Baron Anton von Doblhoff-Dier (german: Anton Freiherr von Doblhoff-Dier) (10 November 1800 – 16 April 1872) was an

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statesman. Born in

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, he studied law at the

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then entered into the

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. In 1836 he retired to cultivate the manor estate of his uncle at Weikersdorf Castle in

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, where he excelled in

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studies. In the course of the Revolutions of March 1848 he became a

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member of the Austrian Reichstag, or Kremsier Parliament (Assembly at Kroměříž), and trade minister in the cabinet of Franz von Pillersdorf. Doblhoff-Dier himself resigned from all offices in the violent

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of October 1848. In the next year, he was appointed ambassador at

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, a post he held until 1858. In 1861 he became a member of the newly established Reichsrat, from 1867 onwards of the '' Herrenhaus''.

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