcke (1736–1791)
1775–1775: Joachim Erdmann von Arnim (1741–1804)
1775–1787: Philipp Karl von Alvensleben (1745–1802)
1787–1792: Karl Friedrich von Geßler (1753–1829)
1792–1794: Friedrich Abraham Wilhelm von Arnim (1767–1812)
1795–1806: Carl Christian von Brockhausen (1767–1829)

Prussian envoy in the Kingdom of Saxony

1807-18 ??: Peter Lautier, chargé
18 ?? - 1813: Karl Friedrich von Geßler (1753–1829)
1813–1816: vacant
1816–1819: Johann Christian Magnus von Oelsen (1775–1848)
1819–1848: Johann Ludwig von Jordan (1773–1848)
1848-1850: Julius von Canitz and Dallwitz (1815-1894), chargé
1850–1852: Ferdinand von Galen (1803–1881)
1852–1852: von der Schulenburg
1853–1859: Heinrich Alexander von Redern (1802–1888)
1859–1859: Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde (1825–1912)
1859–1863: Karl Friedrich von Savigny (1814–1875)
1863–1863: von Gundlach
1863–1864: Otto Carl Josias von Rantzau (1809–1864)
1864–1864: von Buddenbruck
1864–1866: Gustav von Schulenburg-Priemern ()

1866: Break in relations between June and October

1866–1867: from Landsberg-Steinfurt
1867–1873: Friedrich von Eichmann (1826–1912)
1873–1878: Eberhard zu Solms-Sonnenwalde (1825–1912)
1878–1879: Otto von Dönhoff ()
1879–1906: Carl August von Dönhoff (1833–1906)
1906–1911: Prince Hans zu Hohenlohe-Oehringen (1858–1945)
1911–1912: vacant
1912–1914: Alfred von Bülow (1851–1916)
1914–1919: Ulrich Karl Wilhelm von Schwerin (1864–1930)

Prussian ambassadors in the Free State of Saxony

1919–1920: vacant
1920–1922: Herbert von Berger (1881–1965)
1922–1924: Bells, Chargé d'Affaires

1924: Dissolution of the Legation on March 31st

literature

Leopold von Zedlitz-Neukirch : New Prussian Adelslexicon , Volumes 1 to 5 . Reichenbach brothers, Leipzig 1839.

Web links

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

Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (GStA PK), I. Main Department Repositur 81 Dresden Legation, researchable online at http://archivdatenbank.gsta.spk-berlin.de/midosasearch-gsta/MidosaSEARCH/i_ha_rep_81_dresden_nach_1807/index.htm

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Dresden Legation after 1807. Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (GStA PK), Berlin, 2008, accessed on November 11, 2013 .
^ Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden . Royal Saxon. Adreß-Comptoir, Dresden 1868, p. 221 ( online [accessed February 28, 2015]).
^ ^A ^b ^c 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. 313 f .
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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 , pp. 8, 17, 52, 138, 143, 380, 1055 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State: For the year 1800 . Georg Decker , Berlin 1800, p. 42 ( online [accessed February 28, 2015]).
^ ^A ^b Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation . History of the Prussian court and nobility and Prussian diplomacy. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 1851, p. 243 ( online [accessed February 28, 2015]).

[gsta-1] Dresden Legation after 1807. Secret State Archive of Prussian Cultural Heritage (GStA PK), Berlin, 2008, accessed on November 11, 2013 .

[2] Address and business manual of the royal capital and residence city of Dresden . Royal Saxon. Adreß-Comptoir, Dresden 1868, p. 221 ( online [accessed February 28, 2015]).

[Bringmann-3] A ^b ^c 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. 313 f .

[:0-4] ↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h 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 , pp. 8, 17, 52, 138, 143, 380, 1055 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[5] Handbook on the Royal Prussian Court and State: For the year 1800 . Georg Decker , Berlin 1800, p. 42 ( online [accessed February 28, 2015]).

[Vehse-6] A ^b Carl Eduard Vehse : History of the German courts since the Reformation . History of the Prussian court and nobility and Prussian diplomacy. Hoffmann and Campe , Hamburg 1851, p. 243 ( online [accessed February 28, 2015]).