EULENBURG, FRIEDRICH, GRAF ZU Prussian statesman, was born at Konigsberg on June 29, 1815. He entered the diplomatic service in 1852, and, after holding various European appointments, was sent on a mission to the Far East, where he concluded commercial treaties with Japan (Jan. 24, 1861) and with China (Sept. 2, 1861). On his return he became minister of the interior, and supported Bismarck in his insistence on the necessity of expenditure on armaments in Prussia. After 1866 he organized relations with the newly-acquired provinces of Prussia, Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Frankfurt, Schleswig-Holstein duchies and Lauenburg. He resigned in 1878 when Bismarck refused to sanction his proposals for town and parish adminis tration. Count Eulenburg died on June 2, 1881, at Berlin Schoneberg.
See his Ostasien 186o bis 1862 in Brief en, edit. Count Philipp zu Hertef eld-Eulenburg (1900) , and his Zehn Jahre innere Politik 1862 bis 1872 (1872).