Ludwig Philip of Bombelles

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Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles (1837), drawing by Moritz Daffinger

Ludwig Philipp, Count of Bombelles (born July 1, 1780 in Regensburg , † July 7, 1843 in Vienna ) was an Austrian diplomat .

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Coming from an originally Portuguese - French aristocratic family, Count Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles was born in Regensburg on July 1, 1780 as the son of the general, diplomat and later Bishop of Amiens (1817) Marc Marie Marquis de Bombelles and Princess Angélique de Mackau .

He was first in Austrian, then in Neapolitan military service. Driven from Naples by the revolution, he was employed in Vienna at the secret state chancellery. Then he was assigned to the Austrian embassy in Berlin under Metternich . There he was the one who, as a special eyewitness, emphasized the public shock over the death of Queen Luise of Prussia in his reports. Later appointed chargé d'affaires at the Berlin court, he succeeded King Friedrich Wilhelm III in 1813 . to Wroclaw and then received a mission to Copenhagen to meet King Frederick VI. to withdraw from Denmark from the alliance with Napoleon Bonaparte .

Ida Brun, by Johann Ludwig Lund, 1811

After the first Peace of Paris , he was Austrian ambassador in Copenhagen, where he 1816 to Ida Brun ( 1792 - 1856 ), a daughter of the merchant Constantin Brun and the author Friederike Brun married, then in Dresden , where his house through musical and dramatic Conversation became the focus of high society.

He attended the Congress in Karlsbad in 1819 as the representative of Austria and followed the instructions received from Vienna with ruthless severity. Transferred from Dresden to Naples as Austrian envoy, the revolution that broke out there prevented him from taking up his post. After that he acted as envoy at the courts of Florence , Modena and Lucca , at the Turin court, and from 1832 in Bern .

As the Austrian envoy there and plenipotentiary minister to the Swiss Confederation , as a confidante of Metternich and a supporter of the restoration policy, he represented an extreme opposition to all liberal tendencies. His policy went hand in hand with the papal nuncio and advocated a “policy of the strong hand” , which also did not rule out Austrian military intervention in Switzerland .

Ludwig Philipp von Bombelles died on July 7, 1843 in Vienna.

His brother Heinrich Franz von Bombelles was also a diplomat and also educator of the grandchildren of Emperor Franz II , especially the later Emperor Franz Joseph I - Charles-René de Bombelles (1785-1856), his other brother, was chief steward and minister at the court of Parma and the third husband of Marie-Louise of Austria .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lucius Grisebach / Konrad Renger: Festschrift for Otto von Simson on his 65th birthday, Propylaen Verlag 1977, p. 516
  2. ↑ mvdok.lbmv.de
  3. ↑ Luzius Lenherr, Ultimatum to Switzerland, 1991.
predecessor Office successor
vacant Imperial and Royal Austrian envoy in Dresden
1816–1820 		Anton Pálffy
Adam of Ficquelmont kk Austrian envoy in Florence
1820–1829 		Franz Josef von Saurau
Franz Binder von Krieglstein kk Austrian envoy in Bern
1837–1843 		Eugen von Philippsberg
personal data
SURNAME Bombelles, Ludwig Philipp von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bombelles, Ludwig Philipp Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1780
PLACE OF BIRTH regensburg
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1843
Place of death Vienna