Johannes Wars

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Johannes Kriege (full name Johannes (John) Daniel Jakob Kriege ; born July 22, 1859 in Lüdinghausen ; † May 28, 1937 in Berlin-Dahlem ) was a German lawyer , diplomat and politician ( DVP ).

Life and work

Kriege studied law and political science, passed the first state examination in law in 1880 and then joined the Prussian judicial service as a court trainee. After graduating as Dr. jur. In 1881 and the second state examination in law in 1885, he was drafted into the service of the Foreign Office and from 1887 onwards he was acting vice-consul in Amsterdam . From 1889 to 1894 he was consul in Asunción and from 1894 to 1896 in the same position in Sarajevo . In the following years he worked as a real legation councilor and lecturer in the legal department of the Foreign Office. In 1900 he was appointed Privy Legation Councilor.

Wars took part in numerous international conferences - u. a. at the Second Hague Peace Conference - and was a member of the Permanent Court of Justice in The Hague from 1906 until his death . In 1907 he was appointed Real Secret Legation Councilor and in the same year served as Second Plenipotentiary Delegate to the Hague Peace Conference . From September 1911 to November 1918 he was Ministerial Director and Head of the Legal Department of the Foreign Office. In 1916 he was promoted to the Real Secret Council. Before and during the First World War he was also a German delegation member at international conferences, including in 1918 First Plenipotentiary Delegate to the peace negotiations in Brest-Litovsk . After the November Revolution he was given temporary retirement until he finally resigned from the diplomatic service in 1924. During this time he acted as legal advisor to Kaiser Wilhelm II.

Johannes Kriege was the father of the lawyer Walter Kriege , the brother-in-law of the architect Richard Saran , the uncle of the journalist Mary Saran , the nephew of the pastor Otto Funcke and the grandson of the Mayor of Bremen Johann Daniel Meier . He was a relative of the early socialist Hermann Kriege .

MP

Kriege was a member of the Prussian Landtag from 1921 to 1932 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Kulenkampff'sche Familienstiftung (ed.), Stammtafeln of the Kulenkampff family, Bremen: Verlag BC Heye & Co 1959, line John Daniel Meier, JDM, p. 47-50.

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SURNAME Wars, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, diplomat and politician (DVP)
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludinghausen
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1937
Place of death Berlin-Dahlem