now made an important contribution to the drafting of what came to be known as the "Final Settlement" (" Schlussakte") which clarified the new German Confederation's inter-relationships. In 1820 von Blittersdorf was sent back to the "Bundestag" (as the "Federal Convention") at Frankfurt is sometimes identified in sources) as Baden's representative. By now he was clearly aligning himself with conservative, lining up to resist liberalising tendencies identified as emanating from the representatives from Württemberg and Bavaria. He was resolute in his opposition to Baden's 1818 constitution. He believed that the German confederation could best be secured of the individual states within it retained their individual sovereignty. A couple of years later, in September 1822, he was reporting to Chancellor Metternich on alarming trends in Baden itself. The people, for the most part, conducted themselves in a good and orderly manner. The danger came from the importation of liberals into the government hierarchy. He urged that his prince should ensure the effectiveness of his servants [in the government] through a technique combining "fear and hope" ("Nur durch Furcht und Hoffnung vermag sich der Regent seiner Diener zu versichern"). He favoured "the monarchist ideal" and "aristocratic principles" over the democratic sentiments that continued to circulate in the aftermath of the French revolution and the ensuing wars. When he visited Metternich in Vienna, the latter was characteristically non-committal. In a note to an assistant he wrote in the language of international diplomacy, "I will receive him with all my usual candour, but I will restrict myself to generalities" ("Je le recevrai avec toute la franchise de mon caractère, mais je me tiendrai avec lui dans les generalités."). Von Blittersdorf was back in Vienna in a diplomatic capacity in 1823. He continued to serve as an envoy to the "Bundestag" till 1835. Friedrich von Blittersdorf married at Frankfurt am Main in 1824. His bride was Maximiliane Euphrosine Kunigunde Brentano di Tremezzo, like him from a family of government administrators. At least four children would be born to the couple between 1825 and 1846. In 1835 he was appointed to the position of Foreign Minister of Grand Duchy of Baden. As a result of his energy and the force of his personality he quickly became the dominating figure in the government, although Ludwig Georg Winter, formally the head of the government till he died in 1838, seems to have kept von Blittersdorf in some sort