Agamemnon Schliemann

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Agamemnon Schliemann

Agamemnon Schliemann ( Greek Αγαμέμνον Σλήμαν , born March 16, 1878 , † 1954 in Paris ) was a Greek politician and diplomat .

Life

Agamemnon Schliemann was a son of Heinrich Schliemann from his second marriage to Sophia Engastroménou . When he was baptized in Athens in May 1878 , there was almost a scandal because Heinrich Schliemann held a thermometer in the already consecrated water, in which the child had to be immersed three times according to the Orthodox rite. Agamemnon Schliemann lost his father at the age of twelve. He studied and obtained his doctorate in Paris. On June 21, 1902, he arrived on board the La Savoie from Le Havre , accompanied by the only sixteen-year-old Nadine de Bornemann in New York , in order to marry her there. Nadine de Bornemann had Danish and British ancestors, but grew up in Paris.

Two years before this entry, Agamemnon Schliemann had acquired American citizenship during a visit to the USA, which was possible because his father had also had it. Family members of the young people tried from Paris to prevent the couple from getting married, which would have been problematic under French law. When the ship was still at the quarantine quay, the couple were initially held on board. However, after it turned out that Agamemnon Schliemann was American, he was allowed to leave the ship with his girlfriend, have the luggage transported to the Waldorf-Astoria and go to the Coudert Brothers office in the Empire Building at 71 Broadway. There the couple got married.

At this time Agamemnon Schliemann probably had another reason to turn his back on Paris, where he lived at 32 rue de Courcelles: After an accident on March 16, 1902, in which the poet and journalist Narcisse Quellien lost his life Agamemnon Schliemann's car was confiscated. He didn't ask for it back. Schliemann had been behind the wheel and drove at full speed.

In early 1914, Schliemann, who represented Larisa in the Greek Chamber of Deputies , succeeded Lambros A. Koromilas, who was moving to Rome , as ambassador in Washington, DC On the occasion of this appointment, the New York Times also reported on his possessions in Thessaly , a large part of his wealth.

After his divorce from Nadine, Agamemnon Schliemann got into financial difficulties. His mother, Sophia Schliemann , therefore sold the Iliou Melathron to the Greek state in 1926 . Nadine Schliemann later married the politician and Prime Minister Konstantinos Tsaldaris .

In 1937 Agamemnon Schliemann and his older sister Andromache Ernst Meyer gave the right to publish Schliemann's letters as the only one.

Together with Nikolaos Plastiras , Sophoklis Venizelos , Periklis Argyropoulos and Komninos Pyromaglou , Schliemann founded the fighting committee against Ioannis Metaxas ' coup d'état of August 4th in January 1939 . This was published by a newspaper Elefheria ( freedom ). In May 1940 the committee had to move to the south of France and disbanded.

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Agamemnon Schliemann died in Paris and was buried there because he did not want to return to Greece even dead. He left no children.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Danae Coulmas : Schliemann and Sophia. A Lovestory. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-492-23699-5 , p. 175.
  2. ^ Lilian Whiting: The Golden Road. Little, Brown, and company, 1918, p. 165.
  3. ↑ Eloped from France, made to marry here. In: New York Times. June 22, 1902.
  4. ↑ Le Petit Parisien
  5. ↑ Automobile topics , Volume 4
  6. ^ The Horseless age. The automobile trade magazine. Volume 9, p. 738.
  7. ↑ Die Woche , Vol. 6, 1904, p. VII
  8. ^ The Cornell Era , Volume 34, p. 332.
  9. ↑ Greeces price conflicting reports effect of the blockade. In: The Marlborough Express December 3, 1915.
  10. ^ To be, new greek minister. In: New York Times. January 8, 1914.
  11. ↑ Danae Coulmas: Schliemann and Sophia. A Lovestory. Piper, Munich / Zurich 2002, ISBN 3-492-23699-5 , p. 287.
  12. ^ HW Wilson Company: Current Biography Yearbook. Volume 7, 1947, p. 605.
  13. ^ Heinrich Schliemann, William M. Calder III, David A. Traill: Myth, scandal, and history: the Heinrich Schliemann controversy and a first edition of the Mycenaean diary. Wayne State University Press, 1986, p. 21; Stefanie Samida: Heinrich Schliemann. UTB 2012, pp. 126–127.
  14. ^ Heinz A. Richter : Greece between revolution and counterrevolution (1936-1946). Europäische Verlagsanstalt, Frankfurt 1973, p. 66 note 52; 164.
  15. ^ Georgios Korres: The mausoleum of Heinrich Schliemann in the central cemetery of Athens. In: Boreas 4, 1982, p. 148.
personal data
SURNAME Schliemann, Agamemnon
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Σλήμαν, Αγαμέμνον (Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greek politician and diplomat, son of Heinrich Schliemann
DATE OF BIRTH March 16, 1878
DATE OF DEATH 1954
Place of death Paris