Guido from Call

Guido Freiherr von Call zu Rosenburg and Kulmbach (born September 6, 1849 in Trieste , † May 12, 1927 in Graz ) was an Austrian diplomat and politician.

Guido von Call (1900)

Trade Minister Guido von Call in his study (1901)

Life

Call attended the Schottengymnasium and the Imperial and Royal Academy for Oriental Languages in Vienna and entered the foreign service of the Imperial and Royal Monarchy in 1872 . From 1875 he took on various functions in Constantinople, both in the consulate and at the embassy. Further diplomatic activities followed in Berlin (1894) and Sofia (1895).

From 1900 Call served in the bourgeois-liberal cabinet of Ernest von Koerber as Minister of Commerce. The generous expansion of the port in Trieste as well as the construction of the Tauernbahn and Karawankenbahn fell under his aegis . Call also got a new law to protect workers.

After the resignation of the Koerber government, Call served briefly under Prime Minister Paul Gautsch in 1905 and then became the first section head in the Foreign Ministry led by Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal . In 1909 the diplomat finally moved to Japan and headed the embassy in Tokyo until his retirement in 1911. In 1916 Call moved to Graz, where he was Vice President of Steiermärkische Sparkasse between 1924 and 1927 .

He is buried in the St. Leonhard Cemetery in Graz .

Web links

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• Call to Rosenburg and Kulmbach Guido Frh. From. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 1, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1957, p. 133.
• Karl Otmar Freiherr von Aretin:  Call to Rosenburg and Kulmbach, Guido Freiherr von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 3, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1957, ISBN 3-428-00184-2 , p. 94 f. ( Digitized version ).