Background
He was the son of Georg von Steinberg and Eva von Korff.
He was the son of Georg von Steinberg and Eva von Korff.
He did, however, participate in court life and was the first Hanoverian minister to be active in the British court. His successor, Philipp Adolph von Münchhausen, would follow in his footsteps. Steinberg resigned his post in 1748 and returned to Hanover.
He was politically conservative and rarely expressed his opinion to King George, acting instead as primarily a secretary.