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Franz Ludwig Hatzfeldt

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HATZFELDT, FRANZ LUDWIG, PRINCE VON (17S6 1827), born at Vienna on Nov. 22, 1756 entered the Prussian army in 1795, and in 1806 was made governor of Berlin. Although he showed great moderation when Napoleon entered that city, and had forbidden the removal of arms from the arsenal and the destruction of bridges, the Emperor threatened to bring him before a court-martial and to have him shot as a spy. Hatzfeldt was saved by the entreaties of the princess von Hatzfeldt. After the final defeat of Napoleon, Hatzfeldt was one of the leaders of reaction in Prussia, and won the approbation of Metternich by the ejection of all liberal elements from the government in 1824. Ambassador at Vienna from 1822, he died there on Feb. 3, 1827.

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