Anton Count of Monts
Count Anton von Monts de Mazin (born April 2, 1852 in Berlin , † October 18, 1930 in Haimhausen ) was a German diplomat .
Live and act
Monts, offspring of a French-born Prussian aristocratic family, began his diplomatic career in 1886 as an embassy secretary in Vienna , where he worked until 1890. This was followed by assignments as a Prussian envoy in Oldenburg , in the northern German Hanseatic cities and federal states, and under the chancellorship of Leo von Caprivis as German consul general in Budapest . From 1895 to 1902 he finally acted as the Prussian ambassador in Munich before he reached the high point of his career in October 1902 when he was appointed German ambassador for Italy in Rome to succeed Karl von Wedel .
He served in Rome until March 1909. During this time he warned the German government in vain of illusions in their Italian policy. With a view to the impending Racconigi Agreement between the Kingdom of Italy and Tsarist Russia of October 1909, in which both committed themselves to maintaining the status quo on the Balkan Peninsula, he wrote in a letter to the Chancellor of December 8, 1908 that rather an “Italo-Russian Entente” than Italy's loyalty to the alliance in the event of war is to be expected. The hint was ignored.
On his dismissal as ambassador in favor of the future Foreign Minister Gottlieb von Jagow , which soon followed , a friend of Monts' judged in retrospect: "(He fell) out of favor because the Kaiser did not want to hear the truth, but only what suited him."
Mont's hope of being appointed to succeed Bernhard von Bülow as Reich Chancellor did not come true.
In 1908 Monts married Henriette Haniel, the widow of the late industrialist Eduard Haniel von Haimhausen .
literature
- Karl Friedrich von Nowak, Friedrich Thimme (ed.): Memories and thoughts of the ambassador Anton Count Monts . Berlin 1932.
Individual evidence
- ↑ GP 27/1, No. 9877
- ↑ Erika von Watzdorf-Bachoff: In the change and in the transformation of time . P. 88.
- ↑ Fritz Fellner: From the Triple Alliance to the League of Nations. Studies on the history of international relations 1882–1919. 1994, p. 154
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Ludwig von Plessen-Cronstern |
German Consul General in Budapest 1890–1894 |
Max von Ratibor and Corvey |
| Max von Thielmann |
Prussian envoy in Munich 1895–1902 |
Friedrich Pourtalès |
| Karl von Wedel |
German ambassador in Rome 1903–1909 |
Gottlieb von Jagow |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monts, Count Anton von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Monts de Mazin, Count Anton von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1852 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 18, 1930 |
| Place of death | Haimhausen |