Wulff Scheel-Plessen

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Wulff Scheel-Plessen

Wulff Bernhard Heinrich Lehnsgraf von Scheel-Plessen (born February 16, 1809 in Hanover ; † July 7, 1876 on Gut Sierhagen ) was a Holstein manor owner and Danish diplomat and politician.

family

Wulff Scheel-Plessen was born as the eldest son of the royal Danish secret conference councilor Mogens Joachim Lehensgraf von Scheel-Plessen and Margaretha Wilhelmine von Hedemann. Carl von Scheel-Plessen , Hugo von Plessen and Otto von Plessen were his brothers.

Life

Wulff Scheel-Plessen attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until Easter 1827 and then studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . In 1828 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn and in 1830 a member of the Corps Holsatia Göttingen and the Corps Holsatia Kiel . In 1835 he became an attaché at the Danish embassy in London . In 1836 he was transferred to the Danish embassy in Stockholm and stayed there for the next 10 years, only interrupted in 1842 by a temporary activity of a few months as chargé d'affaires in Saint Petersburg . On November 25, 1847, he was appointed Danish ambassador to the Prussian court in Berlin . After the outbreak of the Schleswig-Holstein uprising , he had to leave Berlin on April 28, 1848. In extraordinary missions he represented Denmark in June 1848 at the celebrations in Malmö on the occasion of the jubilee of King Oscar I and in the spring of 1849 in The Hague on the occasion of the accession of William III. (Netherlands)

From June 1849 to September 1850 he represented the Danish ambassador at the Swedish court in Stockholm. In October 1850 he accompanied Christian IX. on his trip to Nicholas I (Russia) in Warsaw . After a brief ambassadorial assignment in Vienna , he was chairman of the aristocratic assembly in Flensburg in April 1851. He took part in the negotiations with Felix zu Schwarzenberg to restore the Danish monarchy in the Duchy of Schleswig and the Duchy of Holstein , which led to the decree of January 28, 1852. In the autumn of 1852 he took up the post of ambassador in Stockholm. On December 12, 1854, he was appointed Danish Foreign Minister to the government under Prime Minister Peter Georg Bang , but abdicated on January 15, 1855 and remained in the office of Danish ambassador in Stockholm until 1872 after the German-Danish War . He supported the marriage of Frederick VIII (Denmark) with Louise of Sweden-Norway on July 28, 1869. He spent the last years of his life on the Sierhagen family estate.

Awards

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum zu Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907. (Supplement to the school program 1907), No. 211.
  2. ↑ Kösener Korpslisten 1910, "19", p. 18.
  3. ↑ Kösener Korpslisten 1910, "78", p. 66.
  4. ↑ Kösener Korpslisten 1910, "134", p. 121.
personal data
SURNAME Scheel-Plessen, Wulff
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheel-Plessen, Wulff Bernhard Heinrich Lehnsgraf von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Holstein manor owner, Danish diplomat and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1876
Place of death Sierhagen estate near Neustadt in Holstein