Ludwig von Plessen-Cronstern
Ludwig Gabriel Magnus (Mogens) Count von Plessen-Cronstern (until 1898: Freiherr von Scheel-Plessen ) (born September 11, 1848 in Lindholm, Gevninge Sogn , Denmark ; † July 18, 1929 in Nehmten ) was a German diplomat.
Life
Ludwig von Plessen-Cronstern came from the originally noble Mecklenburg-Holstein noble family von Plessen ; he was born as the son of the President of Schleswig-Holstein Carl von Scheel-Plessen and Henriette. born of Cronstern. After visiting the Vitzthumschen Gymnasium in Dresden he studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn Law . In 1868 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn .
After graduating, he became a Prussian and German diplomat. From 1888 until he was German consul general in Budapest . From 1890 to 1894 he was the Prussian envoy at the Hessischer Hof in Darmstadt . From 1894 to 1902 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the German Empire at the Greek Court in Athens . From 1902 to 1907 he was again the Prussian envoy at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart . Von Plessen-Cronstern was married to Leopoldine Countess Hoyos (1870–1935), the sister-in-law of Herbert von Bismarck . The German diplomat Leopold von Plessen was her son.
He inherited that from his mother Henriette, b. Schreiber von Cronstern, brought in Fideikommiss , which included the goods Nehmten, Marutendorf and Hohenschulen (districts of Achterwehr ).
Awards
- August 17, 1898: Elevation to the Prussian count status
- Appointment to the Real Secret Council
- Grand Ducal Hessian Order of Merit (Philipps Order), Grand Cross (1894)
literature
- Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 173
- GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 166
- 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. 76, 86 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ludwig Mogens Gabriel, Count von Plessen-Cronstern on www.geneall.net
- ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 448
- ↑ Grand Ducal Hessian Order List 1907, p. 128
See also
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Plessen-Cronstern, Ludwig von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Plessen-Cronstern, Ludwig Gabriel Magnus Graf von; Plessen-Cronstern, Ludwig Gabriel Mogens Count of; Scheel-Plessen, Ludwig Freiherr von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1848 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lindholm, Gevninge Sogn , Denmark |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 18, 1929 |
| Place of death | Took |