Ernst von Heintze-Weißenrode

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Ernst Konrad Franz Freiherr von Heintze-Weißenrode (born July 3, 1862 in Berlin , † April 25, 1951 in Wiesbaden ) was a German diplomat and court official.

family

Ernst von Heintze-Weißenrode was the son of the landowner Friedrich Freiherr von Heintze-Weißenrode and Caroline, born Freiin von Thielmann. The family's ancestral home was the Niendorf estate near Lübeck , which his great-grandfather, the physician Friedrich Adolf von Heinze , had acquired in 1802 . His grandfather was Josias Friedrich Ernst von Heintze-Weissenrode . Like their grandfather, his uncle Johann Adolph and his brother Adolf were district administrators of the Bordesholm district . His later divorced marriage to Adele von François was childless.

Life

After attending high school in Kiel studied Heintze-Weißenrode at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin right and cameralistics . In 1882 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After graduating as Dr. jur. he entered the diplomatic service. He first served as a legation counselor at the imperial embassies in Buenos Aires and Stockholm . From 1903 to 1905 he was the first extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of the German Reich in Cuba . As Minister Resident a. D. with the title of Excellence , he lived at Schwarzenfeld Castle in the Upper Palatinate and later in Lübeck .

Heintze-Weißenrode was chamberlain of the German Emperor Wilhelm II and Rittmeister of the reserve of the 1st Guard Dragoon Regiment since 1899 .

Max Liebermann : Polo game in Hamburg's Jenischpark (1903)

He had become acquainted with the game of polo as a Legation Councilor in Buenos Aires and also introduced it in Germany. On January 3, 1898, he was one of the founders of the Hamburg polo club , the first polo club in Germany.

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902. Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 206.
  • GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928. Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 202.
  • Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 101 .

Individual evidence

  1. Death register of the Wiesbaden registry office No. 793/1951.
  2. ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 9 , 666
  3. a b Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 569
  4. ^ Heinrich Hasperg: Polo. 1907, reprint BoD 2010 ISBN 9783941551022 , p. 11