Georg Coates

Georg Coates (born December 15, 1853 in Luckenwalde , † October 19, 1924 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Georg Coate's father was an English factory owner. As a law student from 1875 he was a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn .

Coates lived in Japan for the first time in 1886/7 and then again in 1899–1902. During his second stay, he served as Consul General in Nagasaki.

He was the first envoy of Wilhelm II to Menelik II in Addis Ababa . Coates was a member of Friedrich Rosen's mission . Coates had gained his diplomatic experience at the embassies of the German Reich in Japan, Hong Kong and Siam . Georg Coates, was enthusiastic about the Ethiopian culture and reported on the customs and traditions in the palace of Meneliks II in a book.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 14 , 399.
2. ↑ Fuess, Harald; Self-regulation of a foreign colony: German consular jurisdiction in Japan and Korea, 1861–1913; ZJapanR, 2013, p. 68
3. ^ Heinrich Scholler: 100 years of German-Ethiopian diplomatic relations. Lit, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-9720-8 , p. 22 ( digitized version )
4. ↑ Stefan Brüne and Heinrich Scholler (eds.): On the way to modern Ethiopia: Festschrift for Bairu Tafla. Lit, Münster 2005, ISBN 3-8258-9075-9 , p. 197 ( digitized version )
5. ↑ Germany and Ethiopia - Rose Embassy ( Memento from July 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the Goethe Institute
6. ↑ Girma Fisseha: On the 100th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Germany and Ethiopia on February 19, 2005. p. 2 ( digitized version  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check Link according to instructions and then remove this note. )  

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerhard von Mutius	Ambassador of the German Reich in Ethiopia 1907-10. October 1908	Alfred Zintgraff