Andrey Fedorovich Budberg
Andreas Fyodorovich of Budberg - Bœnninghausen, completely Andreas Ludwig Karl Theodor von Budberg, Baron of Bœnninghausen (Russian: Андрей Фёдорович Будберг; * 8 Januarjul / January 20 1817greg in Riga, .. † 28 Januarjul / February 9 1881greg in. . Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian diplomat and ambassador deutschbaltischer origin in Frankfurt, Berlin and Paris.
Life and work
He came from a family that belonged to the knights of Livonia. His father was the Russian Colonel Theodor Otto von Budberg - Bœnninghausen from the house Widdrisch (1779-1840), his mother Helene Juliane, born of Budberg (1787-1856) from the House of Magnus, a daughter of Andreas von Budberg. He attended the Cathedral School and Knight in Riga and the University in St. Petersburg. In 1841 he entered the Russian diplomatic service.
In 1845 he was sent as secretary of legation to the Russian legation in the German Confederation and the Hessian Grand Duchies of Hesse -Kassel and Hesse -Darmstadt in Frankfurt am Main, where at this time of Peter Oubril was the ambassador. He married Oubrils daughter Marie (1819-1913) and, after his death in 1848 chargé. In 1850 he was transferred to the same property to Berlin to the Russian legation to Prussia and Mecklenburg -Schwerin and Mecklenburg- Strelitz. In 1851 he was promoted to ambassador. From 1852 to 1855 he was also responsible for the Kingdom of Hanover. In 1856 he went as an envoy to the k.k. Court in Vienna. From 1858 to 1862 he was back in Berlin and then ambassador in Paris. Beginning in 1868 it came to a duel request by Mr. von Meyendorff, a son of his predecessor Peter von Meyendorff, to an affair. Budberg submitted his resignation and traveled to Munich, where he underwent on April 14, 1868 the duel, in which he was slightly wounded.
Back in Russia, he was appointed in May 1868 as a member of the State Council.
In 1872 he gave the correspondence of the Empress Catherine II with her ambassador in Stockholm, his grandfather Andrew of Budberg ( 1750-1812 ), out.
Of his sons, Theodore was of Budberg (1851-1916) nearly twenty years diplomatic posts in Vienna, from where he was sent in 1905 as ambassador to Stockholm; 1909 until his death he was ambassador in Madrid. Alexander von Budberg (1853-1914) became Chief Conductor of the Bittschriftenkanzlei (1899-1913), Secretary of State and 1913 chief hunter.