Gustav Michahelles

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Christian Gustav Michahelles (born July 28, 1855 in Hamburg , † October 29, 1932 in Dresden ) was a diplomat and secret councilor who represented the interests of the German Empire in several countries as envoy .

Life

Consul in Zanzibar

Michahelles studied law at the Ruprecht-Karls-University . With Otto Ehrenfried Ehlers and Friedrich Sthamer he became active in the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg in 1876 . After graduating as Dr. iur. he joined the Foreign Service in 1882 . In 1889 he succeeded Otto Arendt as consul and consul general in Zanzibar . In this function he criticized Hermann von Wissmann , the Reich Commissioner for German East Africa, who was in office between 1888 and 1891, and described his reign as a "military dictatorship". At the same time he campaigned for better staffing of the stations of the German-East African Society (DOAG) and wrote situation reports for Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and the later Reich Colonial Office on Barghasch ibn Said , the Sultan of Zanzibar , and the uprising that escalated between 1888 and 1890 of the East African coastal population . He advised against the use of local Askaris to suppress the uprising, since in his opinion they could only be formed into a real force with a lot of military "educational work" and rigor as well as constant supervision by German officers.

In 1892 he was appointed consul in Trieste , before he was subsequently employed in 1893 as a real legation councilor and lecturer in the Foreign Office in Berlin .

Minister-resident and envoy to Latin America and Europe

1898 he was appointed as successor to Heinrich Graf von Luxburg Minister Resident in Haiti and remained there until his replacement by Alfred Leopold Robert Moritz Pelldram in 1900. He was subsequently granted in 1901 to succeed the long-time resident minister, Captain Otto Zembsch , his accreditation as Prime Minister in Peru . During his tenure there, which lasted until 1910, between 1902 and 1904, and again in 1906, he was at the same time Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Bolivia .

In 1910 he succeeded Emmerich von Arco-Valley, who died on July 14, 1909, as envoy to Brazil . After three years of activity, he became envoy to Bulgaria in 1913 , while Adolf Pauli became the new envoy to Brazil. In 1915 he brokered and signed the friendship and alliance treaty with Bulgaria, which preceded its entry into the war on the part of the Central Powers .

Michahelles was last appointed in 1916 as the successor to Alfred Graf von Oberndorff , who in turn became his own successor as envoy in Bulgaria, envoy in Norway and held this office until he was replaced by Paul von Hintze in 1917.

After the First World War he retired from the diplomatic service and on January 30, 1919, joined the Hamburg-based trading company Petersen & Co. as a partner . Thanks to its relationships with Latin America , the company was able to establish trade relations with Brazil , Peru and Ecuador .

On May 9, 1921, he married Frida von Watzdorf.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 73 , 456
  2. ↑ Tanja Bührer: The Imperial Protection Force for German East Africa. 2011, ISBN 978-3-486-70442-6 , p. 40.
  3. ↑ Jutta Bückendorf: "Black-white-red over East Africa!" 1997, ISBN 3-8258-2755-0 , pp. 306, 316, 334.
  4. ↑ Thomas Morlang: “If I can't find a way, I'll find one.” The controversial “colonial hero” Hermann von Wissmann . In: Ulrich van der Heyden, Joachim Zeller (ed.): "... power and share in world domination". Berlin and German colonialism. Münster 2005, pp. 37-43.
  5. ↑ stooping Village: Black-white-red over East Africa! 1997, p. 445.
  6. ↑ stooping Village: Black-white-red over East Africa! 1997, p. 341.
  7. ↑ stooping Village: Black-white-red over East Africa! 1997, pp. 349, 366.
  8. ↑ stooping Village: Black-white-red over East Africa! 1997, p. 385.
  9. ^ Margarete Payer, Alois Payer: Chronicle of Bolivia. From the civil war 1899 to 1909. 2001/02.
  10. ↑ Erhard Geissler: Biological weapons - not in Hitler's arsenals. 1999, ISBN 3-8258-2955-3 , p. 85.
  11. ↑ Former ambassadors in Norway ( Memento of the original from September 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Homepage of the German Embassy Oslo)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.oslo.diplo.de
  12. ↑ Frank J. Nellißen: The Mannesmann commitment in Brazil from 1892 to 1995. 1997, ISBN 3-406-43193-3 , S. 118th
  13. ↑ Norbert B. Wagner: Archive of German Colonial Law (PDF; 2.0 MB), Brühl / Wesseling 2008
personal data
SURNAME Michahelles, Gustav
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Michahelles, Christian Gustav (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1855
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1932
Place of death Dresden