Heinz von Boettinger

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Grave of Heinz von Böttinger in the Lutheran cemetery Hochstrasse (Wuppertal)

Heinz Böttinger , from 1907 through the ennoblement of his father Heinz von Böttinger , (born July 13, 1882 as Henry Karl Joseph Böttinger in Würzburg , † August 24, 1968 in Lugano , Switzerland ) was a German diplomat and banker .

Life

Heinz Böttinger was the second son Henry Theodore Böttinger (1848–1920) and his wife Adele, née Bayer (1856–1925), born in Würzburg. Shortly afterwards the family moved to Wuppertal . He attended high school in Elberfeld and laid there in mid-February 1901, the High School from. This was followed by studies in economics , law and chemistry at the universities of Munich and Berlin , which he finished in 1907. The state examination increased from Böttinger end of March 1907, and his doctorate in May of the same year Dr. jur. Then he was in the Prussian judicial service. From October 1907 to the end of 1909 he completed his military service . From February 1910 he switched from the judicial service to the banking sector and became a trainee at Bankhaus E. von der Heydt & Co , founded in 1909 by Eduard von der Heydt , a friend of the family . in London . In 1910 his brother Waldemar first joined the bank as an authorized signatory and later even as a partner.

In mid-December 1910, Heinz von Böttinger was drafted into the Foreign Service and in February 1911 his first assignment abroad took him to the German embassy in Buenos Aires as an attaché . From here he moved to the German Consulate General in New York in the summer of the same year , where he began his service in mid-January 1912. In October he started his service at the German embassy in London . From here he was brought on December 17, 1912 for temporary employment at the Foreign Office in Berlin in Department IA (Politics).

With the beginning of the First World War he was mobilized for military service and was assigned to a regiment in Düsseldorf . Due to the influence of his father, however, from the end of August 1914 he was assigned to the Deputy General Staff in Berlin and not at the front. From here he was assigned to the staff of the Chief of the General Staff of the Field Army in November 1914 . In the army he reached the rank of captain . At the end of 1914 he was appointed Secretary of the Legation . End of April 1916 took place its commanding an intelligence officer for military plenipotentiary to Constantinople Opel . From mid-June 1918 he accompanied a German delegation led by Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg to the Caucasus . After arriving in Tbilisi, he stayed there until October 1918.

At the beginning of 1919 he moved to the Foreign Office in the political department of the office for the peace negotiations. At the end of the year he was briefly transferred to the foreign trade office before he was assigned to country group VIII (Austria) from January 1920. Later he worked in Department IV (Eastern Europe), Poland department. In mid-December 1922 he was released from service in the Reich.

At the beginning of December 1922, Heinz von Böttinger had already become a personally liable partner in the private banking house FW Krause & Co. in Berlin, which went bankrupt under his leadership in the course of the Great Depression in 1930 . In subsequent years, he was also board member of the bank E. von der Heydt & Co . in Berlin and the Central Bank of German Industry .

Heinz von Boettinger was, among other things, a member of the German Men's Club and since 1923 a member of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Promotion of Science . In the year of admission, he and his younger brother Waldemar gave away a piece of land that the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research expanded by 10,530 m². At the beginning of January 1931 he resigned from the Kaiser Wilhelm Society due to the financial crisis.

In 1920 he inherited the Arensdorf manor house together with his brother Waldemar . In 1935, Heinz von Böttinger married Josefine Körfer (1889–1980), who in the eyes of his father was unsuitable and whose relationship had almost led him to disinheritance , until long after his father's death . Heinz von Böttinger died on August 24, 1968 in Lugano.

literature

  • Joseph von Schmaedel: The Adept. A festival for the wedding of Dr. Friedrich Carl Duisberg with Fraulein Johanna Seebohm on September 29, 1888 at Aprath Castle . Performed by Betty Bölling, Henry T. Böttinger, Friedel [actually the brother Friedrich Heinrich] Böttinger and Heinz Böttinger . Self-published in 1888.
  • Robert Volz: Reich manual of the German society. The handbook of personalities in words and pictures. Volume 1, Deutscher Wirtschaftsverlag, Berlin 1930/31 Munich: Saur, undated ISBN 3-598-30664-4 , p. 192.
  • Maria Keipert: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 , Paderborn 2000, Volume 1, p. 206f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Letter from Theodor von Böttinger to Felix Klein dated August 30, 1914 (archived in the UBG Cod. Ms. F. Klein)
  2. ↑ Oliver Stein: Intelligence officer in the Ottoman Empire: Ernst Adolf Mueller's war deployment and captivity in the Middle East 1915-1919 . Ergon Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95650-437-2 , pp. 92 ( google.de [accessed on July 3, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Maria Keipert: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945. Volume 1, Schöningh , Paderborn , 2000, p. 206
  4. ↑ Address book of the directors and supervisory boards , 1929, p. 730.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Biedermann: Structure of the financing of institutes of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Science (1924-1944): Studies on the sources of finance and the relationship between material and personnel expenses in Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes . epubli, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8442-0575-6 , pp. 148 ( google.de [accessed on July 3, 2020]).
  6. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility . CA Starke, 1984, p. 59 ( google.de [accessed on July 4, 2020]).
personal data
SURNAME Boettinger, Heinz von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böttinger, Heinz; Boettinger, Henry Carl Joseph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1968
Place of death Lugano , Switzerland