Kuno zu Rantzau (diplomat)

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Kuno Otto Heinrich Hermann Karl Graf zu Rantzau , also Cuno (born March 10, 1843 in Wiesbaden , † November 26, 1917 in Dobersdorf ) was a German diplomat and Otto von Bismarck's son-in-law .

Life

Kuno zu Rantzau came from the house of Oppendorf of the Schleswig-Holstein Equites Originarii family of Rantzau . He was a son of Christian Wilhelm Heinrich zu Rantzau (1796-1848) on Oppendorf and grandson of Christian Detlev Karl zu Rantzau . Christian Karl zu Rantzau and Heinrich Adalbert zu Rantzau were his brothers.

Kuno zu Rantzau initially struck the officer career , but retired as a cavalry officer from active military service and devoted himself to the diplomatic career.

Family reunion of the Bismarcks and Rantzaus with guests in Friedrichsruh (around 1893), including Kuno (back row, 3rd from left) and Marie (center of table)

With Gisbert von Bonin , Ernst von Werthern and Konrad Fiedler he became active in the Corps Guestphalia Heidelberg in 1862 . In 1878 he married Countess Marie von Bismarck-Schönhausen (1848–1926), Bismarck's daughter. In the same year he became legation councilor in the Foreign Office and a close collaborator of his father-in-law. From 1888 to 1891 he was the Prussian envoy in Munich , from 1891 to 1895 he was the imperial German envoy in The Hague .

After his retirement in 1895 he was given the character of Real Privy Councilor and lived in Friedrichsruh and on Gut Dobersdorf near Kiel.

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Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 69 , 638.