Julius Winckel

Julius Winckel (born November 4, 1857 in Langenholtensen , † October 11, 1941 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and consular officer.

Life

As the son of a forester , Winckel attended the Königliche Gymnasium Salzwedel . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the University of Jena from 1877 . In the first semester he became a chestnut in the Corps Thuringia Jena . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Philipps-Universität Marburg . On October 23, 1880, he passed the trainee exam. In 1881/82 he served as a one-year volunteer . On December 1, 1884, he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . He was court trainee since November 10, 1880 in the Royal Prussian and since October 1, 1882 in the Royal Bavarian judicial service. From May 1, 1885 to August 31, 1889 he was Domanialassessor and legal consultant of the Count of Castell's class rule . Assessor since December 23, 1890 , he changed to the Bavarian administrative service on January 8, 1893.

Russia and Denmark

On December 13, 1892 , he was drafted into the Foreign Service (consular career) and served in Divisions III (law) and II (trade policy). In April 1895 he was sent to the Consulate General in Saint Petersburg . Vice-Consul, characterized since July 1896 , came to the Consulate General in Odessa on January 20, 1897 . In the spring of 1897 he was temporarily employed at the Consulate General in Constantinople and entrusted with the provisional management of the Consulates of Smyrna , Moscow (1898) and Rostov (1900). Appointed consul in 1902 , he was acting head of the Consulate General in Odessa and the Consulate in Kaunas in early 1903 . In June 1903 he returned to Dept. II of the AA as a consultant for shipping matters. Since October 1903 permanent laborer and from January 1904 characterized Legation Councilor , he went to Helsinki on April 7, 1906 as consul . From there, he temporarily headed the Consulate General in Copenhagen for a good three weeks in the summer of 1909 and the consulates in Rotterdam and Kaunas in 1910 .

Albania

On November 14, 1911, he was sent to Trieste as consul for seven years . Characterized as Consul General on August 28, 1913 , he was German representative in the International Control Commission (Albania) from October 15, 1913 to August 6, 1914 , first in Vlora , then in Durrës . Albania's independence was declared in Vlora in 1912 ; until 1914 the city was the seat of the first provisional government of Albania. The commission consisted of the representatives of six major European powers and one Albanian representative. She controlled the new Albanian civil administration and its finances. Winckel was seen as ailing and grouchy and spoke neither Albanian nor Turkish . Bitten by a suspected rabies dog in November 1913 , he left his post and the country for a month. During this time the Foreign Office sent the young Legation Councilor Rudolf Nadolny as a representative. In August 1914 Winckel was given leave of absence from his post in Albania for health reasons. On December 7, 1918, he went into temporary retirement and lived in Munich , then in Lenggries , Stuttgart and finally back in Munich.

See also

• List of German ambassadors in Albania

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 288 f.

Web links

• The constitutions of Albania
• Focus on Eastern Europe

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Matthias Dornfeldt, Enrico Seewald: The German diplomatic missions in Albania from 1913 to 1944 . In: Journal of Balkanology . tape 45 , no. 1 . Harrasowitz Verlag, 2009, ISSN  0044-2356 ( online version of the article ).
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 62/583.