Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen

Austrian statesman

Date of Birth: 18-Jun-1763

Place of Birth: Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

Date of Death: 15-May-1824

Profession: politician, diplomat

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Johann Philipp Stadion, Count von Warthausen

  • Johann Philipp Carl Joseph, Graf von Stadion-Warthausen (18 June 1763 – 15 May 1824).
  • Born in Mainz, he was a statesman, foreign minister, and diplomat who served the Habsburg empire during the Napoleonic Wars.
  • He was also founder of Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank.
  • Johann Philip was Count of Stadion-Warthausen 1787–1806. In 1787–1790, he was ambassador in Stockholm, then in London from 1790–1793.
  • After some years of retirement he was entrusted with a mission to the Prussian court (1800–1803), where he endeavoured in vain to effect an alliance with Austria.
  • He had greater success as envoy at St Petersburg (1803–1805), where he played a large part in the formation of the third coalition against Napoleon (1805).
  • Notwithstanding the failure of this alliance, he was made foreign minister, and in conjunction with Archduke Charles of Austria pursued a policy of quiet preparation for a fresh trial of strength with France. In 1808 he abandoned the policy of procrastination, and with the help of Metternich, at that time, ambassador to Paris, hastened the outbreak of a new war.
  • Stadion was encouraged by news from Spain regarding the rising of the Spanish population against French occupation and the defeat of a French army by Spanish general Francisco Castanos at Bailen.
  • He was instrumental in persuading Emperor Francis of Austria to attempt to arouse popular resistance to Napoleon in Austria and Germany.
  • The war that began in 1809 pitted Austria alone on the continent against Napoleonic France.
  • The campaign saw the first major defeat of Napoleon at Aspern by the Archduke Charles, brother of the Emperor.
  • Nonetheless, the French recovered and inflicted a decisive defeat on the Austrians at Wagram, one of the largest battles of the Napoleonic Wars.
  • The unfortunate results of the campaign of 1809 compelled his resignation.
  • He was succeeded as Foreign Minister by Klemens von Metternich whom the Emperor had recalled from Paris.
  • Nonetheless, in 1813 he was commissioned to negotiate the convention which finally overthrew Napoleon.
  • The historian Robert A.
  • Kann called him "a man of outstanding gifts, perhaps the foremost diplomat in imperial Austrian history" (A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918, p.
  • 211). The last ten years of his life were spent in a strenuous and partly successful attempt to reorganize the disordered finances of his country.
  • As minister of finance (1815–1824), he founded Austria's central bank Oesterreichische Nationalbank in 1816. He died in Baden, Austria; his son, Franz Stadion, Count von Warthausen, was a prominent liberal statesman of the 1840s.

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