Friedrich Albrecht von der Schulenburg

[1] His father was the youngest son of Adolph Friedrich von der Schulenburg, a Prussian Lieutenant General and confidant of King Frederick William I who fell in the Battle of Mollwitz during the First Silesian War.

His grandfather received the hereditary nobility title of Imperial Count in 1728 from Emperor Charles VI.

His task as representative for Saxony at the Congress of Vienna, and its successor conferences, was made considerably more difficult because he was not accredited in an official capacity in the negotiations about the fate of Saxony after the Battle of Leipzig until the agreements at the Congress of Vienna were reached, but only participated as a private citizen could.

Schulenburg's property, the Klosterrode estate (which his grandfather Adolf Friedrich had acquired in 1739), also came to Prussia.

In the same year, he was entrusted with courting the hand of Archduchess Marie Caroline of Austria for the then prince, later King Frederick Augustus II.