PRINCE HOHENLOHE.

Otago Witness, Issue 1893, 2 March 1888, Page 28

PRINCE HOHENLOHE.

Our cablegrams announce this week that Prince Hohenlohe, German Ambassador at St. Petersburg, had attempted to commit, suicide. The following particulars of his career, abridged from " Men of the Time," will be of interest :— >

Clodwig, Carl Victor, Prince of Hohoulohe-Sebil-lingsfurst, was born at Kothenburg on March .'U, 1819. Ho had just begun his historical aud judicial studies at Gottingen when his father died. A year later, after having passed his examination with distinction, he took a subordinate position in the public service and became heferendary of the Go* ernment at Potsdam. While working diligently at his post in Prussia, the Landgrave of Hessen-Rheinfels-Rothen-burg died, and the princely family of Hohenlohe succeeded to a rich inheritance, including the lordships of Hatibor and Corvey. The event, however, did not alter Clodwig's position. His elder brother took the domains of Ratibor and Corvey, to which the King of Prussia, William IV, added the title of duke. In 1845, on the death of his brother, Philip Ernest, Clodwig succeeded, with the consent ol his elder brother, to the old family seat of Schillingsfurst, and, forsaking the Prussian service, took up his permanent residence in Bavaria. Thus at 27 years of age he became an hereditary member of the Bavarian Parliament. Tha Ministry, meanwhile, in Frankfort, sent him as ambassador to Athens, Florence, and Rome. In. 1849 he returned to Frankfort. Having married the Princess of SaynWitgenstein,bywhom he has a numerous family, he retired for ten years into private life, paying frequent visits to England, France, and Italy. He re-entered Parliamentary life in 18t5O and favoured an alliance with Prussia. The youthful king in 18*50 requested Hohenlohe to prepare a programme of the principles which were to serve eventually as a Ministerial policy. Prince Hohenlohe fulfilled his commission to the satisfaction of the king, and in 1867, succeeded Pfordtun as Bavarian Minister. The whole of Geimany at last adopted the Hohenlohe programme. In 1868 and 1869, Prince Hohenlohe was elected Vice-president of the Customs Parliament of (ho German Federation. In his capacity as Foreign Minister of Bavaria, he issued his famous circular of lißsJ, directing the attention of the European Cabinets to the serious consequences likely to arfse from tho decrees ot the (Ecumenical Council of the Vatican. Hoping to get the Pope to withdraw his political opposition, and viewing mere religious innovations with extreme indifference, the Prussian Government slighted the warnings of the Bavarian Minister, and refused to take action against the contemplated decrees. In consequence of this desertion by the principal exponent of the Unity party, Prince Hohenlohe had to resign. He now resumed his seat in the Munich House of Peers, and in a few months, on France threatening war, made himself conspicuous by insisting upon the participation of Bavaria in the great national feud. Upon the successful termination of the war in 1871 , ho was elected member of the first German Parliament, and, in recognition of his patriotic deserts, immediately became vice-president thereof. In May 1871, after the deplorable exit of Count Harry Arnim, Prince Hohenlohe was chosen German Ambassador at Paris. He ■was one of the German plenipofcentiarieb at the Congress of Berlin in 1878. In August of .that year he was re-elected fo the Reichstag. After Marshal Manteuffel's death he was appointed Governor of Albace-Lorraiue. a position which he held until recently, whenhewas^tppointed German Ambassador to llus&ia.

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