Eduard von Derenthall
Kurt Eduard von Derenthall (born January 18, 1835 in Butow , Saatzig district , † May 8, 1919 in Berlin ) was a lawyer , Imperial German envoy and politician.
family
He comes from a mayor family from Höxter on the Weser and was the son of the landowner and royal Prussian major Albert von Derenthall (1795–1881), landlord of the Pomeranian estates of Butow in the Saatzig district and Pustamin in the Schlawe district, and Luise von der Marwitz (1809-1895).
Derenthall married Luise du Bois (born May 16, 1853 in Brussels , Belgium , † June 7, 1941 in Kreitzig , Pomerania ) on October 12, 1878 in the Hague ( Netherlands ) , the daughter of the royal Dutch ambassador Henri Charles du Bois and Emma Friedrike John. There were at least two children from this marriage. His daughter Emma Viktoria (* 1880; † 1960) married the Pomeranian manor owner and district administrator Rüdiger von der Goltz .
Life
Derenthall began his career in 1859 as a government trainee in Frankfurt (Oder) , was a government assessor in Berlin and Stettin ( Pomerania ) from 1864 to 1865 and from 1866 worked in various functions in the Foreign Office . In 1873 he became counselor in the legation and from 1876 counselor in Rome . In 1882 he became Consul General in Alexandria ( Egypt ) and in 1885 was the first delegate of the Suez Canal Commission in Paris . In 1886 he became a secret legation councilor and envoy in Weimar and from Lisbon ( Portugal ). In 1896 he became the Imperial Real Privy Councilor and from 1897 to 1903 he was ambassador to Stuttgart . In the summer of 1899 and 1900 he took over the representation of the Undersecretary in the Foreign Office.
In 1903 he was appointed a member of the Prussian mansion for life by the king out of "the highest degree of trust" , to which he belonged until 1918. Derenthall was also a legal knight of the Order of St. John .
literature
- Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses, series B, volume XXI, page 70, volume 108 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1995, ISSN 0435-2408
- Acta Borussica Volume 8 / I (1890-1900) (PDF file; 2.72 MB)
- Acta Borussica Volume 8 / II (1890-1900) (PDF file; 2.19 MB)
Footnotes
- ↑ Jürgen W. Schmidt: The district administrators of the Schivelbein district (1865-1932) . In: Baltic Studies Volume 98 NF, 2012, ISSN 0067-3099 , p. 97.
- ↑ E. David (Ed.): Handbook for the Prussian manor house . Berlin 1911, p. 318 ( online ).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Ernst von Treskow |
Envoy of the German Empire in Egypt 1882–1885 |
Otto L. Schmidt-Leda |
| Hippolytus von Bray-Steinburg |
Ambassador of the German Empire in Lisbon 1894–1897 |
Christian von Tattenbach |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Derenthall, Eduard von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Derenthall, Kurt Eduard von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat and politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 18, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Butow , Saatzig district |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 8, 1919 |
| Place of death | Berlin |