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2 unusual facts about Wilhelm Sponneck


Prince Julius of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg

Eighteen months later, the King returned from a walk to discover that, whilst he was out, Julius had invited seven ministers associated with the former, and deeply unpopular, King Otto to the Palace to discuss the removal of Count Sponneck, another of the King's advisors.

Wilhelm Sponneck

In January 1851, Sponneck travelled to Berlin and conducted negotiations with Prussia and Austria trying to establish a peace settlement that maintained the Danish/Schleswig/Holsteinish union while securing extra close ties between the two first components.



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