Arthur von Mohrenheim

Arthur Baron von Mohrenheim

Arthur Pawlowitsch Baron von Mohrenheim ( Russian Артур Павлович Моренгейм ; * May 27 / June 8, 1824 in Moscow ; † 1906 in Pau , France ) was a Russian diplomat and is considered the architect of the Franco-Russian " Zweiverband " from 1894.

Life

Mohrenheim came from a noble family from the Grodno Governorate in Belarus . His grandfather Josef Mohrenheim (1759–1797) came to the Russian Empire from Austria as a personal physician in 1783. He attended Moscow University , graduated in law, and entered the diplomatic service of the Russian Empire in 1845 .

From 1851 to 1856 Mohrenheim worked at the Russian embassy in Vienna , and from 1858 to 1867 in an advisory capacity at the embassy in Berlin . In 1867 he was appointed Russian envoy to the Danish court in Copenhagen , after he had previously been involved in the negotiations for the marriage (1866) of the Danish princess Dagmar with the Russian tsarevich , later tsar Alexander III. , had played an important role.

In 1882 Mohrenheim became ambassador to London , but did not feel at home there, which is why he moved to Paris as ambassador two years later (1884) , where he stayed until 1898. On 23 July 1886, the reported Recent communications over a political meeting with Otto von Bismarck in the spa town of Bad Kissingen : "Besides, there is also the Russian ambassador in Paris, Baron Mohrenheim, the cure and dealing with the Chancellor." As Russian ambassador to Years later in Paris he was largely responsible for the alliance between France and Russia ("Zweiverband" from 1894).

literature

• Jules Hansen: Ambassade à Paris du Bn de Mohrenheim 1884-1898 . Verlag E. Flammarion, Paris 1907. - German translation by Christoph Luerot: Diplomatic revelations from the ambassadorial days of Baron von Mohrenheim 1884–1898 . Stalling, Leipzig / Oldenburg / Berlin 1907.
• Mohrenheim, Arthur Pawlowitsch, Baron von . In: Brockhaus Konversations-Lexikon 1894-1896, supplement volume 1897, p. 778.
• Arthur von Mohrenheim . In: Theodor Westrin (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 18 : Mekaniker – Mycale . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1913, Sp. 812 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).

predecessor	Office	successor
	Russian envoy to Denmark 1867 to 1882	Karl Wilhelm von Toll
	Russian Ambassador to the United Kingdom 1882 to 1884	Georg Friedrich Karl von Staal
Nikolai Alexejewitsch Orlov	Russian ambassador to France 1884 to 1897	Lev Pavlovich Urusov