Eugene Johann Will

Eugen Johann Will (born September 4, 1877 in Aschaffenburg ; † unknown) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Born the son of a lawyer, Will studied law in Würzburg and Berlin from 1895 to 1902 . In 1895 he served as a one-year volunteer . During his studies in 1898 he became a member of the Arminia Würzburg fraternity . After his exams in 1899 and 1902 and his doctorate as Dr. iur. In 1902 he became a legal trainee in Munich and in 1903 went on a trial basis to the Foreign Office in Berlin, where he embarked on a consular career. In 1905 he became Vice Consul at the Consulate General in New York and was employed in the years 1908 and 1909 at the consulates in Denver , Cincinnati , Atlanta and Philadelphia . In 1909 he went to San José de Costa Rica as consul , in 1912 he became consul in Bahia and in 1913 in São Paulo . In 1914 he was acting temporarily at the embassy in Rio de Janeiro . In 1916 he resigned from the post in Bahia and returned to Germany in 1917, where he was put into temporary retirement and was temporarily employed in the Foreign Office, Department AN. In 1918 he went to the Helsingfors embassy as a legation counselor . From 1919 to 1921 he was busy setting up an intelligence service at the German embassies in South America . In 1921 he went to Department VI in the Foreign Office. In 1922 he became a lecturer in the Legation Council and from 1924 to 1933 he was the extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of the German Reich in Mexico . In 1933 he retired

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 6: T-Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2005, ISBN 3-8253-5063-0 , pp. 319-320.

predecessor	Office	successor
Adolf Maria Maximilian de Garnerin von Montgelas	Ambassador Extraordinary of the German Reich in Mexico 1924–1933	Walter Zechlin