Edmund Rhomberg

Edmund Rhomberg (born September 15, 1875 in Munich , † October 14, 1944 in Sandau ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Edmund Rhomberg was the son of Johanna Bürkel (* 1846, † 1925), a daughter of Heinrich Bürkel and Edmund Rhomberg, a Bavarian officer in the 2nd Cuirassier Regiment, Prince Adalbert. He married Anna Glimm, a painter, and graduated from high school in July 1894. From October 1, 1894 to January 20, 1895 he was a year-old volunteer in the Bavarian Army . From 1895 to 1898 he studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich Law .

On July 15, 1898, he passed the first state examination in law, and on December 9, 1899, he received his doctorate in law . On September 1, 1898, he joined the Foreign Service of the Kingdom of Bavaria . From 1902 to 1909 he was employed in Cairo , Barcelona and Caracas . In 1909 he became a councilor in Caracas. From 1911 to 1913 he was employed in Mexico City , Paris and Tangier . He was then employed in Tokyo until February 1913 . He was promoted to lecturing council in 1916, and to secret legation councilor in 1917.

In December 1917, he replaced Hans Arthur von Kemnitz as head of Section 143 East Asia. From 1920 to 1928 he was envoy in Oslo . From 1928 to 1929 he was deputy head of the German Reich embassy in Rio de Janeiro . In 1933 he was retired .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Rhomberg, Edmund . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 26th part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1874, p. 6 ( digitized version ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Frederic von Rosenberg, Frederic von Rosenberg: Correspondence and files of the German diplomat , p. 107
2. ^ Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp, Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service: LR, Foreign Office. Historical service, F. Schöningh, 2008, 749 S., S. 643

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerhard von Mutius	German ambassador in Oslo 1920–1928	Wilhelm Theodor Erich Wallroth (* 1876, † 1929)