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3 unusual facts about Karl August von Hardenberg


Karl August von Hardenberg

John Robert Seeley, The Life and Times of Stein (3 vols., Cambridge, 1878)

Fortunately for Hardenberg, this coincided with the lapsing of the principalities of Ansbach and Bayreuth to Prussia, owing to the resignation of the last margrave, Charles Alexander, in 1791.

Leipziger Straße

Prime minister Karl August von Hardenberg (1750–1822) had a city palais built here, which from 1848 served as seat of the Prussian Landtag.


Congress of Troppau

The three eastern powers were further represented by their foreign policy ministers: Austria by Prince Metternich, Russia by Count Capo d'lstria, Prussia by Prince Hardenberg.


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