Julius von Griesinger (diplomat)
Julius Adolf Freiherr von Griesinger (born August 25, 1863 in Stuttgart , † 1939 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German diplomat .
Life
Griesinger was the son of the administrative lawyer, head of the civil cabinet of the Kingdom of Württemberg and chairman of the Swabian Schiller Club Julius Albert Griesinger , who was given the untitled title of nobility “von” in 1871 and the title of nobility Freiherr in 1893 , as well as his wife Pauline Autenrieth. He himself entered the foreign service of the German Empire and rose to the position of expeditor and secret legation secretary and in 1908 to the real legation councilor and lecturing councilor in the political department at the Foreign Office .
As the successor to Franz von Reichenau , who in turn became envoy to Sweden , von Griesinger, who was also a member of the Imperial Automobile Club (KAC), became envoy extraordinary and authorized minister in Serbia in 1911 . He stayed in this post until the beginning of World War I in August 1914. After the Kingdom of Serbia occupied the Principality of Albania in October 1913, Austria-Hungary asked the Kingdom of Italy and the German Empire to participate in its protest note . However, the Italian envoy in Belgrade was not given appropriate powers and could not support them. Griesinger had been instructed to only join the Triple Alliance in one step . In view of the Italian refusal, he helplessly had to ask for new instructions at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin and could not support the Austrian demarche . At the end of 1913 , when he asked the Austrian ambassador to Serbia Stephan Ugron, with great caution, the German reserve against the implacable Austrian policy towards Serbia, when he asked him whether Vienna “wanted to adopt a sharper tone towards Serbia in the future because he feared that in this If the German Reich government does not want to and can keep up under all circumstances ”.
About his experiences there he wrote the essay The Critical Days in Serbia , which appeared in 1930 in The War Guilt Question: Berlin Monthly Hefts.
In his first marriage Griesinger was married to Ilona Offermann, in his second marriage from April 1905 to Louise Malwine Karoline Sophie Grübl, a daughter of the Mayor of Vienna Raimund Grübl , who however died on April 24, 1909 at the age of 25.
Fonts (selection)
- The critical days in Serbia. In: The War Guilt Question: Berlin Monthly Issues . September 1930, p. 840.
Web links
- Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbook of Diplomacy 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-11095-684-5 , p. 80.
- Julius von Griesinger in the archive portal
Individual evidence
- ↑ Survey by the Cabinet Chief of the Privy Council Dr. von Griesinger in the hereditary baron class in the German Digital Library (DDB)
- ^ Biographical-genealogical sheets , p. 283
- ^ Hanns Christian Löhr : The founding of Albania: Wilhelm zu Wied and the Balkan diplomacy of the great powers, 1912-1914. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 3-63160-117-4 , p. 133.
- ^ Konrad Canis : The way into the abyss: German foreign policy 1902-1914. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2013, ISBN 3-50677-120-5 , p. 575.
- ^ Harry Hinsley , Keith Wilson (Eds.): Decisions For War, 1914. Routledge Publishing, 2016, ISBN 1-13421-317-4 , footnotes 137, 163, 167.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| 1909–1911: Franz von Reichenau | Ambassador of the German Reich in Belgrade | Vacant |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Griesinger, Julius von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Griesinger, Julius Adolf Freiherr von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1863 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1939 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |