August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff
August Heinrich Hermann Graf von Dönhoff ( born October 10, 1797 in Potsdam, † April 1, 1874 at Castle Frederick Stein ( East Prussia ) ) was a Prussian diplomat.
His parents were the Prussian Colonel Count August Friedrich Philipp von Dönhoff (1763-1838) and his wife Countess Pauline von Lehndorff ( 1776-1813 ).
Life
Dönhoff made as a volunteer in the campaign of 1815, studied from 1816 to 1819 in Königsberg, Göttingen and Heidelberg and made it a trip to Italy. In 1818 he joined the Old Heidelberg fraternity. He began his diplomatic career in 1821 at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Berlin, was then at the embassies in Paris in 1823, in Madrid in 1825, London in 1828, where he played a significant role in the Conference on the Belgian affairs, and was employed in 1833 Envoy in Munich, in 1842 an envoy to the Bundestag in Frankfurt am Main.
In May 1848, he resigned, but was called the beginning of September 1848, the head of external affairs at the Ministry Pfuel, which position he held only a short time. He was then elected in February 1849 by the second Gumbinner constituency for deputies in the First Chamber and sent by this 1850 in the State House to Erfurt. In the summer of 1850 again elected a member of the First Chamber, he joined here of the right belonging, but more moderate party in Jordan. In 1851 he took part in the parliament of the province of Prussia and lived it to the Berlin Chamber of session 1851-1852 at. In the conversion of the First Chamber in the mansion, he was appointed by the King for hereditary member. In 1861 he was upper garment chamberlain at the court. He died in April 1874.
His Aunt Sophie of Dönhoff was married in morganatic marriage with Frederick William II.
Family
He married 1843 in Steinort Pauline von Lehndorff ( 1823-1889 ). The was the daughter of the Prussian Lieutenant General Karl Graf von Lehndorff (1770-1854) Owner of the Manor at Steinort and his wife Countess Pauline of Schlippenbach. The couple had three sons, including:
- August (1845-1920), member of the Prussian House of Lords and diplomat ∞ Maria von Lepel (1869-1940)