Hans Arthur von Kemnitz
Hans Arthur von Kemnitz (born August 17, 1870 in Charlottenburg ; † August 1, 1955 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German diplomat and politician (DVP, later DNVP).
Live and act
Von Kemnitz first studied law . Then he hit the officer career. This led him from 1891 to the Canitzers, before he was part of the 2nd Guard Uhlan Regiment in Berlin from 1894 . In 1901 he switched to the diplomatic service. He worked successively in Rome , Constantinople , Beijing and Lisbon before he was promoted to Legation Council from 1908 and posted as a permanent laborer in the Reich Chancellery .
Kemnitz's marriage to Laura Marie Antoinette, Baroness von Rosenberg (born May 5, 1885) in 1909 gave rise to the son Hans-Henning Albert Alfred von Kemnitz (born October 29, 1910). In 1910, von Kemnitz was sent to Madrid as the German ambassador for the Kingdom of Spain , where he remained until 1913. From 1913 he worked in the Foreign Office in Berlin.
From 1914 he took part in the First World War as Rittmeister of the Reserve. From 1916 to 1918 he represented the Foreign Office as envoy to the administration of the Baltic States, which was dominated by the Supreme Army Command , particularly in Mitau , Riga and Courland .
On November 12, 1918, the Foreign Office sent him to Lithuania as the German representative, where he worked until August 1919. He then left the diplomatic service and turned to politics.
As early as 1919 he joined the German People's Party ( DVP ) founded by Gustav Stresemann , for which he was a member of the Berlin Reichstag from 1920. In the Reichstag, Kemnitz, who belonged to the right wing of his party, represented constituency 5 (Frankfurt / Oder). On June 7, 1924 von Kemnitz, for whom the political stance of the DVP was too “left”, switched from the DVP to the German National People's Party ( DNVP ). For this he was a member of parliament until 1928.
During the Nazi era, von Kemnitz was a member of the Berlin board of the German-Austrian working group. In this capacity he sent Adolf Hitler a congratulatory telegram in March 1938 on the occasion of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich.
After the Second World War , Kemnitz saw two options for a new state that “should deserve this name”: Either a unitary state “with extensive decentralization, as it was the Weimar Republic”, or a federal state “with sufficient central power, as it was the German Empire of 1871 ”.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Arthur von Kemnitz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Hans Arthur von Kemnitz in the database of members of the Reichstag
Individual evidence
- ^ Winfried R. Garscha: The German-Austrian working group. Continuity and change. 1984, p. 103.
- ^ The morning of December 19, 1947.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kemnitz, Hans Arthur von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat and politician (DVP, DNVP), MdR |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th August 1870 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Charlottenburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 1955 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |