Lü Haihuan

Lü Haihuan, portrait before 1912, founder and chairman of the Red Cross Society in China

Lü Haihuan ( Chinese  呂海寰 ); (* 1843 , Chinese Empire , † 1927 in Tianjin ) was a Chinese diplomat . From 1898 to 1901 he was ambassador to Berlin .

Life

Lü Haihuan came to Berlin in 1898 , where it was known in the meantime that the two Steyler missionaries Richard Henle and Franz Nies had been stabbed to death in Shandong on November 1, 1897 . This had Wilhelm II. Took the opportunity Jiaozhou Bay and Qingdao by Otto von Diederichs to let occupy. In the course of the Yihetuan uprising , Clemens von Ketteler was shot. Lü Haihuan published his telegrams from Berlin in a two-volume work: Keng-tzu hai-wai chi-shih (foreign reports from 1900). In 1898 he was accredited to the Holy See . In 1899 he took part in the first of the Hague Peace Conferences. On October 8, 1903, he signed a trade agreement with Edwin H. Conger . In the same year he proposed in a petition to his government that the provincial governors should submit plans for the further opening of cities in their provinces.

On March 10, 1904, he founded the Chinese Society of the Red Cross and was temporarily its chairman. The company helped in the Russo-Japanese war .

From 1907 to 1909 Lü Haihuan was director of the Tianjin – Pukou Railway and supervised its construction from Tianjin to Pukou . His deputy, Li Deshun, was one of the wealthiest residents of Tsingtau and was dismissed from his post as vice director of the northern section of the Tianjin-Pukou Railway in June 1909 on charges of presumption and corruption. Li Deshun also lost the director's post on the same occasion. Li and his wife, Margarete Krüger, acquired six building lots in Qingdao in early 1910 for $ 95,000 in Shanghai and one building lot in mid-1910 for $ 12,500.

In 1857 the Tianjin Treaty required the establishment of the Zongli Yamen总理 衙门. This office was replaced in its function as Foreign Ministry on July 24, 1901 by the Waiwubu 外务 部. Cixi executed Xu Xilin on July 7, 1907 . Lü Haihuan was Foreign Minister in 1907; he visited Cixi in August, she dreamed of Xu Xilin.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Revue bibliographique de sinologie , volumes 6-7, Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, 1988.
2. ↑ Arthur Eyffinger, The Hague Peace Conference in 1899: The Parliament of Man, the Federation of the World , p 129th
3. ^ Charles Irving Bevans, Treaties and other international agreements of the United States, Volume 6, p. 705.
4. ↑ Klaus Mühlhahn, Rule and Resistance in the "Model Colony" Kiautschou, p. 155.
5. ↑ Frank Becker (Ed.), Rassenmischehen Mischlinge Rassentrichtung: On the politics of race in the German colonial empire, p. 320.
6. ^ Edward JM Rhoads, Manchus and Han : Ethnic Relations and Political Power in Late Qing and Early Republican China 1861–1928, p. 106.

predecessor	Office	successor
Xu Jingcheng	Envoy of the Emperor of China in Berlin from 1898 to 1901	Yin-chang
Xu Feng (* 1837; † 1905)	Head of Waiwubu (Foreign / War Minister) 1906-1909	the office of minister of war was abolished and the function was integrated into the army

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Lü is the family name here, Haihuan is the first name.