Ernst Arthur Voretzsch

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Ernst Arthur Voretzsch (around 1928)

Ernst Arthur Voretzsch (born August 13, 1868 in Lucka ; † May 18, 1965 in Colmberg ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Voretzsch studied law at the University of Göttingen . In 1889 he became active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . In 1899 he joined the Foreign Service . He became Vice Consul in Calcutta , Kristiania (Oslo) and Johannesburg . He was consul in Hong Kong , Singapore , Bangkok , Shanghai , Hankow and Kristiania. In 1919 he became a commercial attaché, secret legation councilor and chargé d' affaires in Oslo . In 1920 he moved to Lisbon as envoy . In 1928 he was appointed German ambassador to Tokyo . He retired in 1933 and moved back to Colmberg Castle in Middle Franconia, which he had acquired in 1927 .

Voretzsch was a collector of East Asian art and founded a Museum for Asian Art in Bamberg in 1937 , which he directed until 1959, the estate is now in the Museum for Applied Art in Frankfurt am Main .

In 1945 he became chairman of the Chamber of Arbitration for the Ansbach district . He was one of the founders of the CSU . In 1958 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Erlangen .

Ernst Adalbert Voretzsch was a nephew.

Fonts (selection)

  • Ancient Chinese bronzes . Berlin: J. Springer, 1924.
  • Publisher: Luís Fróis : The History of Japan (1549-1578) . Leipzig: Verlag der Asia major, 1926.
  • Guide through the Museum of Asian Art in Bamberg . Bamberg: Museum of Asian Art, 1937.

literature

  • Hans Schwalbe, Heinrich Seemann: German Ambassador to Japan 1860-1973 . (= Communications from the German Society for Natural and Ethnographic Studies in East Asia, Vol. 57). Tokyo 1974, pp. 92-97.
  • Rolf-Harald Wippich: Ernst-Arthur Voretzsch - German Ambassador in Tokyo in the transition from the Weimar Republic to the “Third Reich” (1928–1933) . In: Josef Kreiner (Ed.): Japan and the middle powers . Bouvier, Bonn 1990, pp. 129-162.
  • Wolfgang von der Groeben: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006. Düsseldorf 2006, p. 65.
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , pp. 140 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 45 , 417.
personal data
SURNAME Voretzsch, Ernst Arthur
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucka
DATE OF DEATH May 18, 1965
Place of death Colmberg