Franz Olshausen

Ferdinand Walter Franz Olshausen (born June 25, 1872 in Offenbach am Main , † February 8, 1962 in Lugano ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Franz Olshausen in 1895 with the issue of moving the Doctrine of local laws in the possession of things to Dr. jur. PhD. At the beginning of the 20th century he married Käthe Olshausen-Schönberger . Her son was the biochemist Joern Olshausen (* 1903, † 1988 in San Diego). Before the First World War , Olshausen was employed in the embassy of the German Empire on Fernando Póo . In 1907 he lived as a councilor at Kulbacher Strasse 7 in Berlin and was a member of the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory.

From 1902 to 1912 he was accredited at the German embassies in Argentina, Paraguay and Brazil and toured the Amazon . On November 26, 1909, the Foreign Minister of Paraguay, Manuel Gondra , and Franz Olshausen signed an extradition agreement for Wilhelm II .

At the beginning of December 1922, Ernestas Galvanauskas appointed Franz Olshausen, the representative of the German Reich in Kaunas , and informed him of the growing impatience of his government in Lithuania with the Entente , which in the Treaty of Versailles had placed the Memel region under French administration as a League of Nations mandate Intention to have Memel occupied by Lithuania. He assumed that the government of the German Reich would not stand in the way of the occupation of Memel, as it was not directed against the German Reich, and that the government of the German Reich would not induce the local German and Jewish majority to do so To resist. Olshausen took note of the ideas of the Lithuanian government and received instructions from Berlin the next day. He agreed to hold back the Germans in Memel.

In 1926, 1927 Olshausen was accredited to the embassy of the German Reich in Belgrade . He attributed the cause of the 1926 uprising in Dukagjini in northern Albania to the influence of Yugoslavia .

literature

• Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society . The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 2: L-Z. German business publisher, Berlin 1931, DNB 453960294 .
• Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz: Berlin Contributions to Archaeometry, Volumes 4-5, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin, 1979, pp. 13, 151.
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Journal of Ethnology
2. ↑ ABC Digital - Asunción, Paraguay, 26 de Noviembre de 2008 Manuel Gondra y Franz Olshausen firman en Asunción un Tratado de Extradición entre los gobiernos de Paraguay y Alemania.
3. ↑ Alfonsas Eidintas, Vytautas Žalys, Edvardas, Lithuania in European Politics: The Years of the First Republic, 1918-1940 p. 94
4. ^ Zacharoula Karagiannopoulou, Party System and Cleavages in pre-Communist Albania , The kaleidoscope of the German and Greek diplomacy
5. ↑ Iberoamericana Quinqueecclesiensis, Dr. Franz Olshausen fue Embajador de Alemania en Chile entre 1928 (PDF; 9.7 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Charles of Luxburg	Ambassador of the German Reich in Buenos Aires 1920	Adolf Pauli
	Ambassador of the German Reich in Belgrade 1926–1927	Karl Georg Pfleiderer
Friedrich Carl von Erckert	Ambassador of the German Reich in Santiago de Chile 1928–1932	Kurt von Reiswitz and Kaderzin