Gerhard von Mutius

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Gerhard von Mutius (born September 6, 1872 in Gellenau , Glatz district , province of Silesia , † October 18, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat .

Origin and career

His parents were Hans Franz Adolf Siegismund von Mutius (born August 13, 1825 - March 26, 1883) and his wife Eleonore Emilie Gerta von Bethmann-Hollweg (born August 14, 1831), a daughter of the politician Moritz August von Bethmann-Hollweg . His brother Maximilian was a Prussian major general. He was born at Schloss Gellenau in the county of Glatz , which had been in the family since 1788. He spent his childhood there and on the family estate in Altwasser .

After graduating from high school in 1893 at Schulpforta , he studied law at the universities of Freiburg , Leipzig and Berlin. In 1896 he passed the trainee examination at the Berlin Chamber of Commerce . He then began a civil service career at the Lewin District Court . After completing his military service with the 4th Silesian Dragoons Regiment , he entered the diplomatic service and was entrusted with the following positions:

  • 1903 embassy attaché in Paris
  • 1904–1905 embassy attaché in Petersburg
  • 1906–1907 ministerial official at the Reich Chancellery in Berlin
  • 1908 Counselor in Beijing
  • 1909 Counselor in Paris
  • 1911 Counselor in Constantinople
  • 1914 special diplomatic envoy in Petersburg
  • 1915–1917 diplomatic representative at the Generalgouvernement in Warsaw
  • 1918–1920 German envoy in Oslo
  • 1921 Diplomatic Representative at the Peace Commission in Paris
  • 1920–1921 chairman of the German peace delegation, then head of department in the Foreign Office
  • 1923–1927 German envoy in Copenhagen
  • 1927–1931 German envoy in Bucharest
  • 1931 Plenipotentiary of the German Reich at the League of Nations in Geneva

Despite his demanding work as a diplomat, he wrote numerous philosophical books and treatises. He was a cousin of the liberal Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg . The writer Dagmar von Mutius is his daughter.

Works

  • The focus of culture . Verlag Reichl, Darmstadt 1919
  • East Asian pilgrimage. From the diary of a trip to China and Japan 1908/09 (= series of the Prussian yearbooks, 2). Stilke, Berlin 1921 ( digitized version )
  • Thought and experience. Outline of a Philosophy of Value . Publishing house Reichl, Darmstadt 1922
  • Beyond person and thing. Sketches and lectures on the philosophy of the personal . Bruckmann-Verlag, Munich 1925
  • On the mythology of the present. Thoughts about the nature and connection of cultural efforts . Munich 1933
  • The three realms. An attempt at philosophical reflection . Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, Berlin 1916
  • The praise of the small town . A portrait of the town of Lewin . In: Zeitwende , Munich 1926
  • Completed times . Autobiography, self-published, Sibiu, 1926

literature

  • Ferdinand Tönnies : G. v. Mutius og den danske culture . [dan. 1935]. In: Ferdinand Tönnies Gesamtausgabe , Vol. 22, Berlin / New York 1998, pp. 459–464 (Ger. 545–550)
  • Dagmar von Mutius : Distance and closeness. Memory of my father . In: Invitation to an old house . ISBN 3-921519-40-3 , pp. 267-273
  • Karl Schindler: Memories of the Lewiner Ländchen, Groafschaftersch Häämtebärnla , Lüdenscheid, 1956
  • Handbook of the Prussian Nobility, Volume 2, 1893, page 443

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Individual evidence

  1. See also: Günter Gerstmann: Gerhard von Mutius - diplomat and philosopher . In: "Schlesischer Kulturspiegel", vol. 44, 2009, no. 4, p. 94.