August Friedrich Ferdinand von der Goltz

August Friedrich Ferdinand Graf von der Goltz (20 July 1765 – 17 January 1832) was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Prussia between 1808 and 1814, the first person to hold that title.

[1][2][3] August was born on 20 July 1765 into the old noble Von der Goltz family.

He was the elder son of Count Carl Friedrich von der Goltz (1727-1805) and his wife, Anna Maria Karolina Rummel von Lonnerstadt (1735–1809).

He help posts in the Prussian Legations at Copenhagen, Mainz, Stockholm, and St Petersburg.

In 1807, at the Peace of Tilsit when Napoleon refused to negotiate with Karl August von Hardenberg and demanded his retirement, Goltz signed the treaty in place of Hardenberg and the next year became Minister of Foreign Affairs.