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Two years later, Brunell’s career as a #emdiplomat began with a position as an #embassy secretary in #Berlin where he stayed until 1714. In 1716 he was sent to #Kassel in the same capacity to assist the Swedish resident in the lantgraviate Hesse-Kassel, Axel Sparre. However, he did not arrive in Kassel before June 1717. After Sparre was recalled in 1719, Brunell was promoted to Swedish resident in Hesse-Kassel and ennobled with the name #Örncrona. Three years later, he was recalled. Back in #Stockholm, Örncrona was appointed royal councillor. Only a few years later, in 1728, his diplomatic career continued when he was appointed Swedish #ambassador to #Denmark, where he died in 1734. (2/5)

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Brunell’s stationing in Hesse-Kassel coincided with the last years of the #GreatNorthernWar. After the Swedish territories in the north of the #HRE had been occupied by #Sweden’s enemies in 1715, a huge number of Swedish soldiers and sailors who either lost contact with their units or were escaped prisoners of war, came to Hessen-Kassel to seek help from the Swedish #resident there and the landgrave, the father-in-law to the Swedish king’s sister, to find a way back to #Sweden or at least Swedish territory. During a five years’ time, the Swedish residents in Hesse-Kassel and especially Brunell were occupied with organising how these people should be handled. Brunell negotiated with the landgrave about passports, money, and provisions. (3/5)

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After the Charles XII’s death in 1719, as many as 159 Swedish soldiers and sailors were transferred to Hesse-Kassel. They were quartered and supplied at the expenses of the landgrave, but resident Brunell had to communicate between the two parts. Moreover, he had to figure out a plan how to bring these soldiers and sailors back to #Sweden as soon as possible. And, last but not least, he had to negotiate with the landgrave on support for his daughter-in-law, the new queen of Sweden.

This example sheds light not only on the very poorly researched connection between military issues and #emdiplomacy as well as how #emdiplomats sometimes were forced to solve exceptional situations. (4/5)

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If you want to read about Brunell, the 159 Swedish soldiers and sailors, see the article by our co-editor (in German):

Dorothée Goetze, Von Seeleuten, Schwiegervätern und anderen Schwierigkeiten: Quellenfunde zum Schicksal schwedischer Matrosen und Soldaten im Großen Nordischen Krieg, In: Stadt - Land - Militär: Militärorganisation - Festungen - Einquartierung - Wahrnehmung. Schweden und seine deutschen Provinzen im 17. Jahrhundert und 18. Jahrhundert, ed. by Dorothée Goetze and Nils Jörn, Hamburg 2022, 233-258 (5/5)