Ernst von Bothmer (diplomat)

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Ernst von Bothmer

Ernst von Bothmer (born April 18, 1841 in Nienburg / Weser , † October 1, 1906 in Heidelberg ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Ernst von Bothmer was the son of the Hanoverian politician Friedrich von Bothmer . He studied law at the universities of Heidelberg, Göttingen and Jena. At these places of study he became a member of the Corps Vandalia Heidelberg (1862), Bremensia Göttingen (1864) and Franconia Jena (1865). At the request of Heidelberg Senior Convents he worked for the commissioned Göttingen Senior Convent to be presented at the Pentecost 1867 in Kosen held annual Kösener Congress of the Corps of Kösener Senior Convents Association self-determination paper, which was adopted with minor modifications and adopted. It was published in 1869, with a few additions, as a paper on location determination under the title What are and want the German Corps? published in print by the suburb of Göttingen .

After the first state examination, von Bothmer became an auscultator in Celle in 1868 and a court assessor in the Prussian justice administration in 1873 . He was employed by the public prosecutor's office at the Arnsberg Court of Appeal and the Court of Appeal in Racibórz , and in 1875 he was given a leave of absence from the judicial administration to work in the Foreign Office . Ernst von Bothmer became Prussian Vice Consul in Constantinople in 1877 , in Jassy in 1880 and consul in Bucharest in 1881 . From the beginning of 1883 to the end of 1884 he was also a delegate in the European Danube Commission . From 1885 he represented the interests of the German Empire in Norway as Consul General in Christiania , where the Storting had enforced parliamentarianism for Norway in 1884 as the first stage of independence from Sweden (1905). The German Empire stood on the side of Union King Oskar II in Stockholm on this issue . On December 22, 1885 von Bothmer reported to the Reich Chancellor Otto von Bismarck

"The Norwegian kingdom is only a worm-eaten Galion [s] image on the state ship, a false flag under which Republican goods sails [...] So apparently heavy storms are preparing on the Scandinavian peninsula [...]"

- quoted from Stefan Gammelien, p. 33

From 1887 Ernst von Bothmer was a real councilor and lecturer in the legal department of the office in Berlin , where he was promoted to the secret councilor in 1890.

Bothmer is considered the informant behind a series of Kladderadatsch articles that appeared in 1893/94 and sharply criticized Friedrich August von Holstein . The Kladderadatsch affair is like Kotze affair expected (and others) to the scandals that shook the Wilhelmine Empire and his courtiers from the 1890s. In the further course of the affair, the publisher of Kladderadatsch Wilhelm Polstorff was asked by the diplomat and assistant to Holstein's Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter , who seriously wounded Polstorff in the pistol duel in Grunewald in 1894 . Kiderlen had made the demand to save the honor of Wilhelmstrasse , i.e. the Foreign Office .

In 1896 Bothmer took early early retirement , officially for health reasons . He retired in Berlin and was heir to the Landesbergen family estate after his childless brother Arthur . When Polstorff succumbed to the wound he had received on April 30, 1906, a few years after the duel with Kiderlen, a sealed letter was found in his estate, which was addressed to Ernst von Bothmer. Immediately after receiving it, von Bothmer shot himself on October 1, 1906.

Fonts

  • What are and what are the German corps , Deuerlich, Göttingen 1869 ( digitized version )

literature

  • Stefan Gammelien: Wilhelm II and Sweden-Norway 1888-1905: Scope and limits of a personal regiment , BWV Verlag, 2012
  • Bothmer, Ernst von , in: Johannes Hürter (edit.): Biographical manual of the German foreign service. Volume 1 A – F, Paderborn: Schöningh 2000 ISBN 3-506-71840-1 , p. 238f
  • Helmuth Rogge: The Kladderadatsch affair , in: Historische Zeitschrift 195 (1962), pp. 90-130

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 330
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 719
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 26 , 332
  4. ↑ According to Academische Monatshefte Volume 23 (1906/07), p. 237; Opposite position as pamphlet [without author]: The position of the corps in today's student life. Giessen 1869 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ Karl Nolden: Friedrich von Holstein. (Prussian heads 12) 1983 ISBN 9783877761618 , p. 88
  6. ^ Ann Taylor Allen: Satire and Society in Wilhelmine Germany: Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus, 1890--1914 , University Press of Kentucky, 2015, pp. 63-65 ( digitized version )
  7. ↑ The papers of Herr von Holstein - the splendor and decline of the Bismack empire, rediscovered in the estate of his Eminence Gray in Der Spiegel of October 2, 1957 ( digitized version )
  8. ↑ Kevin McAleer: Dueling: The Cult of Honor in Fin-de-Siecle Germany , Princeton University Press , 2014, p. 34/35 ( digitized )
  9. ^ Norman Rich: Friedrich von Holstein: politics and diplomacy in the era of Bismarck and Wilhelm II. , Volume 2, CUP Archive, 1965, p. 413 with reference to Holstein and Kiderlen-Waechter's biographer Ernst Jäckh ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Bothmer, Ernst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Nienburg / Weser
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 1906
Place of death Heidelberg