MAXIMILIAN  , Freiherr von

Gagern (1810-1889), the youngest son, was born at Weilburg on the 26th of March 181o . Up to 1848 he was a government official in Nassau; in that year he became a member of the German national parliament and under-secretary of state for foreign affairs . Throughout the revolutionary years he supported his brother's policy, became a member of the Erfurt parliament, and, after the collapse of the national movement, returned to the service of the duchy of Nassau . In 1855 he turned Roman Catholic and entered the Austrian service as court and ministerial councillor in the department of foreign affairs . In 1871 he retired, and in 1881 was nominated a life member of the Upper Chamber (Herrenhaus) . He died at Vienna on the 17th of October 1889 . See Allgemeine deutsche Biographic, Band viii. p . 301, &c . (1878) and Band xlix. p . 654 (1904) .