Karl Eugen von Hügel

Baron Karl Eugen von Hügel (24 May 1805 – 29 May 1870) was a German diplomat and Foreign Minister of the Kingdom of Württemberg.

[6] After graduating, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Württemberg as an attaché, which was then run by Count Joseph von Beroldingen.

Beginning in 1832, Hügel was legation secretary to the Württemberg Envoy in Paris, Count Mülinen, remaining there until 1840, ultimately with the title of chargé d'affaires.

[7] From 4 April to 20 July 1843, Crown Prince Charles, the heir to the throne of Württemberg, visited London to learn the state of industrialization in England, and from 6 April to 14 June 1845, Hügel accompanied the Charles to the throne on his "great cavalier tour" to Vienna, Ofen, Prague, Dresden, Berlin and Altenburg.

[8] In 1849, he withdrew from public life, staying at his wife's Russian estates in the Ryazan department, southeast of Moscow, away from the turbulent political and military events in Germany, which culminated in the suppression of the Baden Revolution in the summer of 1849.

Hügel was so outraged at Austrian politics by Foreign Minister Count von Buol that from then on he was considered "persona non grata" in the Vienna State Chancellery on Ballhausplatz.

The meeting took advantage of Emperor Napoleon III, unintentionally by Stuttgart, ultimately in the Second Italian War of Independence to be able to take action against Austria without fearing that Russia would intervene.

In August 1859, Hügel visited the ministerial colleagues Friedrich Ferdinand von Beust in Dresden and Baron Karl Ludwig von der Pfordten in Munich to discuss Federal reforms and a Federal wartime Constitution, which was supposed to give the minor states of the German Confederation an appropriate voice.

In September 1861, Beust and Hügel made a trip to Switzerland to learn about the local constitution and subsequently wrote a memorandum on the German question.