Werther studied law and passed his first legal examination in June 1830, however, in 1832 he decided on a diplomatic career and, after passing the diplomatic examination, was transferred to
Munich as legation secretary in 1834. He transferred to
The Hague in 1835 and, in 1836, was appointed legation councilor in London to
Heinrich von Bülow, the son-in-law of
Wilhelm von Humboldt. In the same year, King
Friedrich Wilhelm III appointed him
chamberlain. During the lengthy negotiations during the conference in London on the
Eastern Question, he often had to represent Bülow, who was often ill, especially in 1839. Following the beginning of the
Herzegovinian Uprising in 1875 and the
April Uprising in April 1876, the
Great Powers (
Austria-Hungary,
Britain,
France,
Germany,
Italy and
Russia) agreed on a project for political reforms in
Bosnia and in the
Ottoman territories with a majority-
Bulgarian population. The Ottoman Empire refused the proposed reforms, leading to the
Russo-Turkish War a few months later, at which point he retired again.
Later life On 3 May 1879, the German Emperor
William I awarded him the
Order of the Black Eagle, the highest
order of chivalry in the Kingdom of Prussia. His investiture took place a year later on January 24, 1878. Like his father before him, he became an honorary knight of the
Order of Saint John His written legacy, which dates from 1859 to 1870, is in the
Prussian Privy State Archives in Berlin. ==Personal life==