Botho von Wedel

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Botho Graf von Wedel (born December 23, 1862 at Evenburg Castle , East Friesland ; † February 1, 1943 in Loga , East Friesland) was a German diplomat from the von Wedel family .

Life

After graduating from Vitzthum-Gymnasium Dresden and studying law at the universities of Bonn, Göttingen and Berlin, he became a trainee lawyer in 1885 and at the same time did his military service in the Imperial Army . After retiring as a lieutenant , he entered the diplomatic service and from November 13, 1877, he was employed in the rank of major as a military attaché at the German embassy in Austria . From March 1887 he switched to the embassy in France . Dach was appointed Attaché in the Foreign Office in 1889 and then Legation Secretary in 1890 . As such, he was the 3rd embassy secretary at the embassy in France until 1896. He then worked as the embassy secretary at the embassy in Spain and then between 1898 and 1899 as first secretary at the embassy in Japan . In 1899 he returned to the headquarters of the Foreign Office as a legation counselor and in 1901 was appointed counselor at the embassy in Austria .

In 1904, Graf von Wedel was appointed consul general in Budapest and then acted as envoy to the Grand Duchy of Saxony and the Thuringian courts in Weimar between 1907 and 1909 . He then returned to the Foreign Office and worked there as a secret legation councilor and lecturer council with the title of envoy.

He was most recently appointed ambassador to Austria at the end of 1916 as the successor to Heinrich von Tschirschky . There, on October 16, 1917, the title of Real Privy Councilor was awarded. In April 1917, he complained to the submission of a memorandum of kuk Foreign Minister Czernin that a negotiated peace advocated that there was a loud agitating war party in the German Reich, "our much ridiculed home hero and bully", however, consists in Austria-Hungary , "with the exception of individual of courageous souls, the whole people of Flaumachern ”.

In 1919 he retired and was replaced as ambassador in Vienna by Prince Wilhelm zu Stolberg-Wernigerode .

As the owner of the Philippsburg in Leer , he had the building extensively expanded in 1906.

Since 1882 he was a corps bow bearer of the Corps Borussia Bonn . The district administrator and parliamentarian Erhard von Wedel was his brother. His great-uncle was the diplomat and governor of Alsace-Lorraine (1907–1914), Karl von Wedel , who was also the German ambassador in Vienna from 1902 to 1907.

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 199 f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The grave of Botho von Wedel on the website www.grabsteine-ostfriesland.de; accessed on January 11, 2014
  2. ↑ Who is who? Volume 9 (1928). Verlag Hermann Degener, p. 1656.
  3. ^ Ingeborg Meckling: The foreign policy of Count Czernin. Vienna 1969, p. 70.
  4. ↑ Kösener Corps lists 1910, 19 , 570
personal data
SURNAME Wedel, Botho von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedel, Botho Graf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador to Austria (1916-1919)
DATE OF BIRTH December 23, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Evenburg Castle , East Frisia
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1943
Place of death Philippsburg near Loga, East Frisia