Arthur Schmidt-Elskop

Arthur Schmidt-Elskop (born October 13, 1875 in Elskop , Steinburg district , † November 4, 1952 ) was a German diplomat .

Life and activity

Schmidt-Elskop was a son of Hermann Schmidt (1847–1924) and Mathilde geb. Ahsbahs (1848-1919). He studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Kaiser Wilhelms University of Strasbourg . In 1897 he was in the Corps Franconia Munich and in the Corps Rhenania Strasbourg recipiert . In 1905 he joined the Foreign Service . In 1907 he was sent to Buenos Aires as Vice Consul , where he headed the German Consulate General in the following years. In 1911 he returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin as a permanent laborer , where he was promoted to Legation Council in 1912 and to Lecturing Council in 1918 . In 1919 Schmidt-Elskop was appointed conductor of the United Press Department of the Reich government with the rank of a secret legation councilor. In this position he worked on the circular of April 30, 1920, which introduced a request to the press department as part of the issuing of visas to journalists. On January 12, 1923, he was appointed Reich Press Chief by the government led by Wilhelm Cuno . He retained this post until Gustav Stresemann took office in the summer of the same year. At this point he was sent to Montevideo as the German envoy . In 1932 he took over the post of German ambassador for Argentina in Rio de Janeiro and in 1936 he was promoted to ambassador there.

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 106/622, 100/175
2. ↑ Thomas Wittek: Forever enemy? The image of Germany in the British mass media after the First World War. Oldenbourg, Munich 2005, p. 134

predecessor	Office	successor
	German ambassador in Montevideo 1923–1928	Kurt Luedde-Neurath
Hubert Knipping	German envoy in Rio de Janeiro 1933–1937	Karl Ritter