Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (23 October 1785 − 11 February 1854), was chief minister in

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, governor in the

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and Prussian Minister of State.

Life

Count Anton was a fourth son of the reigning Count

Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode Count Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode (german: Christian Friedrich (Graf) zu Stolberg-Wernigerode; 8 January 1746, Wernigerode Castle – 26 May 1824, Peterwaldau) was the only son of Count Henry Ernest of Stolberg-Wernigerode, w ...

and the Countess Auguste Eleonore of

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, he was born at Schloss Wernigerode. He entered into the Prussian military service in 1802. He participated in the

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part, and was

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and commander of the 27th Landwehr Regiment. On 18 December 1815, his father had transferred the Lordship of Kreppelhof (Grodztwo) in

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(today part of

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, Poland) to him in

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and

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. This meant that he was not allowed to sell it and it would be owned by him and his descendants in perpetuity and it would be indivisible and inherited according to

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. In 1831, he inherited the Lordship of Diersfordt near

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from his brother-in-law Baron Christopher Alexander Charles Frederick von Wylich. In 1828, he became governor of the

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Landeshut in Silesien. In 1834, he was appointed chief minister in

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. In 1837, he was appointed chief minister in

as well as governor of the Prussian

. He was made an honorary citizen of Magdeburg in 1841. In 1840, he was appointed as a confidant of the king

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. He moved to Berlin and two years later he was appointed as Minister of State. After the March Revolution of 1848, he was forced to resign from this position. He was then

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of the king and in 1851 Minister of the Royal House. Count Anton died in 1854 and was buried in the cemetery of his family in Wernigerode. The tomb was designed by

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Marriage and issue

In 1809, Anton married Baroness Louise von der Recke (1787–1874). They had the following children: * Count Eberhard (1810–1872), succeeded his father as Lord of Kreppelhof, married on 2 May 1819 to Princess Marie of Reuss-Köstritz * Count Conrad (1811–1851), whose son, Count Udo inherited Kreppelhof in 1872, married 4 Oct 1838 to Baroness Marianne Sophie Eleonore von Romberg * Count Udo (1812–1826) * Countess Jenny (1813–1900), married on 12 July 1838 to Count Alexander von Keller (16 Juni 1801 – 30 May 1879) * Countess Marianne (1815–1844) * Countess Bertha (1816–1861) * Countess Elizabeth (1817–1822) * Countess

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(1819–1868) * Countess Charlotte (1821–1885), married on 24 July 1851 to Hans Hugo von Kleist-Retzow (25 November 1814 – 20 May 1892) * Count Bolko (1823–1884), married on 5 November 1853 to Elisabeth von Thun (22 August 1833 – 6 February 1900) * Countess Friederike (1824–1848) * Count Theodore (1827–1902), married on 16 April 1872 to Countess Klara von der

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(16 December 1849 – 8 May 1936)

References

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Brief Biography
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