Count Otto von Bray-Steinburg

Otto Camillus Hugo Gabriel Graf von Bray- Steinburg ( born May 17, 1807 in Berlin, † January 9, 1899 in Munich) was a Bavarian politician.

Life

Otto von Bray- Steinburg was the son of coming from France diplomats and Imperial Council François Gabriel Count of Bray from the noble family of Bray.

Bray- Steinburg studied after leaving grammar school in 1825 at the ( present ) Wilhelmsgymnasium Munich in Göttingen and Munich law and then worked as a diplomat in Vienna, Paris and Athens. From 1843 to 1859 he was intermittently Bavarian envoy in Saint Petersburg. 1846/47 it was the first time, 1848/49 for the second time foreign minister. 1859/60 he was the ambassador in Berlin, then in Vienna. 1870 King Ludwig II appointed him again as Foreign Minister and Chairman of Ministers.

Bray- Steinburg said in the Franco- German war of 1870/71 as the only German politician in a controlling function originally against annexations of areas in France (eg, the Alsace and German Lorraine ) from. In the event that a cession of the territory of Alsace- Lorraine will inevitably, he said in a letter (4 September 1870) to the then Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Chancellor and Foreign Minister Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust, his personal friend from study days in Göttingen, for the creation of a neutral intermediate state under the House of Habsburg -Lorraine - Tuscany from. But a few days later waved Bray- Steinburg - because Prussia insisted on the annexation - the Prussian position.

Bray- Steinburg was responsible negotiations for the admission of Bavaria in the German Empire, where he Bavaria important special rights (in particular self- Bavarian army; exceptions to the responsibilities of the empire ) was able to secure. Because of his opposition to the Bavarian culture war politics, he joined in 1871 as Secretary of State and was until 1897 again Bavarian envoy in Vienna.

1849 Honorary Citizen of the city of Passau, he was awarded.