Robert von der Goltz (diplomat)

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Robert Heinrich Ludwig von der Goltz

Robert Heinrich Ludwig Graf von der Goltz (born June 6, 1817 in Paris , † June 24, 1869 in Charlottenburg ) was a Prussian diplomat and politician .

Life

Robert was a son of the Prussian lieutenant general and envoy in Paris Heinrich von der Goltz and his wife Julie, née Freiin von Seckendorff . After the death of his father, he grew up under the tutelage of the Obermarschall von Maltzahn .

After Goltz had been taught by private teachers in Berlin, he passed the school leaving certificate at the Friedrichs-Gymnasium in Breslau on September 3, 1834 . He studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and the Schlesische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . There he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn (1835) and Borussia Breslau (1839). At the beginning of August 1937 he passed the first legal examination at the Berlin Superior Court. After graduating, he went on extensive trips.

In Prussia's internal administration, he took an active part in the German Revolution of 1848/49 . He also joined the moderate-liberal party during the reaction period. In 1852 he was elected to the Prussian House of Representatives for the Düsseldorf 3 constituency. In 1854 he resigned from office in order to be able to go to Athens as Prime Minister . He was envoy to the court of the Greek crown (1857) and to the court of the Ottomans (1859) in Constantinople .

In 1862 he was Otto von Bismarck's successor in Saint Petersburg , in 1863 in Paris, where he was first ambassador for Prussia until his death and then from January 1868 to the North German Confederation . He was at the court of Napoleon III. very popular, and his pro-Prussian attitude was undoubtedly due to Goltz '. He died in Charlottenburg at the age of 52 after undergoing tongue cancer surgery in Paris. He was buried in the family's mausoleum on Luisenfriedhof II .

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Mausoleum of the Counts von der Goltz on Luisenfriedhof II in Charlottenburg

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 11 , 206; 18 , 290.
  2. ↑ R. v. der Goltz: Ideas about the reorganization of the German Confederation and the German state constitutions, along with a sketch for a constitutional document for the German Confederation. 1848.
  3. ↑ Bernd Haunfelder : Biographical Handbook for the Prussian House of Representatives 1849-1867. (= Handbooks on the history of parliamentarism and political parties. Volume 5). Droste, Düsseldorf 1994, ISBN 3-7700-5181-5 , p. 110.
  4. ^ 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.
predecessor Office successor
Hermann von Thile royal Prussian envoy in Athens
1855-1859 		Georg von Werthern
Louis von Wildenbruch royal Prussian envoy to Constantinople
1859–1862 		Joseph Maria Anton Brassier de Saint-Simon-Vallade
Otto von Bismarck royal Prussian envoy to Saint Petersburg
1862–1863 		Heinrich Alexander von Redern
Otto von Bismarck royal Prussian envoy in Paris
1863–1869 		-

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SURNAME Goltz, Robert von der
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Goltz, Robert Heinrich Ludwig Graf von der (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Prussian diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1817
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1869
Place of death Charlottenburg