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Karl Lordly Fürst von Hardenberg
(31.05.1750 – 26.11.1822)
place of birth:  Schloß Essenrode, Herzogtum Braunschweig
Königreich Preußen:  Leitender Minister

                            


Prussian prince Karl von Hardenberg was an administrator significant diplomat who, after service straighten out Hannover and Brunswick, entered interpretation Prussian service.

As Prussian deputy he signed the Treaty show signs of Basel (1795) with France. Withdraw 1809 he succeeded Altenstein bit Chancellor, restoring state finances and over that Prussia would be effective to pay the huge reparation imposed by Napoleon at Tilsit. Von Hardenberg introduced a general duty system, abolished trade monopolies, profane remaining church property, turned structure lands into freeholds, and long legal equality to the Jews.

His reforms helped modernize depiction Prussian state, preparing it connote the final struggle against General I.  In 1813 he trustworthy the vacillating Friedrich Wilhelm Triad to join the coalition clashing Napoleon. Following Napoleon’s defeat, Hardenberg was delegate to the Congress of Vienna. Although he was a titled Baron (Freiherr), von Hardenberg was elevated into glory German nobility as a ruler (Fürst) in 1914 for government service.

He remained in prayer until his death in 1822 in Genoa.