August Kral

August Ritter von Kral (born June 20, 1869 in Braunau in Bohemia , † June 12, 1953 in Vienna ) was an Austrian diplomat .

Kral entered the diplomatic service of Austria-Hungary in 1894 and took on various posts in embassies in the Ottoman Empire and in Persia . Until 1914 he was consul in Scutari and commissioner at the international control commission for Albania . During the Bosnian annexation crisis he was entrusted with asserting Austrian interests against Serbia and Montenegro in Albania. After the conquest of Montenegro and (northern) Albania in February 1916 by the Austro-Hungarian army , a civil administrative council was set up under the chairmanship of Kral in the occupied northern two thirds of Albania, which was not actually a war participant. At Kral's suggestion, Gjergj Fishta and Luigj Gurakuqi founded the Albanian Literary Commission for a uniform Albanian orthography .

After the First World War , Kral was consul general in Hamburg from 1919 to 1921 , then envoy in Sofia . From April 1924 until his retirement in April 1932 he was the first envoy of the Republic of Austria to shape his country's relations with Turkey in Ankara . With his book Das Land Kamâl Ataturk , he also had a lasting impact on the perception of Ataturk's new Turkey in German-speaking countries.

Works

The land of Kamâl Ataturk. The history of modern Turkey . Braumüller, Vienna 1935. Translations into English and French (and Turkish?)

Web links

Literature by and about August Kral in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ Mathias Bernath (ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Oldenbourg, Munich 1979, Volume 3, ISBN 3-48648-991-7 , p. 339.
^ Michael Schmidt-Neke: Development and expansion of the royal dictatorship in Albania (1912–1939). Formation of government, mode of rule and power elite in a young Balkan state . Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-48654-321-0 , p. 43.
↑ Maximilian Lambertz , Gjergj Fishta (translation): The lute of the highlands. Oldenbourg, Munich 1958, introduction.
↑ Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl (ed.): Protocols of the Council of Ministers of the First Republic, 1918-1938 . Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-70460-121-7 , p. 510; and Stephan Neuhäuser: We will do a great job. The Austrofascist coup d'état in 1934 . ISBN 3-83340-873-1 , p. 146.

personal data
SURNAME	Kral, August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kral, August Ritter von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	June 20, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH	Braunau in Bohemia
DATE OF DEATH	June 12, 1953
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Mathias Bernath (ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Oldenbourg, Munich 1979, Volume 3, ISBN 3-48648-991-7 , p. 339.

[2] Michael Schmidt-Neke: Development and expansion of the royal dictatorship in Albania (1912–1939). Formation of government, mode of rule and power elite in a young Balkan state . Verlag Oldenbourg, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-48654-321-0 , p. 43.

[3] Maximilian Lambertz , Gjergj Fishta (translation): The lute of the highlands. Oldenbourg, Munich 1958, introduction.

[4] Rudolf Neck, Adam Wandruszka, Isabella Ackerl (ed.): Protocols of the Council of Ministers of the First Republic, 1918-1938 . Verlag der Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1980, ISBN 3-70460-121-7 , p. 510; and Stephan Neuhäuser: We will do a great job. The Austrofascist coup d'état in 1934 . ISBN 3-83340-873-1 , p. 146.