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Ewald Friedrich, count von Hertzberg: Quick Facts

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Born September 2, 1725 • Germany
Died May 27, 1795 (aged 69) • Berlin • Germany
Title / Office foreign minister (1763-1791), Prussia

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Hertzberg, detail from a miniature by Gustav Taubert, 1792
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Portrait painting of Frederick II of Brandenburg, King of Prussia, wearing a dark coat with a star medal, yellow gloves, and holding a cane, with the inscription Fridericus II Rex Prussiae.
Frederick II
king of Prussia
Otto von Bismarck in military uniform and cap, with a mustache, facing slightly to the side in a black-and-white portrait taken around 1880.
Otto von Bismarck
German chancellor and prime minister
Karl August, Fürst von Hardenberg
Karl August von Hardenberg
Prussian statesman
Painting by Antoine Pesne showing King Frederick I seated on an ornate silver throne, wearing elaborate royal robes and holding a scepter, with a crown on a table beside him.
Frederick I
king of Prussia
Joseph Maria von Radowitz.
Joseph Maria von Radowitz
Prussian diplomat
Haugwitz, drawing, before 1776; in the Lavater portrait collection
Christian, count von Haugwitz
Prussian minister and diplomat
Portrait of Catherine the Great of Russia by Richard Brompton, showing her in regal attire with a jeweled crown and fur-trimmed robe, set in an ornate oval frame.
Catherine the Great
empress of Russia
Portrait painting of Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, wearing a black and red military coat with medals and a sash, with St. Peter's Basilica visible in the background.
Joseph II
Holy Roman emperor
Maria Theresa
Maria Theresa
Holy Roman empress
Bernhard, Fürst von Bülow
Bernhard, prince von Bülow
chancellor of Germany
Panin, detail of a portrait by A. Roslin, 1777
Nikita Ivanovich Panin
Russian statesman
Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz
Wenzel Anton von Kaunitz
chancellor of Austria
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg
German statesman
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Christian Günther, count von Bernstorff
Danish diplomat
Leopold von Gerlach, detail from a lithograph
Leopold von Gerlach
Prussian general
Helmuth von Moltke, 1871
Helmuth von Moltke
German general [1800–1891]
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
Karl, Reichsfreiherr vom und zum Stein
prime minister of Prussia
Carl von Clausewitz
Carl von Clausewitz
Prussian general
Frederick William IV
Frederick William IV
king of Prussia
Frederick William I
Frederick William I
king of Prussia