Alexander von Schleinitz
Alexander Gustav Adolf Graf von Schleinitz ( born December 29, 1807 in Blankenburg am Harz, † February 19, 1885 in Berlin) was a Prussian Minister of State, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1858 to 1861 and from late 1861 until his death, Minister of the Royal House.
Life
He came from an old Meissen noble family, which was raised in the 16th century in the kingdom of baron, and was the son of Blankenburger government chairman and later Duke of Brunswick Minister of State Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Schleinitz ( 1756-1837 ) and Barbara von Hochstetter ( 1768-1819 ). He was the brother of William of Brunswick Minister of State Schleinitz (1794-1856) and the Prussian government of President Julius Schleinitz ( 1806-1865 ).
Until the revolution of 1848
Schleinitz studied at Göttingen and Berlin, entered 1828 in the Prussian civil service, in 1835 embassy attaché, 1841 Lecturer Council in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, resigned in July 1848 at the site of Heinrich Alexander von Arnim as Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Ministry Campenhausen, but gave this position after a few days back and was thereto Prussian ambassador at the Hanoverian court, in Oldenburg, in Brunswick and in Lippe -Detmold.
In May 1849, he negotiated the peace with Denmark, took over in July 1849 at the Ministry of Brandenburg again the portfolio of foreign affairs, but withdrew because his German - patriotism with the passage of Prussian policy was not the same, on September 26, 1850 Secret as Real advice from government service and lived since then to Koblenz in close correspondence with the court of the Prince of Prussia and at Schloss Gebesee in Thuringia.
Schleinitz was a member of the Corps Saxonia Hall since 1826.
New Era and Bismarck time
After the accession of the Prince Regent, the future King and Emperor William I, to his closest confidants he belonged, he took over the appointed by this Ministry in November 1858 the " New Era" again, the Department of Foreign Affairs. Guidelines of his foreign policy was an attempt of an alliance with England and Austria, the maintenance of the European balance and strengthening the role of Prussia in Germany. The difficulties of the liberal ministry in the interior led him in October 1861 to withdraw from it, and to take over the Ministry of the royal house, which he held until his death in 1885. Since then, he stood with Otto von Bismarck, the Prussian Prime Minister in 1862, in intimate hostility. Prussian liberals, but also Bismarck himself considered the home ministry at times as "counter Ministry " of Queen Augusta to the conservative government of the king.
On the occasion of the golden wedding anniversary of the imperial couple, he was raised with his wife on 11 June 1879 in the rank of count.
Marriage
Alexander v. Schleinitz was married since 1865 with 35 years younger than Marie of book ( 1842-1912 ), which was the most important Berlin salonière the imperial period as the Countess Schleinitz. Together with " Mimi " as she was called, he lobbied for Richard Wagner and the Bayreuth Festival, a.
The couple had no children. The common, non- preserved grave was located in the cemetery I of Trinity Church in Berlin.
Swell
- Schleinitz, Otto Freiherr von (Ed.), from the papers of the family v. Schleinitz. With a Preface by Fedor von Zobeltitz, Berlin, 1904.
- Otto von Bismarck, correspondence with the Minister Freiherr von Schleinitz, Stuttgart- Berlin 1905 edition: Björn Bedey (ed.), Severus, Hamburg 2011, ( German Empire - Chancellor Vol I / IV ), ISBN 978-3-86347 - 189-7