Heinrich von Eckardt

Heinrich von Eckardt (born July 20, 1861 in Riga , † March 3, 1944 in Jena ) was a German-Baltic dragoman (i.e. interpreter) and diplomat .

Life

Heinrich von Eckardt was the son of the Baltic German Julius von Eckardt and an uncle of Felix von Eckardt . On March 10, 1881, he passed the Abitur at the learned school of the Johanneum . From the summer semester of 1881 he studied law and oriental languages (Arabic, Turkish) at the University of Jena . In 1882 he was reciprocated in the Corps Saxonia Jena . As an inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . After the legal traineeship on March 27, 1885, he served as a one-year volunteer in the Prussian Army . At the same time he was employed by the Jena district court and by a lawyer.

Called up for the Foreign Service on June 6, 1886 , he came to the Embassy in Constantinople on July 1, 1886 as a Dragomanat student (until April 6, 1899) . At times he was temporarily employed at the German Consulate General in Constantinople . From August 19 to October 17, 1893 he took over the provisional management of the consulate in Smyrna . On May 25, 1889 he received the title 3rd Dragoman . From March 27, 1893 he was the 3rd dragoman. On June 5, 1897, he passed the consular exam. As secretary of the legation, he began serving at the embassy in Tehran on May 23, 1899 . From July 21st to September 28th, 1900 he was in charge of the 1st Dragoman's business at the embassy in Constantinople. Since January 15, 1901 the embassy in Belgrade , he received on 18 October 1902 the character as Counselor . From March 6, 1906 to September 21, 1907, he was a German delegate to the International Finance Commission in Athens . On February 4, 1908, he came to Havana as Minister Resident and Acting Head of the Consulate . With the rank and title of envoy, he took over the affairs of the Minister- Resident in Cetinje , Montenegro, on December 27, 1910 . On February 14, 1915, he became envoy to Mexico City . Until August 1915 he stayed in Veracruz (Veracruz) and Orizaba . On December 25, 1918 (after the November Revolution ) he was replaced in Mexico. From April 29, 1919 in the Foreign Office , he had to work on Mexico affairs in Dept. IA (Politics). From July 24th to August 29th, 1919, he was Head of Division for Mexico. Afterwards on vacation, he was put into temporary retirement on March 6, 1920.

From October 22, 1924 to March 15, 1925 he was the first delegate of the Foreign Office to the International Opium Conference in Geneva. Also in Geneva, he led the German delegation to the International Arms Trade Conference from April 2, 1925 to July 31, 1925. From September 1, 1925, he lectured on behalf of the Reich Minister for Foreign Affairs. He was retired on October 31, 1926.

See also

• Dragoman
• International financial control in Greece 1898–1978

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 71/457
2. ↑ October 13, 1887 Second Lieutenant d. R., March 22, 1895 Premier-Lieutenant d. R.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Biogram in the Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Office
4. ^ Georg von Hertling , Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld on Köfering and Schönberg : Correspondence between Hertling and Lerchenfeld 1912–1917. Official private correspondence between the Bavarian Prime Minister Georg Graf von Hertling and the Bavarian envoy in Berlin Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld H. Boldt. 1973, p. 823 ( excerpt )

predecessor	Office	successor
1903–1905: Ernst von Heintze-Weißenrode 1905–1908: Joseph von Humbach	Envoy of the German Reich in Cuba 1908–1910	Adolf Pauli (from 1911)
Office newly created	Envoy of the German Reich in Montenegro 1911–1914	- 2006: Thomas Schmitt (diplomat)
Paul von Hintze	Envoy of the German Reich in Mexico 1914–1919	Adolf Maria Maximilian de Garnerin von Montgelas