Alfred von Nostitz-Wallwitz

Alfred von Nostitz-Wallwitz (born December 21, 1870 in Dresden ; † December 21, 1953 at Bassenheim Castle near Koblenz) was a German civil servant and diplomat.

Life

The son of the royal Saxon ambassador in Berlin Oswald von Nostitz-Wallwitz (1830–1885) and his wife Anna born. von Wilkens-Hohenau (1842–1923) attended the monastery school in Ilfeld and the prince school of St. Afra in Meissen . He then studied law at the Neuchâtel Academy and the University of Leipzig .

After his one year military service with the Garde Reiter Regiment , Nostitz-Wallwitz completed his legal clerkship at the Freiberg and Dresden district courts , as an attaché at the royal Saxon legation in Berlin, the Dresden police department and the Annaberg official administration and finally became an assessor at the Bautzen administration . He then went on a one-year journey that took him to China , Japan and North America . This was followed by positions as a civil servant at the Kamenz administration , at the royal Saxon legation in Berlin, at the royal Saxon higher administrative court, in the royal Saxon Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Dresden district administration . In 1908 Nostitz-Wallwitz entered the service of the Grand Duchy of Saxony (-Weimar-Eisenach) for two years , where he was a lecturer in the State Ministry in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Interior. From August 1910 he was governor in Auerbach (Vogtland) before moving to Leipzig in the same position in 1913 .

From 1916 to 1918 Nostitz-Wallwitz served as the Saxon envoy in Vienna . A few weeks before the November Revolution, on October 26, 1918, he was appointed Saxon Minister of Culture. With the end of the Kingdom of Saxony , he resigned from civil service.

From 1920 to 1924 Nostitz-Wallwitz headed the Wilhelmshagen branch of the Berlin-East Social Working Group founded by Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze . From 1926 he was involved in the Franco-German Study Committee and was its German President after the death of its founder Emil Mayrisch in 1928.

Alfred von Nostitz-Wallwitz was married to the writer and Salonnière Helene von Nostitz (born von Beneckendorff and von Hindenburg ) since 1904 . He and his wife had three children, including the diplomat, publicist and translator Oswalt von Nostitz . Just like his wife, Alfred von Nostitz-Wallwitz was interested in art and literature. In 1899 he had Henry van de Velde furnish his apartment at the time . He was a member of the PAN cooperative and the German Society in 1914 .

Nostitz-Wallwitz died at Bassenheim Castle near Koblenz .

literature

• Degeners who is it? VII edition, Leipzig 1914, p. 1203.
• Degeners who is it? VIII edition, Leipzig 1922, p. 1119.

See also

• Nostitz (noble family)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Alfred von Nostitz-Wallwitz . In: Saxon Biography . Published by the Institute for Saxon History and Folklore .
2. ^ Josef Matzerath:  Nostitz-Wallwitz, Helene von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 19, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-428-00200-8 , p. 356 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ Hugo von Hofmannsthal u. Helene von Nostitz. Correspondence . Edited by Oswalt von Nostitz. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 194 (note 147).
4. ^ Harry Graf Kessler: The diary 1880-1937. Volume 5: 1914-1916 . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 3-7681-9815-4 , p. 765.