Friedrich Albrecht zu Eulenburg

Friedrich Albrecht Graf zu Eulenburg ( born June 29, 1815 in Königsberg, † June 2, 1881 in Schöneberg near Berlin) was a Prussian statesman.

His parents were Friedrich Leopold von Eulenburg (1787-1845) Owner of the Manor at Perkuiken and his wife Amalie von Kleist (1792-1830) daughter of the landscape director Christoph von Kleist.

Eulenburg first worked as a government official in Opole and in various ministries in Berlin, before he entered the diplomatic service in 1852, first as Consul General in Antwerp. As a result of increased activity in foreign trade Prussia needed its own trade agreements with hopeful partners in Southeast Asia and East Asia. In October 1859 we presented Eulenburg at the head of the Prussian East Asia expedition to conclude trade, friendship and navigation treaties with Japan and China. The agreement with Japan came on 24 January 1861 of the existence of China on September 2, 1861. In addition Eulenburg took the opportunity to back India ( Siam, Burma and Laos) to inspect and prepare a report on the economic and cultural situation.

On December 8, 1862, he was appointed Minister of the Interior of Prussia. 1864 and 1866 were new administrative territories to Prussia, Eulenburg used this to a comprehensive administrative reform in the old provinces. Here, however, he fell through the oppositional attitude of Catholics in the West and the liberal forces in the East in a predicament that Otto von Bismarck exacerbated by his uncompromising attitude. After longer - less fertile - negotiations, he finally resigned on 30 March 1878 and was succeeded by his nephew Wendt Botho Graf zu Eulenburg. On June 2, 1881, he died unmarried in Schöneberg in Berlin.