Max von Hatzfeldt

Count Maximilian Friedrich Karl Franz von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg (7 June 1813 – 19 January 1859) was a Prussian aristocrat and diplomat.

He was the second son and youngest child of the Prussian general, Prince Franz Ludwig von Hatzfeldt-Trachenberg[1] and Countess Friederike Karoline von der Schulenburg-Kehnert (1779–1832), a daughter of the Prussian minister to the General Directorate Count Friedrich Wilhelm von der Schulenburg-Kehnert.

From his sister's marriage to their distant cousin, Count Edmund von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg, he was uncle to Paul von Hatzfeldt, who was Ambassador to London and Constantinople, Foreign Secretary, and Head of the Foreign Office.

[3] Von Hatzfeldt was secretary to the Prussian legation at Paris and, afterwards, from 1849 to 1859 Minister accredited to the Emperor Napoleon III.

He was also a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour and a Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta.