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Count Anton zu Stolberg-Wernigerode (born: 23 October 1785 at Schloss Wernigerode; died: 11 February 1854 in Berlin), was chief minister in Magdeburg, governor in the Prussian Province of Saxony and Prussian Minister of State. == Life == Count Anton was a fourth Son of the reigning Count Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode and the Countess Auguste Eleonore of Stolberg-Stolberg. He entered into the Prussian military service in 1802. He participated in the Napoleonic wars part, and was Lieutenant General and commander of the 27th Landwehr Regiment. On 18 December 1815, his father had transferred the Lordship of Grodztwo ((ドイツ語:Kreppelhof)) in Silesia to him in fideicommiss and majorat. 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 primogeniture. In 1831, he inherited the Lordship of Diersfordt near Wesel from his brother-in-law Baron Christopher Alexander Charles Frederick of Wylich. In 1828, he became governor of the Landkreis Kamienna Góra ((ドイツ語:Landeshut in Silesien)). In 1834, he was appointed chief minister in Düsseldorf. In 1837, he was appointed chief minister in Magdeburg as well as governor of the Prussian Province of Saxony. He was made an honorary citizen of Magdeburg in 1841. In 1840, he was appointed as a confidant of the king Frederick William IV of Prussia of Prussia. 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 adjutant general 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 Friedrich August Stüler. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Anton of Stolberg-Wernigerode」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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