Alfred Pelldram

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Alfred Leopold Robert Pelldram, from: The Sydney Mail, October 6, 1894, p. 699

Alfred Leopold Robert Moritz Pelldram (* 1847 in Sagan in Silesia ; † February 22, 1906 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat who served as German Consul General for Australia , Minister- Resident for Haiti and Venezuela , but also in Egypt , China , was diplomatically active in the Caucasus and Belgium .

Early life

Born in Sagan (today: heuteagań ) in the then Prussian province of Silesia in 1847 , Alfred Pelldram passed his school leaving examination in 1865 and studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität in Berlin from 1866 to 1869 . In 1869 the right-wing candidate Alfred Pelldram was appointed auscultator . In 1867, while studying in Berlin, Pelldram joined the 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment , a reserve cavalry regiment of the Prussian Army in Berlin.

Pelldram was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve in 1869 and served with his regiment as part of the infantry division of the Second Guard in the Second Army under the command of Prince Friedrich Karl of Prussia in France when the Franco-Prussian War broke out in 1870/71 . Pelldram received the Iron Cross Second Class in 1870 for his military service.

With the end of the Franco-German War and the establishment of the German Empire in 1871, Pelldram resumed his legal career. He was first appointed to the Court of Justice of Breslau and in 1873 to the Higher Appeal Court in Wiesbaden . In 1875 Pelldram was appointed assessor and assistant judge in Wiesbaden.

Diplomatic career

In 1876 Pelldram entered the service of the Imperial Foreign Office and a year later was sent to the German Consulate General in Odessa , Russian Empire, and a little later as Vice Consul to the German Embassy in St. Petersburg under Ambassador Hans Lothar von Schweinitz .

In 1881 Pelldram was sent to the Chinese Empire to serve as the German consul in Tientsin . He was present on April 18, 1885 when the Treaty of Tientsin between China and Japan on the influence of these two powers in Korea was signed . From 1885 Pelldram worked in Canton ( Guangzhou ). In December 1885 Pelldram became the German envoy to the British crown colony of Hong Kong .

In 1886 Pelldram worked as consul general in Cairo in British-occupied Egypt and from 1887 as consul for the Russian-occupied Caucasus and Transcaucasia in Tbilisi (Georgia).

From 1888 to 1896 Pelldram was the German Consul General for Australia based in Sydney , or more precisely: for the colony of New South Wales , because it was not until January 1, 1901 that the colonies on the Australian continent that had been independent from each other merged to form the Commonwealth of Australia after Pelldram's tenure as German consul there. Pelldram was Gustav Travers' successor in office and Peter Kempermann's predecessor . He was also responsible for Tasmania , New Zealand and the Fiji Islands. Pelldram was the acting consul for Austria-Hungary in Australia in 1893 and 1894 and hosted Archduke Franz Ferdinand during his visit to Sydney in May 1893 on board the SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth . During his tenure in Sydney, Pelldram was assisted by the German consul Carl Ludwig Sahl , who often served in Pelldram's absence. When Sahl died in early 1897, Pelldram attended his funeral.

In August 1897 Pelldram left Sydney to take up his post as Consul General in Antwerp (Belgium). In Antwerp he is said to have had connections with the pan-Germanic movement .

Pelldram was from 1890 to at least 1900 a sponsor of the Museum für Völkerkunde in Leipzig , to which he donated "8 spears, 1 club, 2 war boomerangs and 1 throwing stick from the northern territory of South Australia" in 1899.

From 1900 to 1903, in socially troubled and politically unstable times for Haiti, Pelldram was German Minister-Resident for Haiti in Port-au-Prince .

In 1903, towards the end of the Venezuela crisis , he took up his last diplomatic position in Caracas as Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the German Empire for Venezuela .

At the beginning of 1906 Pelldram returned to Germany sick and died on February 22, 1906 in Berlin.

Literature and Sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ s. Official journal of the government in Breslau (1869), personal chronicle of the public authorities, p. 280, right column, at 4), http://opacplus.bsb-muenchen.de/title/4104043/ft/bsb10478040?page = 304
  2. ↑ a b c "Herr Pelldram, Consul-General for Germany and Doyen of the Consular Body", in: The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, October 6, 1894, p. 699, https://trove.nla.gov .au / newspaper / article / 162837641
  3. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 15, entry: »Pelldram«, p. 549, Leipzig 1908, http://www.zeno.org/nid/20007227035
  4. ↑ "Herr Pelldram was present at Tientsin when the treaty regarding Corea was made between China and Japan.", From: "Herr Pelldram, Consul-General for Germany and Doyen of the Consular Body", in: The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, October 6, 1894, p. 699, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/162837641
  5. ^ "Foreign Office, December 3, 1885: The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Alfred Pelldram as Consul at Hongkong for the German Empire"; in: The London Gazette, No. 25536, 5869, December 4, 1885, https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25536/page/5869/data.pdf (PDF; 101 kB)
  6. ^ Albrecht Hagemann: Kleine Geschichte Australiens, Beck'sche Reihe, Volume 1594, Verlag CH Beck, Munich 2004, pp. 79-80, p. 137
  7. ^ "In place of the consul general Pelldram, who has been transferred to Antwerp, the previous Minister-Resident in Bangkok Kempermann has been appointed consul general of the Reich in Sydney [...].", Thorner Presse, XV. Volume, No. 175, Fr., July 30, 1897, p. 2, category: »German Empire«, https://kpbc.ukw.edu.pl/Content/160106/KM_01427_1897_175.pdf (PDF; 10.9 MB)
  8. ↑ German Australia, German Consules General in Australia (for Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand and the Fiji Islands), http://www.germanaustralia.com/d/diplomat/genkonsul.htm
  9. ^ "Consuls", in: The Year-Book of Australia for 1894. Publisher: Turner & Henderson, Hunter Street, Sydney, p. 989, http://history-aust.com/1800/1890/1894/1894-part10 .pdf (PDF; 16.2 MB)
  10. ^ Peter Monteath, “How Archduke Franz Ferdinand took in the sights - through his sights”, in: The Australian, June 14, 2014, http://www.theaustralian.com.au/life/weekend-australian-magazine/how -archduke-franz-ferdinand-took-in-the-sights-through-his-sights / story-e6frg8h6-1226948541451
  11. ^ "Death of Consul Sahl", in: The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser, April 10, 1897, p. 769, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/163789436
  12. ^ "Telegrams", in: Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate, July 27, 1897, p. 5, https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/134880834
  13. ↑ s. Austin Harrison, The pan-Germanic doctrine; being a study of German political aims and aspirations, London & New York, 1904, p. 167, https://archive.org/details/pangermanicdoct01harrgoog/page/n190/mode/2up?q=Pelldram
  14. ^ Museum für Völkerkunde Leipzig, reports, Leipzig 1889–1900, esp .: Acquisitions 1889, from p. 19, here: p. 20, https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_BtYSAAAAYAAJ/page/n277/mode/2up? q = Pelldram
  15. ^ Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 15, keyword "Pelldram", p. 549, Leipzig 1908, http://www.zeno.org/nid/20007227035
personal data
SURNAME Pelldram, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pelldram, Alfred Leopold Robert Moritz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Żagań
DATE OF DEATH February 22, 1906
Place of death Berlin