Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár
| Ladislaus Freiherr Hengelmüller von Hengervár | |
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| Austro-Hungarian Minister to Serbia | |
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In office 21 February 1887 – 30 July 1889 |
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| Preceded by | Rudolf Graf von Khevenhüller-Metsch |
| Succeeded by | Gustav Freiherr von Thömmel |
| Austro-Hungarian Minister to Brazil | |
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In office 4 March 1891 – 7 May 1893 |
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| Preceded by | Rudolf Graf von Welsersheimb |
| Succeeded by | Ernst Ritter Schmit von Tavera |
| Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office 11 October 1894 – 7 January 1913 |
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| Preceded by | Ernst Ritter Schmit von Tavera |
| Succeeded by | Konstantin Dumba |
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2 May 1845 Pest, Austria-Hungary (now Hungary) |
| Died | 22 April 1917 (aged 71) Abbazia, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) |
| Spouse(s) | Marie, née Gräfin Dunin-Borkowska (1859–?) |
Ladislaus (from 1906, Freiherr) Hengelmüller von Hengervár (Hungarian: hengervári báró Hengelmüller László) (2 May 1845 – 22 April 1917), was an Austro-Hungarian diplomat of Hungarian origin who was a long-term Ambassador at Washington D.C., throughout many Presidential administrations including those of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft.
Born in Pest (now Budapest) on 2 May 1845 into a family belonging to the Germany community in Hungary. His father Michael Hengelmüller was an Austrian court official. On 3 April 1893, he married Marie née Countess Dunin-Borkowska (1859–?), a widow and daughter of Count Alfred Dunin-Borkowski (1834–1895), in Dresden.
After having served in the Chancellery of the Royal Hungarian Court and the Ministry of Finance, Hengelmüller began his diplomatic career. In 1868, he was appointed as Chancellor of the General consulate for China and Japan, and then served briefly in the Foreign Ministry in Vienna. Following a stint at the Consulate in Budapest, he was stationed in Washington D.C. and Berlin from 1870 to 1874. In 1875, he was responsible for the preparations of a commercial treaty with Germany and was thereafter dispatched to Paris in 1876 and to London in 1879. It was in this latter posting, where he remained for almost a decade, where he distinguished himself and acquired a reputation for shrewdness. One of his achievements during this time was to obtain a public apology by Britain's Prime Minister William Gladstone, who was well known for his stubbornness.
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