Ludwig Karl Georg of Ompteda

Ludwig Karl Konrad Georg von Ompteda (born November 18, 1767 in Wulmstorf , † August 26, 1854 in Celle ) was a Hanoverian diplomat .

Life

His parents were Johann Heinrich von Ompteda (* 1730, † 1776) and Sophie Dorothea geb. v. Bonar de Russie. He attended the Knight Academy in Lüneburg until he studied law in Göttingen in 1787 . In 1790 he became an auditor at the judiciary in Hanover , in 1791 legation secretary in Dresden and in 1795 business secretary in Berlin .

In 1800 he was appointed war council and general post director in Hanover. In 1803 he was the Hanoverian envoy at the Prussian court in Berlin , in 1806 envoy at the Saxon court in Dresden , in 1813 again envoy in Berlin and in 1817 again envoy in Dresden.

He married Countess Christiane von Schlippenbach on December 19, 1800 (* May 15, 1767, widow of Count Wilhelm Christian zu Solms-Sonnenwalde-Rhaesa (* 1756, † 1799)).

In 1823 he was State and Cabinet Minister in Hanover. From February 13, 1831 to June 20, 1837 he was Minister and Head of the German Chancellery in London ("with the King Wilhelm IV person at the court of St. James in London"). When the Hanoverian King Ernst August ascended to the throne , he resigned and lived in Celle until his death in 1854.

Works

A Hanover-English officer a hundred years ago: Christian Friedrich Wilhelm Freiherr von Ompteda, Colonel and Brigadier in the Royal German Legion, November 26, 1765 to June 18, 1815. Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1892
Odd journeys and adventures of a middle-class diplomat - an image of life and culture from around 1800 . Leipzig: Verlag von S. Hirzel, 1894

literature

Roderich Freiherr von Ompteda (ed.): Notes of a German diplomat, 1804–1813 . Berlin, German publishing company 1935
Political estate of the Hanoverian State and Cabinet Minister from 1803 to 1814 . Published by F. v. Ompteda, 3 Abt., Jena, printed and published by Friedrich Frommann 1866–1869
Ludwig Friedrich Christian Carl von Ompteda: From England: New Pictures from Life in England. Berlin: Hofmann, 1882
Ferdinand Frensdorff : Ompteda, Ludwig Karl Georg von . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 24, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1887, pp. 355-358.

Web links

Dieter Brosius: Ompteda, from. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 534 f. ( Digitized version ).
Dieter Brosius: Ompteda, Ludwig Conrad Georg. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 535 f. ( Digitized version ).

Individual evidence

^ New Prussian Adels-Lexicon, Leipzig 1839, p. 424. Cf. Gritzner, Maximilian, (Johann) Siebmacher 'Großes Wappenbuch, Vol. 1, The coats of arms of the high German nobility, Bauer and Raspe, Neustadt an d. Aisch 1972, p. 61.
^ Von Hassell, Wilhelm, Das Kurfürstenthum Hannover from the Peace of Basel to the Prussian occupation in 1806 - according to archival and handwritten sources, Hannover: C. Meyer 1894, p. 52.

personal data
SURNAME	Ompteda, Ludwig Karl Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Ompteda, Ludwig Karl Konrad Georg von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	November 18, 1767
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wulmstorf
DATE OF DEATH	August 26, 1854
Place of death	Celle

[1] New Prussian Adels-Lexicon, Leipzig 1839, p. 424. Cf. Gritzner, Maximilian, (Johann) Siebmacher 'Großes Wappenbuch, Vol. 1, The coats of arms of the high German nobility, Bauer and Raspe, Neustadt an d. Aisch 1972, p. 61.

[2] Von Hassell, Wilhelm, Das Kurfürstenthum Hannover from the Peace of Basel to the Prussian occupation in 1806 - according to archival and handwritten sources, Hannover: C. Meyer 1894, p. 52.