Nikolaus von Pottenburg

Nikolaus von Pottenburg (around 1859) lithograph by J. Kriehuber

Baron Nikolaus von Pottenburg , until 1870 Nikolaus Zulauf von Pottenburg (* 1822 in Vienna , † February 18, 1884 in Stuttgart ) was an Austrian diplomat at the time of the Italian and German Wars of Unification.

Life

Nikolaus von Pottenburg studied law at the University of Vienna from 1840 to 1844 , where he a. a. also met with the poet Alexander Julius Schindler . In 1844 he became a concept intern at the Lower Austrian provincial government , and from 1848 served as the secretary of Count Montecuccoli-Laderchi in Count Radetzky's quarters in Lombardy-Veneto . After the revolutions of '48 / 49 he entered the foreign service, from 1852 as legation secretary at the legation in Turin , then in 1854 in the same function in Kassel , and in 1856 in Stockholm . After the outbreak of war in Italy (1859) v. Pottenburg to the British government in London for alliance support for Austria. After further positions in Madrid and Hanover , he became chargé d' affaires in Karlsruhe in 1865 , and was able to keep the Baden government on the Austrian side until the war with Prussia (1866) .

After the Peace of Prague (1866) he was first chargé d'affaires in Bern , then a diplomat. Agent and consul general in Bucharest (1868) and Austrian representative at the Danube Commission . From 1871 in the rank of kuk extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister , he headed a number of European embassies for the next few years: from 1872 in Athens , from 1874 in Stockholm , and from 1879 in Stuttgart (with additional accreditation in Baden and Hessen-Darmstadt) . Pottenburg died in Stuttgart in 1884.

Honors

Pottenburg was ennobled in 1866 and raised to the baron status in 1870.

• 1866: Knight of the austrian emperor. Leopold Order
• 1867: Knight 2nd class of the Grand Duke. bath. Order of the Zähringer Lion
• 1870: Knight 2nd class of the Austrian Order of the Iron Crown
• 1881: Knight of the royal. Swedish North Star Order
• 1883: Privy Council

Web links

• R. Agstner:  Pottenburg, Nikolaus Frh. Von. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 8, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-7001-0187-2 , p. 234.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Erwin Matsch: The Foreign Service of Austria (Hungary) 1720–1920. Böhlau, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-205-07269-3 .
2. ↑ ^{a b} Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbook of diplomacy 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad Metternich to Adenauer. KG Saur, Munich 2012.
3. ↑ Nikolaus von Pottenburg in the Dodis database of diplomatic documents of Switzerland
4. ^ Yearbook: Heraldisch-Genealogischer Verein Adler . Braumüller, Vienna 1874, p. 218.
5. ↑ Court and State Handbook of the Grand Duchy of Baden . Braun, Karlsruhe 1868, p. 95.
6. ↑ Allgemeine Zeitung . Munich 1870, p. 1562.
7. ↑ d. July 11th, Baron Nicolaus von Pottenburg . In: Vetenskapsakademi (ed.): Sveriges statskalender för år 1881 . Kongl. Boktryckeriet, PA Norstedt & Söner, 1881, ZDB -ID 205099-7 , p. 422 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Karl von Haymerle	Austro-Hungarian envoy to Greece 1872–1874	Joachim Eduard von Münch-Bellinghausen
Otto von Walterskirchen	Austro-Hungarian envoy to Sweden 1874–1879	Karl von Pfusterschmid-Hardtenstein
Karl von Pfusterschmid-Hardtenstein	Austro-Hungarian envoy to Württemberg 1879–1884	Nikolaus von Wrede