Friedrich von Keller (diplomat)

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Friedrich von Keller

August Friedrich Wilhelm Keller , from 1906 von Keller (born November 7, 1873 in Munich , † May 8, 1960 in Tutzing ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Keller came from a family originally resident in Swabia , which was first mentioned in a document in Burtenbach an der Mindel in 1733 . He is the son of the royal Bavarian Lieutenant General Eugen Keller (1843–1938) and Berta Hassold (1846–1929) , who was later ennobled .

Keller studied law in Würzburg , entered the Bavarian judicial service in 1895 and received his doctorate in 1896 . In 1899 he joined the foreign service and spent the first years of his career in Berlin . In 1901 he was transferred as Vice Consul to Cairo (Egypt), in 1902 to Cape Town (South Africa) and in 1904 to Lorenco Marquez ( Mozambique ). From 1905 to 1908 he was accredited as Vice Consul in Calcutta . From 1908 he worked in the legal department at the Foreign Office in Berlin. In World War I he served up to the rank of royal Bavarian major in the Landwehr until he was recalled to the Foreign Office in 1916. After the First World War he was considering the change at the University of Würzburg , but was from the Foreign Office to the peace negotiations in Versailles sent and finally in the summer of 1920 as chargé d'affaires to Belgrade displaced, where he on 18 December 1921. envoy was promoted. Subsequently (1924 to 1928) he was sent to Brussels as an envoy .

From 1928 to 1933, Frederick was by Keller as chargé d'affaires of the Government of the German Reich in Buenos Aires accredited. He replaced the first class envoy Carl Richard Gneist (1868–1939). On January 2, 1933, Keller was transferred as permanent representative of the German Empire to the League of Nations in Geneva and member of the German delegation to the Geneva Conference on Disarmament . His successor in Buenos Aires was Edmund Freiherr von Thermann (1884–1951). In October 1933 he saw Germany leave the League of Nations under the newly elected National Socialist government and was given temporary retirement for the following year for special use . He was reactivated in 1935 and sent as ambassador to Ankara until his retirement in 1938 .

Keller married Irene von Landmann on October 12, 1905 in Munich (* December 7, 1880 in Munich; † March 7, 1965 in Tutzing), the daughter of the royal Bavarian State Councilor and Minister of State Dr. jur. hc Robert Ritter von Landmann (1845–1926) and Gabriele von Auer . The couple had three sons, including Rupprecht von Keller and a daughter Gabrielle , who married the physicist Guido Dessauer .

literature

  • Genealogical manual of the nobility . Noble houses B. Volume XVI. = Volume 86 of the entire series. CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1985, p. 281.
  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .
  • Friedrich von Keller , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 28/1960 from July 4, 1960, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich's father Eugen Keller was raised to the personal knighthood as a Bavarian colonel (1891) on March 6, 1906 in Munich in the Bavarian hereditary nobility while maintaining the higher nobility grade as "knight" only for himself. His descendants, including his son Friedrich Keller , were enrolled in the aristocratic class in the Kingdom of Bavaria on March 15, 1906. - Source: Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VI, page 168, Volume 91 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1987.
  2. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , KG Saur, Munich 2012, p. 100
  3. ↑ Files of the Reich Chancellery, Weimar Republic online
  4. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963 , Verlag KG Saur, 2001, page 75f., ISBN 3598114311 and ISBN 9783598114311 ( excerpts )
  5. ^ Handbook of Diplomacy
predecessor Office successor
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Julius Adolf von Griesinger ( envoy to Serbia until 1914) 		German envoy in Belgrade
1920–1924 		Franz Olshausen
Otto Landsberg German envoy in Brussels
1924–1928 		Alfred Horstmann
Carl Richard Gneist German envoy in Buenos Aires
1928–1932 		Heinrich von Kaufmann-Asser
Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff (until 1927) Permanent representative of Germany to the League of Nations in Geneva
1933–1933 		Office dissolved
Frederic von Rosenberg German envoy in Ankara
1935–1938 		Franz von Papen
personal data
SURNAME Keller, Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Keller, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1960
Place of death Tutzing