Maximilian von Berchem

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Grave of Count Maximilian von Berchem in the old northern cemetery in Munich

Count Maximilian von Berchem (born September 23, 1841 in Munich , † April 13, 1910 in Heidelberg ) was a German diplomat and ministerial official.

Life

Count Berchem came from the Piesing family of the von Berchem family and was the son of Chamberlain Count Caspar von Berchem (1807–1881) and his wife Sophie (1815–1898), née. Freiin von Eichthal , and thus a grandson of Simon von Eichthal and nephew of Karl von Eichthal .

He studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . With Hans von Kanitz , Hugo von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff , Georg von Kanitz , Ernst von Köller , Wilhelm von Königsmarck and Heinrich von Brockhausen he became active in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg in 1861 .

After his exams, he joined the diplomatic service of the Kingdom of Bavaria in 1867 . During the Franco-Prussian War he was Bavaria's representative at the headquarters . In 1871 he entered service in the Reich . He became first secretary of the embassy in Saint Petersburg (1875) and in Vienna (1878). Otto von Bismarck then appointed him as Consul General in Budapest . In 1885 Berchem was called back to the Foreign Office in Berlin as director of the trade policy department. In 1886 he became Undersecretary of State in the Foreign Office of the German Empire .

He retired in 1890 because of a reduction in competencies. He came into conflict with Friedrich August von Holstein , the Eminence Gray of the Empire.

In 1896 he inherited the rule of Kuttenplan in western Bohemia. From 1901 to 1904 he had the New Palace and a new rectory built. He set up a kindergarten in an extension to the Old Castle.

In 1879 Maximilian von Berchem married Princess Ernestine, Margravine von Pallavicini (1849–1936) in Salzburg . The couple had three daughters and three sons, including the diplomat Johannes (Hans) Graf von Berchem (1881–1961). He owned the property at Ainmillerstraße 25 in Munich. The eldest son Walter Graf von Berchem (1880–1967) inherited Kuttenplan.

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 71 , 598.
  2. ^ Gerhard Bellinger, Brigitte Regulator-Bellinger : Schwabings Ainmillerstraße and its most important residents. BoD, 2003, ISBN 3-8330-0747-8 , p. 230
  3. ↑ Berchem, Walther Graf v. , Database "State ministers, senior administrative officials and (NS) officials in Bavaria from 1918 to 1945"
  4. ↑ Order and arrangement according to the Handbuch für das Deutsche Reich for the year 1904 , p. 41
personal data
SURNAME Berchem, Maximilian von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berchem, Count Maximilian Sigismund Rudolf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ministerial official, Undersecretary in the Foreign Office
DATE OF BIRTH September 23, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH April 13, 1910
Place of death Heidelberg