Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff

Count Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff -Gutend ( October 31, 1801 in Kölzen ; September 17, 1858 in Munich ) was a Prussian diplomat .

family

Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff became the son of Baron ( Count since 1816 ) Adolph Franz Carl von Seckendorff , royal British and Brunswick-Lüneburg chamberlain , director of the estates of the Merseburg Monastery and heir to Kölzen and Starsiedel, as well as his wife Amalie Sophie Elisabeth, née Countess von Hardenberg (1767–1848), born. The names of his siblings are known:

• Carl von Seckendorff (born January 5, 1800 in Gera; † January 2, 1870), Prussian Oberbergrat ;
• Franz August von Seckendorff (* December 6, 1805; † unknown), Royal Prussian Privy Auditor, married to Clementine Luise (* May 29, 1813; † unknown), b. von Zerssen;
• Count Karl Adolf Friedrich von Seckendorff (* August 24, 1798; † July 3, 1827), royal Prussian government councilor and head of the royal military and building commission in Berlin , married to Juli (* April 24, 1796; † unknown), born. from Adeleben.

Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff was since April 21, 1839 with Countess Helene August Sophie (born March 3, 1811 in Schlawa, † May 31, 1876 in Potsdam), a daughter of Count Carl Stanislaus von Fernelmont (1785-1847), chamberlain , Councilor and baron von Baritz and hereditary lord on Schlawa . Together with his wife he had five sons and a daughter; of these are known by name:

• Kurt Bernhard von Seckendorff (born June 26, 1840; † unknown);
• Götz Burkhard von Seckendorff (born February 22, 1942, † 1910); Chamberlain and Chief Steward
• Gertrude Magdalene von Seckendorff (* February 18, 1846; † unknown), married to Lewis Pocock;
• Wolf Reinhard von Seckendorff (* July 29, 1848; † unknown).

Life

Up to the age of 12 his school education was carried out by private tutors in Kölzen and Merseburg. From 1813 to 1819 he attended the Roßleben monastery school in Thuringia and in 1819 began studying law at the University of Halle , which he continued at the University of Göttingen and graduated from the University of Berlin . During his studies in 1819 he became a member of the closer association of the fraternity source society in Halle.

In July 1822 he was hired by his uncle, State Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In April 1825 he was transferred to the embassy in Dresden , where he was appointed legation secretary in February 1826 and came as such to Copenhagen in 1827 and to Kassel in 1832 . After a brief assignment in the period from May to October 1833 as counselor to the legation in Madrid , he was then appointed legation secretary to the royal mission in London . During the absence of the actual mission bosses, Baron Heinrich von Bülow , he led multiple independently its business further, he that due to its repeatedly expressed request that an independent envoy posts to obtain than in December 1837 Charge d'Affaires in Brussels was appointed; there he was recalled in 1840 and remained without use until April 1841. In 1841 he came to the royal court in Hanover as an extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister , from there he moved to the legation post in Brussels in 1847, to Stuttgart in 1852 and from April 1858 to Munich , as the successor to Heinrich Friedrich Philipp von Bockelberg .

At the time of his death, Theodor Franz Christian von Seckendorff was Real Privy Councilor .

Awards

• In 1827 he was appointed chamberlain .
• In 1832 he received the Royal Prussian Order of St. John .
• Right knight of the Order of St. John .
• Knight of the Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class with the star.
• He received the Grand Cross of the Royal Hanoverian Guelph Order .
• He was the bearer of the Duke of Brunswick Order of Henry the Lion .
• He received the Royal Belgian Order of Leopold .
• He received the Royal Württemberg Order of Frederick .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Berliner Revue: social-political weekly. 1858, 4th quarter, pp. 121-122 . Heinicke, 1858 ( google.de [accessed January 20, 2018]).
2. ^ Genealogical paperback of the count's houses: 1850 . Perthes, 1850 ( google.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
3. ^ New Nekrolog der Deutschen, 5th year, 1827, 2nd part, pp. 665–666 . Voigt, 1829 ( google.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
4. ^ Genealogical paperback of the German count's houses: 1847, p. 196 . Perthes, 1847 ( google.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
5. ↑ Ernst Heinrich Kneschke: German count houses of the present in heraldic, historical and genealogical relation, p. 447 . TO Weigel, 1853 ( google.de [accessed June 18, 2018]).
6. ^ Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , p. 283.

predecessor	Office	successor
Resident in Kassel	List of Prussian ambassadors in Hanover 1841–1847	vacant
Rudolf von Sydow	List of German ambassadors in Belgium 1847–1852	Adolf von Brockhausen
Heinrich Friedrich Philipp von Bockelberg	List of Prussian ambassadors in Bavaria May 7, 1858 - September 17, 1858	Wilhelm Paul Ludwig zu Löwenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg