Peter Heinrich August von Salviati

Peter Heinrich August von Salviati (born March 25, 1786 in Berlin , † February 14, 1856 in Weimar ) was a German diplomat.

Life

family

The grandfather of Peter Heinrich August von Salviati , Angelo Maria Salviati (* 1717; † February 25, 1782), immigrated to Prussia around 1740 .

He was the son of Carl Benjamin von Salviati (March 27, 1751; † July 18, 1803 ibid), excise and customs inspector and engraver and his wife Helene Anna Wilhelmine (born May 13, 1759 in Berlin; † May 8, 1835 ibid.) ), a daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm Culemann (1710–1760). His brother was Karl Wilhelm von Salviati, captain in the Prussian service.

On February 22, 1823 Peter Heinrich August von Salviati in married Brussels Marie Dorothee Karoline (born May 8, 1802 in Brussels, † May 8, 1871 in Dresden ), daughter of the Saxon Consul General in Brussels, Johann Heinrich Christian Wilhelm Rahlenbeck (1777-1849 ). Together they had two sons and a daughter:

• Karl von Salviati, on Gossendorf and Busengraben (born December 3, 1823 in Haag ; † August 18, 1878 in Busengraben near Vacha ), Prussian Privy Councilor, married to Helene (born June 3, 1821 in Weimar; † August 10, 1899 in Dresden), daughter of Friedrich Wilhelm von Bielke (1780–1850), Saxon real privy councilor and chief steward ;
• Alexander von Salviati (1827–1881), Prussian lieutenant general and grandfather of Hans-Viktor von Salviati (1897–1945), who was executed by the National Socialists on April 22, 1945 for participating in the uprising of July 20, 1944 , and grandfather of Dorothea von Salviati (1907–1972) became the morganatic wife of Prince Wilhelm of Prussia (1906–1940) in 1933 ;

• Juliane Auguste Henriette Karoline Mathilde von Salviati (born November 21, 1832 in Stuttgart ; † March 25, 1892 ibid), was married in the first marriage to the Saxon Premier Lieutenant Charles Frederick James William George Rocheid from Inverleith in Scotland and in the second marriage with Baron Julius Ernst Hermann Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1827–1882), parents of the diplomat Hilmar von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen

Career

Peter Heinrich August von Salviati attended the French grammar school in Berlin and studied law from 1805 to 1807 at the University of Frankfurt (Oder) . After his studies he was alone in Berlin because he had already lost his father in 1803 and his mother and sister were staying on an uncle's estate in Prussia because of the troubled political conditions at the time.

In 1809 he was commissioned to teach history and Prussian literature to Princess Charlotte of Prussia , and a little later he represented Heinrich Menu von Minutoli , educator of Prince Carl of Prussia , when he was on leave of several months.

In February 1813 he went to Breslau to serve the king in the army; However, because his brother, Wilhelm von Salviati, already served as an officer, and one wanted to use the skills of Peter Heinrich August von Salviati differently, he became an unskilled worker in the War Ministry. Later he was added to the Governor General of the Mecklenburg Lands and the Hanseatic Cities, Dawid Maximowitsch Alopaeus , as an attache and remained with him until the General Government was dissolved.

In August 1813 the State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg sent him to London on special assignments . When he returned from London in December 1813, he was appointed legation secretary at the royal embassy in Hague, but worked in the office of the state chancellor until the Peace of Paris , which he followed to Paris .

In 1816 he was appointed Legation Councilor and went to his post in Hague.

Because the head of the royal embassy in The Hague was often absent, Peter Heinrich August von Salviati managed the affairs almost entirely by himself and thereby earned the minister's approval; After the envoy Franz Ludwig von Hatzfeldt was transferred to Vienna in May 1822, Peter Heinrich August von Salviati was given the duties of the envoy.

From May 1824 he was the royal chargé d'affaires in Madrid , representing the envoy for about a year . After his return from Spain in 1825, he spent a long time in Berlin, where he devoted himself to the affairs of the French colony , to which his family had belonged since they settled in Prussia. There he was church elder and member of the consistory of the colony.

In 1828 he became a Privy Counselor appointed and went as charge d'affaires to Stuttgart, a position which he as Minister Resident and also the Prince of Hohenzollern accredited , exercised for ten years. In 1839 he was recalled from Stuttgart, but remained accredited at the Hohenzollern court for some time and then lived in Berlin.

In 1841 he was appointed Minister-Resident at the grand-ducal court in Weimar . This post was canceled in 1848, whereupon he decided to retire from the diplomatic service. He spent the rest of his life in Weimar.

Honors

• During the coalition wars he received the Iron Cross on a white ribbon .
• For his services in Madrid he received the Order of the Red Eagle 3rd Class and the Commander's Cross with the Star from the Spanish Order of Charles III.
• In 1828 he received the Knight's Cross of the Order of the Dutch Lion from King Friedrich Wilhelm IV .
• On September 12, 1830, he and his brother Wilhelm were accepted into the Prussian nobility.
• On the part of Württemberg, his services to the establishment of the Zollverein were recognized by the award of the Commander's Cross from the Order of the Württemberg Crown .
• In 1833 he received the ribbon for the Order of the Red Eagle.
• In 1836 he was awarded the Royal Prussian Order of St. John .
• In 1848 he was awarded the Commander's Cross 1st Class with the star of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order and House Order of the White Falcon .

literature

• Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 1, 1892, pp.498f

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berlin Review 1856 . 5th volume, 2nd quarter. F. Schneiber, 1856, p. 409-411 ( google.de [accessed January 7, 2018]).
2. ^ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: New general German Adels Lexicon, p. 30 . Georg Olms Verlag, 1973, ISBN 978-3-487-40325-0 ( google.de [accessed April 30, 2018]).
3. ↑ Uta Motschmann: Handbook of Berlin Associations and Societies 1786-1815 . Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-038093-4 ( google.de [accessed April 30, 2018]).
4. ^ Family tree of Marie Dorothee Karoline Rahlenbeck. Accessed April 30, 2018 . 
5. ↑ GEDBAS: Marie Dorothee Caroline Rahlenbeck. Retrieved April 30, 2018 . 
6. ^ Heinrich von Salviati born 26 Feb 1786 Berlin died 14 Feb 1856 Weimar: Stammreihen.de. Retrieved April 30, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Alphabetical evidence (address book) of the aristocracy resident in the Prussian states with mansions, p. 101 . Ed., 1857 ( google.de [accessed April 30, 2018]).
8. ^ Leopold Freiherr von Ledebur: Archive for German Aristocratic History, Genealogy, Heraldry and Sphragistics. Quarterly magazine, p. 335 . L. von Warnsdorff, 1863 ( google.de [accessed April 30, 2018]).