August Freiherr von Wendland (1806–1884) was a diplomat from the
Kingdom of Bavaria to France.
He held the post of
Chargé d'affaires
A ''chargé d'affaires'' (), plural ''chargés d'affaires'', often shortened to ''chargé'' (French) and sometimes in colloquial English to ''charge-D'', is a diplomat who serves as an embassy's chief of mission in the absence of the ambassador ...
from 1847 to 1850, and the post of
Minister Plenipotentiary from 1850 to 1866.
A close friend of
Maximilian II of Bavaria, von Wendland purchased the former monastery of Bernried in August 1852. He commissioned Bavarian architect Franz Effner to transform it into the "Schloss Bernried", which dominates the small town of Bernried on
Lake Starnberg near
Munich.
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1806 births
1884 deaths
Diplomats of Bavaria
19th-century diplomats
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