Alexis de Speyer

Alexis de Speyer (also: Alexei Nikolajewitsch Schpejer; Russian Алексей Николаевич Шпейер ; * April 20 ^July / May 2,  1854 ^greg .; † March 19, 1916 ) was a Russian diplomat .

Life

Alexis de Speyer was first class delegation secretary in Tokyo when he was sent to the court in Seoul after the failed Gapsin putsch of December 4, 1884 , where he received from Paul Georg von Möllendorff (* 1847, † 1901), an adviser to Gojong , a document in which Alexander III. (Russia) was asked to become a protecting power for Korea .

In the Treaty of Shimonoseki of April 7, 1895, the Protectorate of Korea obtained "full and comprehensive sovereignty and autonomy from the Chinese Empire ", as it was defeated in the First Sino-Japanese War . As a result, Alexander von Speyer was to replace Carl von Waeber , who had previously served as consul exequatur in Seoul , as envoy. Gojong intervened against this replacement, which is why Speyer did not come to Seoul until September 1897. After Myeongseong was murdered by Korean and Japanese assassins on October 8, 1895 , Gojong and his family stayed at the Russian diplomatic mission in Seoul from February 11, 1896 to February 1897. From here he tried to play off Japan and Russia, striving for hegemony over Korea. However, Russia had contractually agreed with Japan on Korea. In June 1897, Kiril A. Alexejew, a Russian customs officer, was appointed trade attaché in Seoul. In October 1897 Alexis de Speyer tried to get Kiril A. Alexejew to replace John McLeavy Brown as head of the Korean customs service. Since the finance minister refused, he was appointed by the foreign minister. John McLeavy Brown did not vacate his post, and when a squadron of the China Station under Vice-Admiral Alexander Buller sealed off the port of Incheon , Kiril A. Alexeev was given the post of Dmitri Dimitrievich Pokotilov (head of the Russo-Chinese Bank , from 1905 to 1908 envoy to China) resigned as government advisor.

From November 6, 1897 to June 8, 1898, he was accredited as envoy to China .

From June 8, 1898 to 1903, he was accredited in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil .

On October 2, 1885, diplomatic relations between the Russian and Argentine governments were established through the envoy extraordinary Alexander Ionin. From 1900 to 1904 Alexei Nikolajewitsch Schpejer was also accredited by the Argentine government.

From 1905 to 1906 he was ambassador to Tehran . He was a knight in the Russian Order of St. George .

Alexis de Speyer was married to Anna Erastowna Swoljanski (* 1858). He died on March 19, 1916 and was buried in the Kazan cemetery in Tsarskoye Selo .

predecessor	Office	successor
Michail Chitrovo Russian Михаил Александрович Хитрово	Russian chargé d'affaires in Tokyo 1896–1897	Roman Rosen Russian Роман Романович Розен
Carl von Waeber	Russian envoy to Korea 1897–1898	Nicolai Gavr. Matyunin
Alexander Pavlov Павлов Russian Александр Иванович	Russian envoy to China 1897–1898	Mikhail Nikolayevich de Giers
Mikhail Nikolayevich de Giers	Russian envoy to Brazil 1898–1904	Maurice Prozor
Alexander Ionin Russian Александер Семенович Ионин	Russian ambassador to Buenos Aires 1900–1904	Maurice Prozor
Pyotr Mikhailovich Vlasov Russian Пётр Михайлович Власов	Russian envoy in Tehran 1904–1906	Nikolaus Hartwig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rudolf Kranewitter: Dynamic of Religion: Shamanism, Confucianism, Buddhism and Christianity in the History of Korea. 2005, p. 340.
2. ^ Ian Ruxton: The Semi-Official Letters of British Envoy Sir Ernest Satow from Japan and China. (1895-1906).
3. ^ Peter Duus: The Abacus and the Sword: The Japanese Penetration of Korea, 1895-1910. University of California Press, 1998, ISBN 0-520-21361-0 , pp. 121-123, after Ian Ruxton: The Semi-Official Letters of British Envoy Sir Ernest Satow from Japan and China. (1895-1906)
4. ↑ Michael Schiltz: As Close as Lips and Teeth. (PDF; 891 kB) The Daiichi, Ginko and Megata Tanetaro in Korea, p. 25.
5. ↑ Erik Amburger : History of the organization of authorities in Russia from Peter the Great until 1917. P. 463 f.
6. ↑ Алексей Николаевич Шпейер 2.05.1854 - 19.03.1916 (Russian, accessed December 28, 2014)