Friedrich Richard Krauel
Friedrich Richard Krauel (born January 12, 1848 in Lübeck , † December 2, 1918 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German diplomat and historian .
Life
Krauel was the son of a judge. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school at Easter 1867 and then studied law . During his studies in 1868 he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and established himself as a lawyer in Lübeck in 1871. In 1873 he entered the foreign service and initially worked in the consular service in Amoy in China . In 1879 he became Consul General in Sydney .
In 1884 he moved to the Foreign Office in Berlin as a lecturer . With Paul Kayser , Krauel played a key role in the early colonial legislation of the German Empire. In 1885 he campaigned for the acquisition of the Carolines in the Western Pacific, which raised the so-called Carolines question. From April 1, 1890 to June 30, 1890, Krauel headed the colonial policy department of the Foreign Office with the rank of secret legation councilor , from which the Reich Colonial Office later emerged.
In 1890 he became envoy to Buenos Aires . He was then envoy to Rio de Janeiro from 1894 to 1898 . There he also worked for German emigrants to southern Brazil . In 1901 he was appointed to the Imperial Real Secret Council.
From 1904 he was honorary professor at the University of Berlin. He also worked as a publicist .
Publications
- Literature by and about Friedrich Richard Krauel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Count Hertzberg as Minister of Friedrich Wilhelm II. Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1899.
- Young Bismarck's Confessions . Mohr, Tübingen and Leipzig 1901.
- Prince Henry of Prussia and the Regency of the United States, 1786. In: The American Historical Review. Volume 17, No. 1, October 1911, pp. 44-51
literature
- Hartwin Spenkuch (arr.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Volume 8 / II. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11827-0 , p. 572 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . New series. )
- Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 161-162.
Notes and individual references
- ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 638; Karl Hinckeldeyn was his fellow high school graduate
- ↑ Marc Grohmann: Exotic Constitution. The competences of the Reichstag for the German colonies in legislation and constitutional law of the Empire (1884–1914). Tübingen 2001, p. 22
- ↑ Krauel's persistence in the Caroline question prompted his colleagues to joke that the islands would have to be called Krauelinen if they were acquired. (Thomas Morlang: Rebellion in the South Seas. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-604-8 , p. 22.)
- ↑ When Dr. Friedrich Richard Krauel (1848–1918, chief of this section from 1885 to 1890) succeded by Kusserow , this structure of the "central colonial administration" was not changed, PDF ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Wolfram von Rotenhan |
Envoy of the German Empire in Buenos Aires 1890–1894 |
Friedrich von Mentzingen |
Heinrich Count of Luxburg |
Envoy of the German Empire in Rio de Janeiro 1894–1898 |
Emmerich from Arco-Valley |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Krauel, Friedrich Richard |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1848 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Lübeck |
DATE OF DEATH | December 2, 1918 |
Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |