Khardenberg (Nag.denberg) Karl avgust
(31.5.1750, Essen- kind, -26.11.1822, genoa), prince, prussian State
worker. In 1791-98 it governed as the prussian minister
markgraf-stvami Ansbakh and Bayreyt. From 1804 to the
beginning. 1806 and 1807 min. the foreign matters. In
1810-22 State chancellor. Continuing reforms G.F.K. The matte, which headed into 1807-08
prussian government, government g. into 1811 abolished shops,
introduced the freedom of industr. activity, permitted peasants the
ransom of feudal, duties; in 1812 the civil equality of rights
of the Jews (see Matte- Hardenberg reform)
decreed. After Viennese congress
1814-15, a participant in which was g., and the creation of the Holy
Alliance rukovodimoye g. government carried out the policy of
collaboration with the conservative circles of prussian yunkerstva and
internat. monarkhich. by reaction.
It is cast: Denkwiirdigkeiten des Staatskanzlers Fiirsten von
Hardenberg, Hrsg. L von Ranke, Bd 1-5, Lpz., 1877.
