Friedrich Wilhelm Karl of Syburg

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Wedding photo in 1905 in Yokohama

Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von Syburg (born October 15, 1854 in Glogau , † June 8, 1934 in Marburg ) was a German diplomat .

Origin and family

His parents were Major General Karl August von Syburg (1801–1879) and his second wife Emilie Christiane Julie Gaffron (1828–1898).

On March 6, 1905 he married Ida Marie Kayser (1863–1947) in Yokohama , from 1888 soprano in Bayreuth , to Lübeck, first coloratura soubrette at the Grand Ducal Theater in Weimar until 1905. The couple had a son.

Life

Syburg studied law at the University of Berlin and was a trainee lawyer at the Higher Regional Court in Berlin . In 1883 he joined the foreign service. From 1903 to 1912 he was Consul General Yokohama in Japan. From January 1913 to 1919 he was envoy in Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia ).

From September 27, 1916, the coronation of Zauditu , he was interned. In 1918 he was retired . In 1921 he was incapacitated because he had acquired a mental defect during his internment .

literature

  • Clemens Steinbicker: History and lineage of the family from Syborg (burg) in Magdeburg and related families. P. 25f. In: Archives for kin research and all related areas. Issue 113.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wedding announcement. In: The Japan Daily Mail. P. 266.
  2. ^ Wolbert GC Smidt: Photos as Historical Witnesses: The First Ethiopians in Germany and the first Germans in Ethiopia, the history of a complex relatinship. LIT Verlag Münster, 2015, p. 108 ; Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbook of Diplomacy 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany. KG Saur Verlag, Munich 2001, p. 72.
  3. ^ Franz Amadeus Dombrowski: Ethiopia's Access to the Sea. Brill, Leiden 1985, p. 67.
  4. ^ Archives for kin research and all related areas. Volume 55, Starke, Limburg 1989, p. 28
predecessor Office successor
Walter Zechlin Ambassador of the German Reich in Ethiopia
January 1913 to 1919 		Lorenz Jensen
personal data
SURNAME Syburg, Friedrich Wilhelm Karl von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Glogau
DATE OF DEATH June 8, 1934
Place of death Marburg