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The Congress of Wilhelmsbad (also known as the Convent of Wilhelmsbad) was a freemasonic congress opened on 16 July 1782 at Wilhemsbad near Hanau, Hesse-Cassel. The pro-masonic scholar Albert Mackey in the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry describes it as "the most important Masonic Congress of the eighteenth century". Lasting thirty sessions, it was convoked by Ferdinand, Prince of Brunswick-Lüneburg, Grand Master of the Order of Strict Observance and a member of the Order of the Illuminati.
Thirty-six delegates participated in total, including freemasons from Germany, the Netherlands, Russia, Italy, France and Austria. The Grand Lodge of Germany and the Grand Lodge of Sweden did not participate however, while the Grand Lodge of the Three Globes at Berlin simply sent a letter of concord.
Delegates
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| Adolph Freiherr Knigge | 1752–1796 | Officially representing the Strict Observance for several German states. Member of the Order of the Illuminati as Philo. It was the lobbying of Knigge to the Prince of Brunswick which brought about the congress in the first place. Along with Adam Weishaupt he was one of the main leaders of the Illuminati.
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| Franz Dietrich von Ditfurth | 1738–1813 | Officially representing the Order of the Illuminati at the congress. His name as a member was Minos. Ditfurth was the Grand Master of the Strict Observance Lodge at Wetzlar. He was the Assessor of the city of Wetzlar and a prominent legal jurist. He was the Illuminati governer for Upper Saxony and on Weishaupt's Areopagite council.
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| Count Leopold von Kolowrat-Krakowsky | 1727–1809 | Officially representing the freemasons of Vienna. Member of the Order of the Illuminati as Numenius. Prominent politician in Austria. His fellow Illuminists did not regard him as entirely useful, Adam Weishaupt criticised Kolowrat's lack of atheism a letter to Xavier von Zwack, in which he said "do put Brother Numenius in correspondence with me, I must try to cure him of his Theosophical ideas, and properly prepare him for our views."
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