Count Anton was a fourth son of the reigning Count
Christian Frederick of Stolberg-Wernigerode and the Countess Auguste Eleonore of
Stolberg-Stolberg, he was born at
Schloss Wernigerode. He entered into the
Prussian military service in 1802. He participated in the
Napoleonic Wars part, and was
Lieutenant General and commander of the 27th Landwehr Regiment. On 18 December 1815, his father had transferred the Lordship of Kreppelhof (Grodztwo) in
Silesia (today part of
Kamienna Góra, Poland) to him in
fideicommiss and
majorat. This meant that he was not allowed to sell it and it would be owned by him and his descendants in perpetuity and it would be indivisible and inherited according to
primogeniture. In 1831, he inherited the Lordship of Diersfordt near
Wesel from his brother-in-law Baron Christopher Alexander Charles Frederick von Wylich. In 1828, he became governor of the
Landkreis Landeshut in Silesien. In 1834, he was appointed chief minister in
Düsseldorf. In 1837, he was appointed chief minister in
Magdeburg as well as governor of the Prussian
Province of Saxony. He was made an honorary citizen of Magdeburg in 1841. In 1840, he was appointed as a confidant of the king
Frederick William IV of Prussia. He moved to Berlin and two years later he was appointed as Minister of State. After the
March Revolution of 1848, he was forced to resign from this position. He was then
adjutant general of the king and in 1851 Minister of the Royal House. Count Anton died in 1854 and was buried in the cemetery of his family in Wernigerode. The tomb was designed by
Friedrich August Stüler. == Marriage and issue ==