Career
From 1847 to 1853 he was King"s Commissioner of the province of Gelderland. He was at the time befriended with Thorbecke. However, when Thorbecke had become the first Dutch Prime Minister, he considered Schimmelpenninck as a conservative unfit to remain King"s Commissioner and fired him towards the end of his first cabinet (much against the king"s wishes).
Their friendship ended with that.
Afterwards Schimmelpenninck held high functions at the court and returned to the House of Representatives, of which in 1858 he was President. The King of Württemberg awarded him the Grand Crossof the Friedrich Order.