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Ludvig Douglas (1913).

Ludvig Vilhelm August Douglas, Count of Mühlhausen, Gondelsheim, Skenninge and Stjernorp, Lord of Langenstein and Stjernorp castles (24 November 1849 - 20 July 1916), was a conservative Swedish politician and official. He was a direct patrilineal descendant of Field Marshal Robert Douglas.

Ludvig Douglas was born at Zürich, Switzerland. His parents were Count Carl Israel Douglas (1824-1898), first count of the Douglas family in the nobility of Baden (since 1848) as Count of Mühlhausen, and his wife Countess Louise von Gondelsheim and Langenstein (1825-1900), herself a daughter of the morganatic marriage of Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden and Katharina Werner. Through his mother, he was a second cousin of Victoria of Baden, wife of King Gustaf V of Sweden.

He received the fideicommiss of Muhlhausen and the castle of Langenstein as his share of the family inheritance and reclaimed in c1875 his ancestral castle of Stjernorp in Sweden, which had been lost to his family after a fire in 1789. He ultimately succeeded his childless elder brother as head of the comital House of Douglas.

Douglas was a protectionist and solidly oriented towards Germany. From 1895 to 1899, he served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden.[1] He resigned because he refused to accept that Norway (then in union with Sweden) would have their flag without the mark of the union, i.e. he opposed the so-called pure flag. [2][3]

He also held the position of Riksmarskalk (Marshal of the Realm) (1911-1916), Landshövding (governor) of Uppsala County (1893-1895),[4] and Landshövding (governor) of Östergötland County (1901-1912).[5] Douglas worked for the Norrlander farmers' party against the forest products companies, they demanded protective legislation in field of wood market.

Count Ludvig died at Lysekil, and is buried at the Douglas family graveyard in Vreta monastic church, Sweden.

His wife was Countess Anna Louise Ehrensvärd, daughter of Count Albert Ehrensvärd the Elder, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden (1885-1889), and sister of Count Albert Ehrensvärd the Younger, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Sweden (1911-1914).

The Swedish branch of the Counts Douglas, to which Ludvig belonged, was the main surviving lineage of the family until Ludvig's sons and grandsons created several new branches (which spread over both Sweden and Germany. Lines descended from Ludvig Douglas include:

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References

  1. ^ "Article 13 -- No Title" (PDF). The New York Times. 1895-06-18. p. 5. Retrieved 2010-02-20. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  2. ^ "Norwegian Consular Flag Adopted" (PDF). The New York Times. 1899-07-26. p. 7. Retrieved 2010-02-20. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  3. ^ "Norwegian Flag Law Stands" (PDF). The New York Times. 1899-10-14. p. 7. Retrieved 2010-02-20. {{cite news}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  4. ^ worldstatesmen.org, Counties of Sweden: Uppsala, retrieved 2010-02-20
  5. ^ worldstatesmen.org, Counties of Sweden: Ostergotland, retrieved 2010-02-20
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Sveriges statskalender (in Swedish), 1915, pp. 66, 670, 776, 885, retrieved 2018-01-06 – via runeberg.org
  7. ^ "Ludvig W. A. Douglas" (in Swedish) – via riksarkivet.se.
  8. ^ "Ritter-Orden: Leopold-orden", Hof- und Staatshandbuch der Österreichisch-Ungarischen Monarchie (in German), 1900, p. 69, retrieved 2 November 2019
  9. ^ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1912) [1st pub.:1801]. Statshaandbog for Kongeriget Danmark for Aaret 1912 [State Manual of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1912] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. pp. 11–12. Retrieved 16 September 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.
  10. ^ "Real y distinguida orden de Carlos III". Guía Oficial de España (in Spanish). 1900. p. 177. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
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