Adolf Boyé

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Adolf Boyé (born June 8, 1869 in Alsenz , † January 23, 1934 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) was a German diplomat and economist.

Life

Boyé was a son of Dr. med. Albert Boyé and his Elise geb. Spies. He attended the Latin school in Grünstadt and the humanistic high school in Neustadt a. d. Haardt , where he graduated from high school in 1888. From 1888 to 1892 he studied law at the universities of Würzburg , Berlin , Kiel and Erlangen . In 1889 he became a member of the Corps Rhenania Würzburg .

After the legal traineeship, he joined the Bavarian judicial service on September 1, 1892 and became an assessor in December 1895. In August 1897 he switched to the consular career of the Foreign Office and was Legation Secretary in Berlin from 1897 to 1900, German Vice Consul in Yokohama from 1900 to 1902 , and Vice Consul and Deputy Consul General in Shanghai from 1902 to 1904 . After temporarily resigning from the Foreign Office, he became a permanent unskilled worker there, and on October 12, 1905, he was appointed Legation Councilor. In May 1907 he became a Real Councilor of Legation and Lecturing Council.

In 1909 Boyé resigned from the Reichsdienst and acted from 1910 to 1915 as director of the Berlin trading company and the colonial railway company . During the First World War, he returned to the Foreign Office in 1916 and was employed as an embassy counselor and trade expert in Vienna, in 1919 temporarily also as plenipotentiary of the Reich Ministry of Food in Vienna (until August 9) and from November 1919 as undersecretary for economic affairs with the title of real Secret Legation Council. On May 20, 1920 Boyé was appointed Secretary of State and head of the trade policy department of the Foreign Office, on July 15, 1921 as envoy in Beijing . On March 8, 1928 he was put into temporary retirement, and on July 1, 1931 into final retirement.

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 , p. 243f.
  • Ludwig Munzinger (ed.): History of the Corps Rhenania zu Würzburg 1842–1935 . Association of former Würzburger Rhenanen, Dresden-Loschwitz 1940, p. 473.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 209 , 391
personal data
SURNAME Boyé, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and economist
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Alsenz
DATE OF DEATH January 23, 1934
Place of death Ludwigshafen am Rhein