Friedrich Pourtalès

Count Jacob Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Pourtalès (born October 24, 1853 in Oberhofen am Thunersee Switzerland ; † May 3, 1928 in Bad Nauheim ) was a German diplomat .

Life

The nephew of Count Albert von Pourtalès attended the Knights' Academy in Liegnitz and then served in the Prussian military before entering the diplomatic service . In 1879 he became an attaché at the German embassy in Vienna , in 1881 legation secretary in Berlin and in 1888, after stations in Vienna, The Hague and Paris , first embassy secretary in St. Petersburg . Since 1890 he was a lecturer Council of the Russian department at the Foreign Office before until 1899 Envoyin The Hague, 1902 in Munich . His career reached its climax when he was appointed German ambassador at the Tsar's court in St. Petersburg in December 1907. After he had handed over the German declaration of war to Russia on August 1, 1914 "in tears" , he returned to Germany via Sweden, where he for the remainder of the First World War he took over the management of the Russian Department at the Foreign Office in Berlin. He also acted as advisor to the German Foreign Ministers Gottlieb von Jagow , Arthur Zimmermann and Paul von Hintze .

At the crossroads between war and peace. My last negotiations in Petersburg at the end of July 1914 , 1st edition, Charlottenburg, Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft für Politik und Geschichte, 1919.

personal data
SURNAME	Pourtalès, Friedrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pourtalès, Jacob Ludwig Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	October 24, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH	Oberhofen am Thunersee Switzerland
DATE OF DEATH	May 3, 1928
Place of death	Bad Nauheim