Carl Alexander von Riepenhausen

Carl Alexander von Riepenhausen (born November 28, 1876 in Gotha ; † 1944 ) was a German diplomat and politician.

Life

Carl Alexander von Riepenhausen was the son of the manor owner and parliamentarian Karl von Riepenhausen on Crangen in the district of Schlawe i. Pom. and Nathalie geb. Baroness of Uexkull . After visiting the Vitzthum Gymnasium Dresden and the French Gymnasium in Berlin , he studied at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and the alma mater Gryphiswaldensis law . In 1895 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . From 1896 to 1904 he served in the Prussian military. In 1900 he was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. As a lieutenant à la suite of the 1st Guards Dragoon Regiment, he became an attaché in the Foreign Office in 1902 . From 1904 to 1912 he was legation secretary in London , Tokyo , Athens and Dresden . In 1911 he was appointed Legation Councilor and in 1912 he was made a member. At the First World War he took from 1914 to 1917 as an officer in part. His last rank was major in the reserve. In 1918 he returned to the service of the Foreign Office and worked from the end of 1918 to the beginning of 1920, initially as a provisional and finally as a manager at the German Embassy in Vienna . In 1920 he was re-appointed, he became German ambassador in Luxembourg for a short time in 1923 . He was out of service since 1934.

Von Riepenhausen was a member of the German men's club . Glory, geb. Duncombe he was married childless.

literature

• Winfried Becker: Frederic von Rosenberg (1874–1937): Diplomat from the late Empire to the Third Reich, Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic , 2011, p. 277
• Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 236
• GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 231

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 9 , 780
2. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 684