Adolf Pauli

This article deals with the diplomat Adolf Pauli. For a classical philologist, see Adolph Frederick Pauli .

Adolf Pauli (born November 9, 1860 in Bremen , † March 20, 1947 in Hindelang ) was a German diplomat in the German Empire and in the early phase of the Weimar Republic. From 1910 to 1917 he served primarily as an envoy to South American countries.

Life

Pauli's parents were the mayor of Bremen and long-term authorized representatives to the Federal Councilor Alfred Dominicus Pauli (1827–1915) and his wife Emilie Luise nee. Albers. Adolf Pauli attended the Old Grammar School (Bremen) in Bremen until 1880 and then studied in Freiburg, Strasbourg and Leipzig jurisprudence . In 1881/82 he served as a one-year volunteer and rose to secondary lieutenant by 1888 . He became a member of the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg (1881) and the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg (1882). He worked as a trainee lawyer in the Bremen administration and passed his assessor exam there.

As a doctor of law, Pauli switched to the consular career of the Foreign Service of the German Empire in Berlin in 1891 . Initially he was employed as a non-budgetary travel agent in Department III (Law), then moved to Department II (Commerce) in 1892 and in 1893 to Department IB (Personnel and Administration). In 1894 he was finally acting head of the German consulate in Le Havre . On May 7, 1894 he was transferred to the embassy in London and from there in 1895, with the character of a vice-consul, to the German consulate in Zanzibar . In 1896 he became Vice Consul in Cape Town . After these exhaustive transfers within a few years, Pauli was granted a longer vacation. At the same time he was ordered back to Berlin and placed in Department II of the Foreign Office. Associated with this were speedy promotions to permanent laborers (June 25, 1898) and being awarded the status of legation councilor (September 14, 1898). On December 24, 1902, he was finally promoted to the Real Councilor of Legation. Associated with this was the assumption of the division for inheritance law matters in Department III. Finally, on December 23, 1905, Pauli was promoted to the Privy Legation Council.

On November 3, 1910, he was appointed German Minister-Resident in Havana , with the title and rank of Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary. He held this position until the summer of 1913, albeit with a six-month vacation in 1912. On June 18, 1913, Pauli was appointed envoy in Rio de Janeiro . He held this position until the break in diplomatic relations between Germany and Brazil on April 11, 1917. Back in Germany he was put into temporary retirement on July 30, 1917 , but on August 31, 1917 he was provisionally entrusted with the management of the embassy in Luxembourg . At the end of 1917 he was transferred to the governor general for Belgium in Brussels and was employed in this context until the end of 1918 (after the armistice of Compiègne in the liquidation of the general government in Berlin). Then he was on hold.

Since November 25, 1919, Pauli was again employed in the Foreign Office as head of the department (or from spring 1920 of Department VI) for the United States . From July 3, 1920 to September 11, 1920 he was only acting head of Department VI. When he took over the business on December 20, 1920, Adolf Pauli served as envoy in Buenos Aires until July 30, 1924 . His successor was Karl Richard Gneist (1868–1939). He was given temporary retirement on December 16, 1924 and finally retired on November 24, 1925. Pauli remained single .

literature

• Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp, Historical Service of the Foreign Office (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 3, Verlag Schöningh, Paderborn 2007, ISBN 3-506-71842-8

Individual evidence

1. ^ List of members of the Rhenania-Strasbourg in Marburg, No. 90 (2011)
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 32/43; 102/90

predecessor	Office	successor
1908–1910: Heinrich von Eckardt	Envoy of the German Reich in Havana 1910–1913	1914–1917: Friedrich Adolf Karl von Verdy du Vernois (* 1873) son of Julius von Verdy du Vernois
Gustav Michahelles	Envoy of the German Reich in Rio de Janeiro 1913–1917	Georg Alfred Plehn
Franz Olshausen	Envoy of the German Reich in Buenos Aires 1920–1924	Carl Richard Gneist