Carl Gottlieb Bünz
Carl Gottlieb Bünz (born July 25, 1843 in Marne (Holstein) , † September 15, 1918 in Atlanta ) was a German diplomat.
Life
Carl Gottlieb Bünz was a son of the rector and organist Hinrich Christian Bünz and his wife Telsche, b. Moritz. He attended grammar school in Meldorf and from April 1863 studied law in Kiel , Leipzig and Berlin . In Kiel he was a member of the Corps Holsatia . In 1867 he passed the state examination in law. In 1868 he became assessor at the district court in Itzehoe , in 1870 provisional magistrate in Eddelak, and in 1876 mayor in Glückstadt . He switched to the Foreign Service in 1888 and became an attaché at the Consulate General in New York City in 1889 , then acting Consul General in Port-au-Prince , 1891 Consul in Chicago , 1899 Consul General in New York. On March 24, 1904, he was appointed Privy Legation Councilor and in the same year he was Reich Commissioner at the International Court of Arbitration in The Hague in the Venezuela case. From January 1909 to January 1911, Bünz was Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Mexico . In 1911 he was retired.
After his departure, Bünz was the delegate of the German creditors at the Administration de la Dette Publique Ottomane in Constantinople and from 1914 to 1915 general agent for the Hamburg-America Line in New York. In this role, he had German cruisers in the Atlantic supplied with coal and provisions by neutral ships. In December 1915 he was charged with this and sentenced to 18 months in prison for "conspiracy to defraud the United States". The judgment became final after the appeal was rejected. Bünz began his sentence on April 23, 1918 in Atlanta State Prison, where he became seriously ill and died in September 1918. He did not live to see President Woodrow Wilson's pardon on the day of his death.
Awards
- Order of the Red Eagle 3rd class
- Royal Crown Order (Prussia) 2nd class with ribbon
- Order of the Red Eagle 2nd class with oak leaves
- Oak leaves for the Prussian Crown Order 2nd class
- Order of the Württemberg Crown , Knight
literature
- Kurt Rendtorff, Friedrich Prüser, Thomas Otto Achelis : The members of the Holsatia . 3rd part: 1848-1895, o.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 75 , 312
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hans von Wangenheim | Extraordinary envoy of the German Reich in Mexico 1909–1911 |
Radolf von Kardorff |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bünz, Carl Gottlieb |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1843 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Marne (Holstein) |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 15, 1918 |
| Place of death | Atlanta |