Benjamin Bathurst (diplomat)
Benjamin Bathurst ( born March 14, 1784 in London, disappeared November 25, 1809 in Pearl Mountain ) was a British diplomat.
Life
Bathurst, third son of the Bishop of Norwich, Henry Bathurst, was commissioned in 1809 with a diplomatic mission. He had the Austrian Emperor Franz I. Proposals to renew the alliance between Great Britain and Austria brought in which Francis was encouraged to a declaration of war against France. These proposals agreed with the Emperor in April 1809 Bathurst had thus completed its mission successfully.
The war took an unfavorable course and ended with the Austrian defeat at Wagram on July 6, 1809. Bathurst had to leave Vienna and rushed back to London. He decided against a trip across the Mediterranean and instead chose a route that would take him to the land northward through nominally neutral states of the Confederation of the Rhine from Berlin to Hamburg.
On the 25th of November, Benjamin Bathurst, who traveled for safety under the false identity of a merchant named Baron de Koch, around noon, the city pearl mountain where he Gasthof Zum white swan lodged a rest and ate. Then he should have asked the local military commander Friedrich von Klitzing for protection, then this should have provided him two cuirassiers to the side; these monitored at Bathurst until he sent away around 19 clock. At about 9 clock in the evening he left the building to oversee the preparations for the onward journey in his carriage. From this point on his whereabouts is unknown; Benjamin Bathurst vanished under circumstances never fully clarified.
Benjamin Bathurst was survived by his wife Phillida Call, whom he had married on 25 May 1805 and his daughter Emmeline.
Aftereffect
The disappearance of the diplomat found its way into popular culture. For example, the UFA film have the higher command from 1935 (directed by Gerhard Lamprecht, Starring Karl Ludwig Diehl, Lil Dagover and Heli Finkenzeller ) and the story He walked around the horses of the American science fiction writer H. Beam Piper the incident to basis.