Claus von Below-Saleske

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Claus von Below-Salske

Konrad Alexander Konrad Claus (Klaus) von Below-Saleske (born April 8, 1866 in Saleske , Pomerania ; † August 14, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Claus von Below-Saleske, the third son of Nikolaus von Below and Sophie Baroness Varnbiiler to and from Hemmingen, studied at the University of Goettingen law . In 1885 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . After completing his legal clerkship, he joined the Foreign Service as an attaché in 1891 . After first assignments in 1892 at the embassy in Brussels and in 1893 in London , he worked from 1894 to 1896 at the consulate general in Cairo and then at the embassy in Constantinople as legation secretary. In 1898 he was employed at the embassy in Madrid and in 1899 at the embassy in Stockholm . At the time of the Boxer Rebellion he was legation counselor and chargé d'affaires in Beijing , then in Vienna , Lisbon , Athens and Constantinople. In 1908 he was appointed consul general in Calcutta .

As the successor to Konrad Gisbert Wilhelm Freiherr von Romberg , von Below-Saleske became envoy in Bulgaria in 1910 and worked there until he was replaced by Gustav Michahelles in 1912. During his time there, the First Balkan War , in which the German government tried at the end of January 1913, was moderating to act on Bulgaria, although this concession was strictly rejected by Bulgaria in early February 1913.

In 1913 von Below-Saleske succeeded Hans von Flotow as envoy in Belgium and worked there until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.

On August 2, 1914, he presented the Belgian Foreign Ministry with a diplomatic note in which the German Empire took the view that France intended to "take action against Germany" over Belgian territory. For this reason, on August 2, 1914, he also sent a request from the Chief of the General Staff , Colonel General Helmuth Johannes Ludwig von Moltke , whether Germany would receive free passage through Belgium if an "imminent war against France and Russia " broke out.

From the beginning of 1915 he participated in the First World War as a delegate of use in Tilsit and Libau and from autumn 1917 until the end of the war as a stage delegate in Bucharest.

After the war he was appointed head of the court and property administration of Prince Friedrich Heinrich of Prussia.

literature

  • 358 † von Below, Karl Alexander Konrad Klaus . In: Hasso von Etzdorf, Wolfgang von der Groeben , Erik von Knorre: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia (1840-1844) as of February 13, 1972 , pp. 59-60.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Elisabeth von Heyking: Diaries from Four Parts of the World , 5th edition, 1926.
  2. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbook of Diplomacy 1815-1963. Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany , 2001, ISBN 3110956845 , p. 149.
  3. ^ Albert Hopmann: The eventful life of a “Wilhelminer” , 2004, ISBN 348656840X , p. 302.
  4. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbook of Diplomacy 1815-1963. Foreign mission chiefs in Germany , 2001, ISBN 3110956845 , p. 85.
  5. ↑ Ferdinand Tönnies : Ferdinand Tönnies Complete Edition: 1911-1915: Guide to a lecture on theoretical economics , 2000, ISBN 3110158426 , p. 103.
  6. ↑ Jonathan Martin Kolkey: Germany on the March: A Reinterpretation of War and Domestic Politics Over the Past Two Centuries , 1995, ISBN 0761800301 , p. 187.
predecessor Office successor
Konrad Gisbert Wilhelm Freiherr von Romberg Envoy to Bulgaria
1910–1912 		Gustav Michahelles
Hans von Flotow Envoy to Brussels
1912–1914 		---
personal data
SURNAME Below-Saleske, Claus von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Below-Saleske, Karl Konrad Alexander Klaus (different name spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Saleske , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH August 14, 1939
Place of death Berlin