Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen

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Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen

Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen (born December 12, 1870 in Ruhrort ; † January 14, 1935 in Munich ) was a German diplomat and State Secretary in the Foreign Office.

Life

Haimhausen Castle

Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen was born as the son of the rentier Max Berthold Haimhausen and his wife Clara nee. Haniel was born in Ruhrort. The upbringing in the parental home was based on the values ​​of the Protestant faith. Due to the early death of his father, he grew up with his stepfather Emil Uhles. He attended the Gymnasium in Wiesbaden and the later Lessing Gymnasium (Frankfurt am Main) and passed his Abitur on September 29, 1890. In the same year he began his military service as a one-year volunteer , which ended on September 30, 1891. At the same time, he enrolled at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität for law. In 1891 he was reciprocated in the Corps Palatia Bonn . He completed his law studies on November 17, 1893 with the trainee examination. On November 27 of the same year he was active in the Prussian judicial and administrative service. On 13 January 1894, he was from the Georg-August University of Göttingen to Dr. iur. PhD . Shortly thereafter, in March, he was promoted to Second Lieutenant of the Reserve.

In the diplomatic service

On January 11, 1900, Haniel was drafted into the Foreign Office . His first assignment abroad took him to the German embassy in Brussels. He began his service in Belgium on March 1, 1900, but already on July 29, he moved to a temporary employment at the embassy in Tangier and from August 3, 1900 to Paris. The German ambassador at the Hôtel Beauharnais at that time was Count Georg Herbert zu Münster (1820–1902). Here his period of service ended on December 30th with the aim of taking up a position at the German embassy in Constantinople as early as January 1901. Here, too, he only had a short period of three months' employment before he was appointed second legation secretary to the embassy in Bern. Here he began his service on May 8th, during which he had been assigned the provisional management several times for two to three weeks. From the end of the year, a next foreign assignment was planned in Rio de Janeiro , at the German legation, which he took up on February 26, 1902. The German charge d'affaires in Brazil at that time was Karl Georg von Treutler (1858–1933). His assignment ended here in May 1905 and in September of the same year he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve. In the following year, on March 5, 1906, he moved again to the German embassy in Constantinople . Here was now Adolf Baron Marschall von Bieberstein become (1842-1912) d'affaires. From November 1906 Haniel von Haimhausen had the character of legation secretary. From Constantinople he moved to the German Embassy in Athens on April 21, 1907 . Here, too, the work came to an end after a year and a change to the position of 2nd secretary was on the horizon. At the turn of the year 1908/09 he began his service at the German Embassy in London . Paul Wolff Graf von Metternich (1853–1934) was deployed here as the German ambassador . Haniel's time in London came to an end in early 1911 and he took up his post on February 8, 1911 as 1st Secretary and Counselor at the German Embassy in Washington, DC . Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff (1862–1939) was German Ambassador to the United States . In 1913, while still in the position of 1st secretary, Haniel von Haimhausen became captain of the reserve. During his service at the embassy he kept in close contact with the military attaché Franz von Papen (1879–1969), who arrived in Washington in December 1913 . With the naval attaché Karl Boy-Ed (1872–1930) deployed at the embassy, ​​he had built an espionage and sabotage network that violated efforts to neutralize, while covering his diplomatic activities in the USA. Both people were expelled from the country in 1916. From January 1917, von Haniel von Haimhausen took on the role of envoy. However, on February 15, 1917, when the USA declared war on Germany, diplomatic relations were broken off and the embassy closed.

Back in Germany

After returning to Berlin, Haniel was initially employed from April 1, 1917 in the Foreign Office in Department IA (Politics). However, from April 15th he was head of the United States of America, Cuba, Mexico and Philippines department. From November 16, 1918 he was a representative of the Political Department of the Armistice Commission in Spa. With the end of his work in the commission on March 18, 1919, he moved in April 1919 to the leadership of the political commission of the German peace delegation that met in Versailles, which took part in the negotiations for the Versailles Peace Treaty . After that he was first Undersecretary of State in July , then from May 20, 1920 State Secretary for Political Affairs in the Foreign Office. But just two years later, on December 18, 1922, he was transferred to temporary retirement.

As State Secretary z. In December 1922 Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen became the representative of the Reich government at the Bavarian government in Munich. From January 1923 he was appointed envoy and with great skill he filled the representation of the Reich government in Munich until 1931 . His assignment as envoy ended in March 1931. In mid-1933 he was retired. He died at the age of 64.

family

Haniel owned the Haimhausen Castle near Munich. As King of Prussia, Wilhelm II. Haniel rose to the hereditary Prussian nobility in 1905. Haniel's first marriage from 1903 to Margarete von Brauchitsch , his second marriage from 1926 to Hedwig Freifrau von Branca nee. Frankenburger, the mother of the architect Alexander Freiherr von Branca , married. His second wife Hedwig brought the children Brigitte (* 1904) and Günther (* 1908) into the marriage.

literature

  • Joachim Petzold: Franz von Papen, a German fate . Book publisher Munich 1995.
  • Hans Rein: Franz von Papen in the twilight of history. His last trial, 1979 . Namos Publishing Company Baden-Baden.
  • Haniel v. Haimhausen, Edgar, Karl, Alfons, in: Reichs Handbuch der Deutschen Gesellschaft , Vol. 1: A – K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , pp. 652–653.
  • Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871–1945, Ed. Foreign Office, Schöningh Verlag Volume 3, 2014, pp. 194f.
  • Marineattaché, Books LLCm Wiki Series, Memphis USA, p. 15ff.
  • Hiltrud Frühauf: Edgar Haniel von Haimhausen (1870-1935): State Secretary, envoy and lord of the castle in the Dachau region . Amperland , Volume 55, Issue 4 (2019), pp. 136–143.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 14/532.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the doctrine of the nature and proof of error in the condictio indebiti, taking into account the more recent legislation .
  3. ↑ Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871–1945, Ed. Foreign Office, Schöningh Verlag Volume 3, 2014, pp. 194f.
  4. ↑ Joachim Petzold, Franz von Papen a German Doom, Buchverlag Munich 1995
  5. ↑ Robert Volz; Haniel v. Haimhausen, Edgar, Karl, Alfons. ' In: Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1: A-K. Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930, DNB 453960286 , pp. 652–653.
  6. ↑ Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871–1945, Ed. Foreign Office, Schöningh Verlag Volume 3, 2014, pp. 194f.
personal data
SURNAME Haniel von Haimhausen, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haniel, Edgar (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 12, 1870
PLACE OF BIRTH Ruhrort (today Duisburg)
DATE OF DEATH January 14, 1935
Place of death Munich