Ludwig von Starhemberg

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Prince Ludwig von Starhemberg, portrait by an unknown painter

Prince Ludwig von Starhemberg , full name Ludwig Joseph Maximilian von Starhemberg (born March 12, 1762 in Paris , † September 2, 1833 in Dürnstein , Lower Austria ) was an Austrian diplomat and since 1802 Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece .

Life

Origin and youth

Ludwig von Starhemberg was the son of Prince Georg Adam Starhembergs , the Austrian ambassador at the court of Louis XV. and his second wife Franziska von Salm-Salm. His godfather was the French king himself.

Youth and education

Ludwig von Starhemberg spent most of his youth in Brussels , where his father was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary. Ludwig was introduced to society at an early age and received a careful upbringing, which included learning the classical languages ​​of Greek and Latin as well as mathematics, physics, history, philosophy, religion and solid physical training.

His wife Marie Luise Franziska, daughter of Field Marshal Duke Karl Raimund Arenberg , who was married to him in Brussels in 1781 , came from the Belgian nobility. In 1786 he moved to Vienna.
His father's older brother, Count Ernst von Starhemberg, died childless. Three years earlier he had given his land to his younger brother Georg Anton, Ludwig's father, in return for a high annuity. These included the lords of Schaunberg, Eferding and Wagenberg in Upper Austria.
In Vienna he joined the Masonic Lodge Zur Neugekrönten Hope , to which Schikaneder and Mozart also belonged.

Professional career

The diplomatic career of the young Count and later Prince Ludwig began in Russia , in St. Petersburg , later he was in Hague, in the United Netherlands and finally culminated as ambassador in London . The aim of his policy was to get Great Britain militarily and financially as a partner to the great powers Austria, Prussia and Russia against Napoleonic France. Due to the high cost of living and representation, he got into a severe financial crisis with high debts.

When he returned to Austria in 1808, as Herr von Eferding , he ended a long-standing dispute between rulers and citizens by holding a great festival for all farmers and citizens. Whereby he did not call himself a master, but a father and friend . His two youngest children had to perform in Eferdinger peasant costume at this festival.

After further professional stays in London and finally Turin , he withdrew completely into private life, where he lived temporarily in Eferding and temporarily with his daughter who lived in Weinberg and Schwertberg .

He died in 1833 at his Wachau Castle in Dürnstein .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ StarhembergKarten.pdf , day of death in the Upper Austrian State Archives
predecessor Office successor
Johann Rudolf von Buol-Schauenstein Austrian envoy in The Hague
1791–1793 		Bernhard von Pelser
Johann Philipp von Stadion Austrian ambassador in London
1793–1810 		vacant
Adam Albert von Neipperg Austrian envoy in Turin
1815-1820 		Franz Binder von Krieglstein
personal data
SURNAME Starhemberg, Ludwig von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Starhemberg, Prince Ludwig von (full name); Starhemberg, Ludwig Joseph Maximilian von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian nobleman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1762
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH September 2, 1833
Place of death Dürnstein