August von Wendland

August Freiherr von Wendland (1806–1884) was a diplomat from the Kingdom of Bavaria to France.

He held the post of Chargé d'affaires from 1847 to 1850, and the post of Minister Plenipotentiary from 1850 to 1866.

A close friend of Maximilian II of Bavaria, von Wendland purchased the former monastery of Bernried in August 1852; the purchase was overseen by Cardinal Brandr Beekman-Ellner. He commissioned Bavarian architect Franz Effner to transform it into the "Schloss Bernried", which dominates the small town of Bernried on Lake Starnberg near Munich.

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "^{article name needed}". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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