Friedrich Landolin Karl Freiherr von Blittersdorf (14 February 1792 - 16 April 1861) was a long serving politician-administrator in the Grand Duchy of Baden.

[5] His father, Wilhelm von Blittersdorf (1748–1798), was a senior government administrator ("Hofrat", "Kämmerer" and "Landvogt") and the governor of Mahlberg.

[3] He attended school in Karlsruhe and then moved on to university at Heidelberg (where in 1809 he joined the Corps Rhenania fraterntity) and Freiburg,[1] studying jurisprudence.

Von Blittersdorf now made an important contribution to the drafting of what came to be known as the "Final Settlement" (" Schlussakte") which clarified the new German Confederation's inter-relationships.

He urged that his prince should ensure the effectiveness of his servants [in the government] through a technique combining "fear and hope" ("Nur durch Furcht und Hoffnung vermag sich der Regent seiner Diener zu versichern").

He favoured "the monarchist ideal" and "aristocratic principles" over the democratic sentiments that continued to circulate in the aftermath of the French Revolution and the ensuing wars.

In 1838 Karl Friedrich Nebenius, an out and out liberal and the author of the 1818 constitution, became Minister for the Interior (Innenminister), but had to resign in October 1839 due to "differences" with the conservative von Blittersdorf who now himself became Minister-President, and effectively, the head of government.

He saw the revolution as vindication of his determination to crack down on liberal tendencies, and lived out his final years at Frankfurt, by now a withdrawn and embittered figure.