Julius von Waldthausen

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Julius von Waldthausen

Julius Waldthausen , from 1886 von Waldthausen , from 1918 Freiherr von Waldthausen (born June 30, 1858 in Essen , † August 24, 1935 in Egedesminde , Greenland ) was a German diplomat .

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Julius Waldthausen was born in Essen in 1858 as a scion of the patrician family Waldthausen , from 1886 he was called von Waldthausen, shortly before the collapse of the empire he was accepted into the baron class on May 22, 1918. Julius Waldthausen received a classical humanistic school education at the Burggymnasium in Essen . After studying law at the University of Göttingen , which he obtained with a doctorate to become a Dr. jur. graduated, he went to the diplomatic service of the German Empire in the 1880s, where he made it up to the privy councilor and envoy . According to a biographical sketch of his son from 1935, von Waldthausen traveled to all continents during his lifetime, as well as all the states that existed at the time.

Von Waldthausen worked as a diplomat in Madrid , Morocco and Saint Petersburg , then successively as Chargé d'affaires at the Embassy to the Holy See , Counselor in Petersburg, Chargé d'Affaires in Tokyo and Consul General in Calcutta . From there he undertook trips to the South Seas, Australia , Africa and America and in 1902 was ambassador to Buenos Aires . As an envoy for the La Plata states, he traveled to South America and, according to his son, “promoted Germanness”.

Later von Waldthausen was envoy in Copenhagen (at least until June 1912) and Bucharest (from October 1912 at the latest) before he retired in 1914, which he spent in his castle in Bassenheim near Koblenz . On June 30, 1928, on the occasion of his 70th birthday, he established the Freiherr von Waldthausen Foundation , the purpose of which is to use the interest on the capital of initially 20,000 Reichsmarks to fund poor, sick or old people or families of the community with many children or who are in need through no fault of their own To grant Bassenheim support. In addition, he continued to go on numerous trips, during which he often performed semi-official to fully official tasks. He repeatedly visited Scandinavia , Central and Southern Europe and North Africa. From 1916 to 1921 he was a member of the Senate of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society .

In 1930 he represented the German Empire as an extraordinary ambassador at the coronation of the Emperor of Abyssinia . In 1932 he was sent on a special mission by Reich President Paul von Hindenburg to Japan , from where he visited Indochina , Australia and America.

In August 1935, Baron Julius von Waldthausen died unexpectedly while on a trip to Greenland.

The city of Essen is keeping his memory in the Julius von Waldthausen Foundation, set up to promote medical professions.

family

Waldthausen's marriage to Elinor Boecking resulted in his son Helmuth, born in Copenhagen in June 1912, he studied at Magdalen College Oxford (UK) and died in Owrutsch, Ukraine (October 14, 1943) during World War II .

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945, Volume 5 (TZ, supplements). (published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service; Volume 5 by Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger) Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 164 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c life data according to: Communications of the German Dendrological Society No. 45, 1935, p. Xvi.
  2. ^ Helmuth von Waldthausen: The present position of the President of the United States, 1937, p. 110.
personal data
SURNAME Waldthausen, Julius von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waldthausen, Julius Freiherr von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 30, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH August 24, 1935
Place of death Egedesminde , Greenland