Carl von Schubert

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Carl von Schubert (1930)

Carl von Schubert (born October 15, 1882 in Berlin - † June 1, 1947 ) was a German ministerial official and diplomat and from 1924 to 1930 State Secretary in the Foreign Office.

Life

Carl was the son of the Prussian Lieutenant General Conrad von Schubert and his wife Ida Louise Henriette, née Freiin von Stumm. He inherited a large fortune from his maternal grandfather, the Saar industrialist Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg . Schubert's wife Renata (1882–1961) was a daughter of the painter Ferdinand von Harrach .

Schubert studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and was reciprocated in the Corps Borussia Bonn in 1901 . As an inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which made him Dr. iur. PhD. 1906 Schubert entered the foreign service of the empire . Among other things, he worked as a legation counselor at the German embassy in Bern, where he was involved in the “smuggling operation” of the German government, which made Lenin's journey in a sealed car possible.

In the Weimar Republic , Schubert, ministerial director from 1921, initially headed the England-America department in the Foreign Office. His pro-British attitude to work in this position brought him hostility from Karl Radek , who called Schubert a "vulgar Anglophile". In 1924 Schubert was finally selected as his state secretary by the then Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann . In this post he succeeded his friend Ago von Maltzan , who, like himself, had taken office in 1906. In the role of State Secretary, Schubert was one of Stresemann's closest confidants and a major contributor to Stresemann's foreign policy until his death in 1929. Alongside Friedrich Gaus , he was Stresemann's most important advisor. In the five years of their collaboration, Schubert took part in numerous international conferences, including the Locarno Conference , and was part of the three-person German delegation to the League of Nations in Geneva , along with Stresemann and Gaus . As the main emissary of the German government in 1929 in Khabarovsk, he played a key role in the conclusion of the armistice in the Soviet-Chinese border war . Stresemann's successor Julius Curtius replaced Schubert as State Secretary with Bernhard Wilhelm von Bülow in June 1930 . In the same month Schubert was sent by the Brüning government as German ambassador to the Quirinal (Italian government) in Rome. He was retired in 1932.

Apart from the Foreign Office, Schubert's house in Berlin's Magarethenstrasse was one of the focal points of the “better society” of the Reich capital in the 1920s, where Schubert and his wife received politicians, diplomats, business leaders and other prominent personalities. The majority of judgments about Schubert are positive: Craig calls him a “somewhat coarse, methodical and immobile Junker”. Mowrer, however, attests to him that he was "gifted".

literature

  • Foreign Office (ed.): Commemoration of the sixtieth anniversary of the death of State Secretary Ago Freiherr v. Maltzan (July 31, 1877 - September 23, 1927) and on the fortieth anniversary of the death of State Secretary Dr. Carl v. Schubert (October 15, 1882 - June 1, 1947). Bonn 1987.
  • Peter Krüger:  Schubert, Carl Theodor Conrad von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 617 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Peter Krüger: Carl von Schubert. Passionate about foreign policy. His contribution to international politics and European order in the era of the Weimar Republic , Berlin: Duncker & Humblot 2017. ISBN 978-3-428-14950-6

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ludwig Biewer , Rainer Blasius: In the files, in the world. A foray through the political archive of the Federal Foreign Office. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2007, p. 140.
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 11 , 830
  3. ↑ Dissertation: The entry of a partner in the general partnership .
  4. ↑ Harald von Riekhoff: German-Polish Relations, 1918–1933. 1971, p. 80.
  5. ↑ Gerald Mund: East Asia in the Mirror of German Diplomacy. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006, p. 47.
  6. ↑ Gordon A. Craig: The Diplomats, 1919-1939 , 1994, p. 154.
  7. ^ Edgar Ansel Mowrer: Germany Puts the Clock Back , 1939, p. 63.
personal data
SURNAME Schubert, Carl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German civil servant and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 1, 1947