Friedrich Wilhelm von Kleist (diplomat)

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Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Kleist (born July 15, 1851 in Dubbertech , Fürstenthum district ; † April 19, 1936 in Wendisch Tychow , Schlawe i. Pom. ) Was a German diplomat .

Life

Friedrich Wilhelm Count v. Kleist, eldest son of Ewald Heinrich Erdmann Bogislaff Graf v. Kleist , studied law at the University of Göttingen and did his doctorate there. During his studies in Göttingen he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . He chose a diplomatic career, was attaché in the foreign ministry, in 1877 in Rome , in 1878 consul general in Bucharest .

Shortly after his marriage to Leonie Countess Kospoth (born September 12, 1851 in Schön-Briese, Kreis Oels, daughter of Majoratsherr August Graf Kospoth and Charlotte, née von Necker) in the autumn of 1879 he was a legation counselor to the embassy in Lisbon been transferred. After further diplomatic positions, which took him to the embassy in Stockholm and the Prussian embassy in Stuttgart , Friedrich Wilhelm, who had inherited the title of count after the death of his father with the property of Wendisch Tychow , was appointed Minister-Resident in Caracas in Venezuela . During his time there, the first Protestant congregation in Venezuela was founded in January 1893 and the German school in Caracas in 1894. In 1894 he retired from the diplomatic service to take over his father's property. The Tychow mansion , which he expanded with an annex in 1895/97, owes its great interest in antique furniture to valuable furnishings with antique furniture from Portugal, Sweden and southern Germany. It was completely destroyed in 1945. In 1906 Friedrich Wilhelm inherited the goods Kollochau and Pölzen, Province of Saxony.

progeny

His eldest son, Count Ewald von Kleist (1882–1953) was the last man on Wendisch-Tychow until 1945. This had temporarily taken Dietrich Bonhoeffer on his property .

Another son, Diether von Kleist (1890–1971) was an officer and worked as a prehistorian on the Schlawe district .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 85 , 289
personal data
SURNAME Kleist, Friedrich Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kleist, Friedrich Wilhelm Count of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nobleman and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Dubbertech
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 1936
Place of death Wendisch Tychow