Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten

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Hellmuth Eduard Ferdinand Lucius von Stoedten , from 1932 Baron Lucius von Ballhausen (born July 14, 1869 at Gut Klein-Ballhausen , Thuringia ; † November 14, 1934 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Family grave in Ballhausen

His father was Robert Lucius , who was raised to the Prussian nobility as Lucius von Stoedten and Freiherr Lucius von Ballhausen in 1888 as the Prussian Minister of Agriculture , his older brother was Otto Freiherr Lucius von Ballhausen (1867-1932). In 1896 Lucius married Bertha von Stumm-Halberg , a daughter of the industrialist Carl Ferdinand von Stumm-Halberg, who had been raised to the Prussian nobility at the same time as his father .

Lucius von Stoedten was initially an attaché in Paris from 1898 to 1900 and then legation secretary there from 1900 to 1906 . In 1911 he became counselor in St. Petersburg . After that he was diplomatic agent and consul general in Durazzo (Central Albania) in 1914 . From 1915 to 1920 he was the German envoy in Stockholm . Lucius of Stoedten was very instrumental in the preservation of Swedish neutrality in World War I involved. During this war he judged German policy towards Russia after the revolution there differently than the military leadership. Erich Ludendorff even accused the envoy of disloyalty. However, Lucius was covered by the Foreign Office . In addition to other embassies, the Stockholm under Lucius was largely responsible for contacts with the Russian opposition and revolutionaries. As such, he played a role in 1917 in the transport of Lenin through the German sphere of influence via Sweden to Russia. He was then envoy to The Hague between 1921 and 1927 . Lucius von Stoedten visited Kaiser Wilhelm II several times in exile, although he was the ambassador of the republic. The return of Crown Prince Wilhelm to Germany took place with his help.

Lucius von Stoedten was a great patron of the arts . He bought a copy of the marble sculpture " The Kiss " from Auguste Rodin , with whom he was friends . Even Gerhart Hauptmann was among his circle of friends. Von Stoedten owned an important collection of Heinrich Heine's letters . Rainer Maria Rilke dedicated an occasional poem to Lucius von Stoedten in 1922, which prompted Martin Heidegger to ask: "Why poet?"

Lucius, owner of the manor Stödten near Straussfurt , inherited the family fideikommiss Ballhausen after the death of his first-born brother Otto Freiherr Lucius von Ballhausen (1932) , which is why he has been allowed to call himself "Baron Lucius von Ballhausen" since then.

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  1. ↑ See also Lucius (noble family)
  2. ↑ life data and short biography according to information from the German Federal Archives
  3. ↑ See Lucius (Adelsgeschlecht) and Genealogical Handbook of Adels , Adelslexikon Volume VIII, page 79, Volume 113 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1997, ISBN 3-7980-0813-2
  4. ↑ Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten (1869–1934)
  5. ↑ Robert von Lucius: The Erfurt family Lucius. Erfurt Heimatbrief No. 34 (1978), p. 35
  6. ↑ Kurt Riezeler: diaries, essays, documents. Göttingen 1972, p. 93
  7. ↑ Gerd Koenen: The Russia Complex. The Germans and the East 1900–1945 . Munich 2005, p. 81
  8. ↑ Robert von Lucius: The Erfurt family Lucius. Erfurt Heimatbrief No. 37 (1978), p. 35
  9. ^ Hindrek M. Emrich: Texts on Rilke . Göttingen 2008, p. 89
predecessor Office successor
Envoy of the German Reich in Stockholm
1914–1920 		Viktor Prince of Wied
Friedrich Rosen Envoy of the German Reich in The Hague
1921–1927 		Julius von Zech-Burkersroda
personal data
SURNAME Stoedten, Hellmuth Lucius from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stoedten, Hellmuth Eduard Ferdinand Lucius von (full name); Ballhausen, Baron Lucius von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1869
PLACE OF BIRTH Gut Klein-Ballhausen , Thuringia
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1934
Place of death Berlin