Hans von Jacobs

Hans von Jacobs (1888)

Hans von Jacobs (born June 6, 1868 in Potsdam , † February 14 or 15, 1915 in Metz ) was a German lawyer in the consular service.

Life

Hans von Jacobs was the son of the factory owner Friedrich von Jacobs (1830–1898) and his wife Marie, née Freiin Praetorius von Richthofen (1839–1895). His grandfather was the Bremen "sugar baron" Ludwig von Jacobs (1794–1879).

He studied law at the Friedrichs University in Halle . As a member of the Corps Guestphalia Halle , he headed the Kösener Congress in 1891 . On February 22, 1892, he married the American Mary Schirmer . After graduating as Dr. iur. , traineeship training and assessor examination on October 4, 1894, he worked as a lawyer for four years . On June 30, 1898, he was drafted into the Foreign Service (consular career). At the end of 1900 he was transferred to the Consulate Varna and the Consulates General Sofia and Constantinople as Imperial German Consul . From April 1903 to July 1904 as a permanent laborer in Dept. III (Law) of the Foreign Office, Jacobs took over the management of the Consulate General in Cape Town as Legation Counselor , as well as the acting management of the Belgian and Dutch Consulates in Cape Town. In January 1906 he made an inspection trip to the border between South Africa and German South West Africa . Since July 16, 1906, he has been a real councilor and lecturer , and returned to the Foreign Office (Dept. IV, Colonies). After the transfer of the Colonial Department of the Office to the Reich Colonial Office , he served from 1907 to 1911 in Dept. A (Political, general administrative and legal affairs of the protected areas), most recently as Act . Go Legation Council .

After leaving the Foreign Service, Jacobs became General Director and Chairman of the Executive Board of the German Levante Line in 1898 . In 1914 he switched to their supervisory board. He was also a member of the board of directors of the German West Asia Committee (from 1915 the German West Asia Institute). In 1914, Jacobs was called up for military service in the First World War . As Captain of the Reserve in the 1st Guards Regiment, he suffered a serious wound on foot near Metz and died on the night of February 14-15, 1915, of sepsis .

Honors

• Order of Merit of St. Michael IV Class on December 14, 1899
• Red Eagle Order IV Class on January 27, 1903
• Order of the Double Dragon III. class
• Order of Civil Merit (Bulgaria) , Commander's Cross
• Iron Cross

Publications

• Deutsches Kolonialblatt: Official Gazette of the Reich Colonial Office. Volume 23, published 1912.

See also

• Suburbs of the KSCV

Individual evidence

1. ^ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses. 1909. Third year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1908, p. 397.
2. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 98/578
3. ↑ Characterization as walking. Legation Council
4. ^ Mustafa Gencer: Educational Policy, Modernization and Cultural Interaction: German-Turkish Relations (1908-1918). LIT Verlag, Münster 2001, p. 192.