Georg Martius

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Georg Feodor Albert Martius (born May 7, 1884 in Bonn , † December 2, 1951 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat.

The grave of Georg Martius and his wife Maria and daughter Annemarie in the Conze family grave in the Lichterfelde park cemetery in Berlin.

Life

During his studies, the son of the philosopher Götz Martius became a member of the Frankonia Heidelberg fraternity in 1902 . After completing his law degree, he joined the Prussian Ministry of Justice and received his doctorate in 1906. jur. From 1911 he was an assessor. During the First World War he was assistant naval director-assessor in the Reichsmarineamt. After the war ended, he became a member of the DDP in 1919 , to which he belonged until 1932.

Martius had worked in the Foreign Office since 1919 , where he was appointed Legation Councilor in 1920. From 1922 to 1923 he was Legation Counselor at the Embassy in Paris and then until 1932 he was Legation Counselor in the Foreign Office.

Among other things, he worked as a member of the German delegation to the League of Nations and in the European Danube Commission .

From 1932 to 1934 he held the post of envoy 2nd class in Riga . His predecessor in office was Friedrich Stieve . In September 1934 Eckhard von Schack was appointed Martius' successor. From 1934 Martius headed the special department for shipping and the commission for international shipping negotiations. In 1937 Martius was entrusted with the provisional management of the legation in Montevideo . From 1938 he headed the department for general traffic affairs in the economic then trade policy department.

Since October 29, 1914 Martius was married to Maria Mathilde, nee Conze. The couple had six children: Irmgard Bertha Margarethe, Siegfried Peter Götz, Anna Maria ("Annemarie") Elisabeth, Walter Feodor Heinrich, Arnold Hans Georg and Margarete Maria Mathilde.

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 39-40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gabriele Toepser-Ziegert, Hans Bohrmann: Nazi press instructions of the pre-war period: Edition and Documentation , Volume 2, Saur, 1985, p. 498.
  2. ↑ Georg Martius at http://baseportal.de
personal data
SURNAME Martius, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martius, Georg Feodor Albert (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH 2nd December 1951
Place of death Berlin