Georg Sibbern

Georg Christian Sibbern, ( born March 29, 1816 in Rygge, † October 4, 1901 ) was a Norwegian diplomat and politician.

Life

His parents were the bailiff and later State Sibbern Valentin (1779-1853) and his wife Anne Cathrine Stockfleth ( 1785-1865 ). He married on November 20, 1852 Maria Soane (18 September 1815-27. February 1885 ), daughter of the architect John Soane, Jr. ( 1786-1823 ) and his wife Mary Preston. Maria Soane was the diplomat Johan Gotthard Freiherr von Rehausen (1802-1854) widow.

Sibbern came from an officer and landowner family. He grew up on the family Værne monastery. 1822 the family moved to Christiania. There he attended the Cathedral School. In 1831 he passed the exam of Arts and began the study of law. In 1837 he put in this subject from the exam. Already in 1833 he had a job as a copyist in the Revisjonsdepartement. In 1838 he was " Fullmektig " in the State Council department in Stockholm. In 1840 he was on the recommendation of his brother, the Secretary of State Frederik Due " Annensekretær " the Foreign Ministry. In 1842 he was secretary of legation in St. Petersburg, Copenhagen, The Hague and London. In 1850 he was transferred to Washington, because he had an affair with the wife of his boss, the Messenger of Rehausen. He later married. In Washington he was " charge d' affaires ", then Consul General and Minister Resident in 1854. In 1856 he returned to Scandinavia, and was cabinet secretary Viceroy Crown Prince Charles John.

In 1857 he was a member of the Norwegian interim government, but in 1858 the diplomatic service turned to again and was ambassador in Constantinople Opel. During this time he was in frequent correspondence with his childhood friend Christian Birch - rich forest. The scoreboard shows that Sibbern for the replacement of the bureaucrats by politicians in government occurred. He also was critical of the lack of cooperation between the government and the Storting and the Norwegian distrust of Sweden. He favored a constitutional form of government on the English model.

Sibbern and Birch Reichenwald wanted to blow up the government to introduce this form of government. Following the Government in 1857 Sibbern left the diplomatic service and was born on December 16, 1858 Norwegian Minister of State in Stockholm. Due to the controversy over the revision of the Treaty on European Union, he left the government on 30 November 1861. On December 17, he returned to the office, there was a view that the protest of the Norwegian government against a common Union Committee in the governor dispute in the opinion to the King would be deleted.

Sibbern initially worked well with the strong man of the government Frederik Stang. But they evolved in different political directions. Stang was conservative, but Sibbern wanted to convene the Stortingssitzungen held every three years and annually drew to parliamentarism. He tried to improve the relationship between government and the Storting. After the defeat of the government on the issue of revision of the Treaty on European Union, he resigned on October 9, 1871, and lived on his estate Værne monastery, which he had bought in 1861 by the widow of his brother.

King Oscar I would later often replaced by Frederik Stang Sibbern, but this would rather be back in the diplomatic service and was Ambassador of ministerial rank in Paris. 1880 was the king again replace Stang by Sibbern. Sibbern began by the condition that Ole Jacob Broch will brought into the government. The king refused this, and Christian August Selmer was Minister of State. Sibbern returned to Paris and was from this time, a sharp critic of the government and the king. He was the Norwegian policy as " dreary " before. Nevertheless, he was in 1884 in conversation, in a government headed by Ole Jacob Broch to become prime again. But this was never a reality. Sibbern resigned and moved to Stockholm. After the death of his wife in 1885, he returned back to Værne monastery, which he had in 1879 transferred to the sons of his brother. He died there in 1901.

Honors

1840 Sibbern was appointed gentleman of the bedchamber, and in 1840 he was present at the coronation of Charles IV in Trondheim. On this occasion him the Grand Cross of St. Olav was awarded the Order. In 1853 he was a knight, and from 1859 to 1871 he was chancellor of this order. He also had the Grand Cross of the Swedish Order of the North Star and a number of foreign decorations. In 1864 he received the Serafine north. He was also commander of the First Class of the Dannebrog and the Grand Cross of the Belgian Order of Leopold and the Grand Cross of the French Legion of Honor, the Grand Cross of the Italian Order of Knights of St.. Mauritius and Lazarus, the Dutch lion Order, the Romanian Star of Romania, the Grand Cross of Honour Tunisian north and owner of the First Class of the Ottoman mecidiye Order.

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The article is based on the Norsk biografisk leksikon. Any other information will be reported separately.

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