Hilmar von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen

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Hilmar von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen as envoy in Bucharest

Hilmar Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (born January 31, 1867 in Hanover , † November 19, 1939 in Ramos Mejia, Argentina ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Hilmar was a son of the vice- master stable master Julius von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen (1827-1882) and his wife Mathilde, born von Salviati (1833-1892), widowed Rocheid of Inverleith, daughter of the diplomat Peter Heinrich August von Salviati. The upbringing of the family in his parents' home was based on Evangelical Lutheran values. Hilmar's schooling took place in the last few years at the high school in Bückeburg, which he graduated from high school at Easter 1886. He then began to study law at the universities in Geneva, Leipzig and Berlin. After the legal traineeship on June 1, 1889, he took up a position in the Prussian judicial service. In the meantime he obtained his doctorate on January 8, 1890. jur. and from 1891 attended courses for Russian and Turkish at the seminar for oriental languages ​​in Berlin. He passed the assessor exam on January 20, 1894 and was initially appointed as a court assessor.

In the Foreign Office

In the same year Hilmar Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen was summoned to the Foreign Office in June 1894 for a diplomatic career. He began his service on July 13, 1894 in Abbot II (commercial policy). Just one year later, in May, he was appointed as legation secretary and from May 24th he was deployed to the German embassy in Tangier . He replaced the incumbent envoy Christian von Tattenbach (1846-1910) and was chargé d' affaires from August 25, 1895. In May 1896, Bussche-Haddenhausen was appointed Legation Councilor and in November he was recalled from Tangier. From here he was already organizing preparations for the Argentina . He arrived there at the beginning of 1897 and on February 1 took over a position at the German embassy in Buenos Aires. Here Friedrich von Mentzingen (1858-1955) was employed as chargé d'affaires. In the following year, von dem Bussche-Haddenhausendann took over the position of business agent himself on July 1, 1898. A year later his service in Argentina ended and he made travel arrangements for his next assignment in Egypt . He took up service at the German embassy in Cairo on February 26, 1900. At that time Maximilian von Loehr (1861-1945) was charge of the German embassy in Egypt . He also stayed in Cairo for only two years, was given the status of legation counselor in October 1902 and transferred to the German embassy in London on October 30th . Here he began his service on December 15, 1902 as the embassy’s second secretary. The German ambassador in London at this time was Paul Wolff von Metternich (1853-1934). But here too his assignment ended after a relatively short stay on March 1, 1903. From London, he moved to the embassy in Washington . He started his service here on July 2, 1903, as the first secretary of the embassy. His immediate superior was the German ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg (1852-1908). In the following year he was counselor. In May 1906, von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen's period of employment in the USA ended and he started his work on July 16 at the Foreign Office in Berlin in the Department of IA (Politics). During this time he worked primarily as a department head for the affairs of England. In March of the following year he was appointed Real Legation Councilor with the title of Lecturing Council . Shortly before his return to Argentina, he became a secret councilor on May 17, 1909. In early 1910 he returned to Buenos Aires as envoy. Here he was also responsible for the tasks in Paraguay. His predecessor in Argentina was Julius von Waldthausen (1858-1935). The credentials were handed over on April 6, 1910. After 4 years, this mission also ended shortly before the outbreak of the First World War.

Already in the middle of the war Hilmar Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen took over the German legation in Bucharest as acting head on September 18, 1914. Due to the war, this assignment took place as envoy on an extraordinary mission. Here, too, he succeeded Julius von Waldthausen in office, who was retiring from Bucharest. In December 1915, von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen was appointed envoy but had to return to Germany at short notice in the summer of 1916 due to the unexpected break in diplomatic relations with Romania. When he arrived here, he was put into temporary retirement in September, but came back to work in the Foreign Office in Berlin in November 1916. His area of ​​responsibility as 2nd Undersecretary of State included Departments IA (Politics), Department II (Commercial Policy), Department III (Law), Department IV (News) and the Central Office for Foreign Service, which was re-incorporated into Department IV in December 1917. As of January 27, 1918, he was given the character of a Really Secret Council with the predicate "Excellence". As a result of the collapse of the German Empire and the dissolution of state institutions, his assignment at the Foreign Office in Berlin ended on January 1, 1919.

The years after 1919

In the first years of the Weimar Republic, Hilmar Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen withdrew from the public. From 1928 he held the office of chairman of the Association for Germanness Abroad until 1931. He retired on February 10, 1932. With the purchase of the Mecklenburg estate Katelbogen in 1936, he became a land and estate owner in northern Germany.

family

On August 15, 1899, Hilmar Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen married the Argentine María Eleonore Martínez de Hoz (1875–1957), the daughter of the large landowner ( Estanciero ) Narciso Martínez de Hoz, from one of the richest families in Argentina. The marriage resulted in 5 children, the daughter Mathilde born on May 24, 1900, the son Carl born on November 28, 1901, the second son Kurt born on January 22, 1905, the second daughter Else born on May 19, 1914 and the third son Hans Ernst born on October 24, 1916.

Hilmar Freiherr von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen died on November 19, 1939 in Ramos Meija, Argentina.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gothaisches Genealogisches Taschenbuch der Freiherrlichen Häuser. 1892. Forty-second year, Justus Perthes, Gotha 1891, p. 117 f.
  2. ↑ Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service 1871-1945, Ed. Foreign Office, Schöningh Verlag Volume 1, 2014, pp. 358f.
  3. ↑ Biographical data on Hilmar Freiherr von dem Bussche Haddenhausen, archive of the Reich Chancellery, in: www.bundesarchiv.de/aktenreichskanzlei1919-1933/0000/adr/adrag/kap1_2/para2_383.html
  4. ↑ Hernan Barbero Sarzabal, Sergio Castiglione: Estancias argentinas. Kliczkowski-Asppan, Madrid 2000, ISBN 987-97781-9-7 , p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Bussche-Haddenhausen, Hilmar von dem
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bussche-Haddenhausen, Hilmar William Georg Karl Ernst Freiherr von dem (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH November 19, 1939
Place of death Ramos Mejia, Argentina