Alexander Vladimirovich Westmann

Alexander Wladimirowitsch von Westmann ( Russian Александр Владимирович Вестман ; born August 1, 1848 , † April 17, 1923 in Paris ) was a Russian diplomat .

Westmann, a native of Finland, was the son of the Russian diplomat and since 1866 Deputy Foreign Minister Vladimir Ilyich Westmann (1812-1875). After attending the Alexander Lyceum , he joined the diplomatic service of the Russian Empire in 1869 . Initially employed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Saint Petersburg , he became embassy secretary at the Russian embassy in Vienna in 1872 , with further stations in Munich (from 1876) and Constantinople (from 1885).

Under Tsar Alexander III. In 1891 he succeeded Count Cassini in office as Russian Minister-Resident at the Free Hanseatic Cities in Hamburg . From 1900 to 1902 he was envoy to the Swiss Confederation in Bern and from 1902 to 1912 at the royal Bavarian court in Munich . In 1912, von Westmann retired. As a result of the October Revolution in Russia, he went into exile in France in 1917 . He died in Paris in 1923 and was buried in the Batignolles cemetery.

Web links

• Documents by and about Westmann, Alexander von in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Westmann, Vladimirovič in the Erik Amburger database of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Research , Regensburg
2. ↑ Erik Amburger : The permanent diplomatic representatives abroad. History of the organization of authorities in Russia from Peter the Great to 1917. EJ Brill, Leiden 1966

predecessor	Office	successor
Arthur Cassini	Russian envoy to the Hanseatic cities 1891–1900	Sergej Vasilyevich Arseniev
Alexander Semenovich Ionin	Russian envoy to Switzerland 1900–1902
Mikhail Nikolayevich de Giers	Russian envoy to Bavaria 1902–1912	Nikolai Ilyich Bulazel