Adolf of Prollius

Adolf von Prollius , complete Adolf Viktor Joseph Vollrath von Prollius (born January 11, 1861 in Schwerin , † July 20, 1942 in Dresden ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Adolf von Prollius came from the Mecklenburg noble family Prollius . His father was the Mecklenburg landowner, administrative lawyer, state minister and envoy Max von Prollius , his mother Julie Caroline Margarethe, née. from Bülow .

He studied at the University of Göttingen and became a member of the Corps Bremensia in 1879 . After completing his studies, he entered the foreign service . From 1906 to 1910 he was German envoy to Thailand in Bangkok and from 1911 to 1920 German envoy to Venezuela in Caracas .

For the christening of his great-nephew in 1934 he donated the baptismal font of the Kölzow village church .

He remains unmarried.

Awards

• January 27, 1918: Appointment to the Imperial Real Secret Council , combined with the address Excellency
• Order of the Red Eagle II class with oak leaves
• Royal Crown Order II class
• Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John
• Commander's Cross of the Griffin Order
• Commander of the House Order of the White Falcon
• Oldenburg House and Merit Order of Duke Peter Friedrich Ludwig
• Commander's Cross 1st Class of the Order of Henry the Lion

See also

• List of German ambassadors in Thailand
• List of German ambassadors in Venezuela

literature

• Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbook of Diplomacy 1815–1963. Foreign heads of mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-11431-1 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dates and locations according to the entry in the Dresden death register, accessed via ancestry.com on June 25, 2018
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 849
3. ^ Awards according to the handbook for the German Empire. 1918, p. 71.