Hans Adolf von Bülow

Hans Adolf von Bülow (born December 31, 1857 in Braunschweig , † July 15, 1915 in Hamburg ) was a German diplomat .

Live and act

Bülow was born in 1857 as the offspring of a family of officers and diplomats from the von Bülow family of Mecklenburg nobility . After attending grammar schools in Hildesheim, Bonn, Neuss and Wernigerode, he passed his Abitur in March 1878. From 1878 to 1881 he studied law and political science in Bonn, Brussels and Berlin. He had been a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn since 1879 . In July 1881 he obtained the trainee examination.

As a reserve officer he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve in 1882, in 1891 to prime lieutenant in the reserve and in 1897 to Rittmeister .

In October 1881 he entered the Prussian judicial service, in which he remained until June 1888. This was followed by a phase of intensive travel through southern and northern Europe, which lasted until 1888. In 1889 he was appointed Royal Prussian Chamberlain and in June 1902 he was appointed Royal Prussian Chamberlain .

In February 1889, Bülow entered the service of the Foreign Office . There he initially worked in the “Personnel and Administration” department before moving to the “Politics” department in October. After he was promoted to legation secretary in 1890, he came to Mecklenburg and the Hanseatic cities as an envoy in 1891. In 1893 he was appointed legation secretary and in 1894 assigned to the embassy in Bern, where he arrived in January 1895 and remained active until February 1899.

In 1899 he came to the embassy in Madrid as 2nd secretary, which he temporarily headed. In December he came to the embassy in Brussels. There he rose to be the first secretary in April 1900. In May 1905 he returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin, where he came back to the Politics department. On January 30, 1906, he was appointed Prussian ambassador in Oldenburg, Braunschweig, Schaumburg-Lippe and Lippe-Detmold. He held this post until February / March 1911. In March he went to Hamburg as the Prussian envoy for Mecklenburg and the Hanseatic cities . He remained in this position until his death.

In addition, Bülow served several times as a representative of the Foreign Office in the “Highest Entourage” and with the Reich Chancellor. From June 1911 he sat on the board of the Hamburg department of the German Colonial Society .

Bülow carried the honorary title Real Privy Councilor combined with the predicate Excellence.

Hans Adolf von Bülow died on July 15, 1915 after a stroke at the age of 57 in Hamburg. The funeral service, led by Ernst Dryander , took place on July 20 in the chapel of the Berlin Trinity Cemetery I in the presence of high-ranking representatives from the Foreign Office and the Hanseatic cities, including Gottlieb von Jagow , Max Predöhl and Karl Sieveking . The burial then took place in a hereditary burial in the cemetery. The lattice grave has been preserved.

family

Bülow was a son of the diplomat Adolf von Bülow and his wife Anna Schmidt. From his marriage to Elisabeth (Else) von Martius on July 1, 1897, the children Adolf (April 29, 1892), Margarethe (November 17, 1893), Otto (April 1, 1897), Elisabeth Charlotte (Liselotte) (26 June 1901).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910 , 19 , 524.
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 9 , 619.
3. ↑ Envoy v. Bülow † . In: Berliner Tageblatt , July 16, 1915, evening edition, p. 3.
4. ↑ Funeral service for the envoy v. Bülow . In: Berliner Tageblatt , July 20, 1915, evening edition, 1st supplement, p. 1.
5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 224.