Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Andreas Peter Bernstorff was a Danish statesman and politician. He was a Danish minister, father of Christian Gnther von Bernstorff, and a guardian of civil and political liberty.

A. P. Bernstorff was born in Hanover as a nephew of the statesman Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff whose position probably introduced him to Danish politics. After a grand European tour he 1755 joined the Danish state service, first as a courtier and then from 1760 as a state official both in foreign political and financial matters. His career was slow but steady. During the 1760s he placed himself as an able but not outstanding official closely connected to his uncle. In the Struensee years 177071 he was dismissed but soon he was recalled by the new regime of Ove HeghGuldberg.

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