List of the Hanseatic envoys in the Ottoman Empire
The Hanseatic ambassadors in the Ottoman Empire list the diplomatic representatives of the three free Hanseatic cities of Bremen, Hamburg and Lübeck in the Ottoman Empire during the Tanzimat period in the second half of the 19th century. The heads of the mission were also known as Hanseatic ambassadors at the Sublime Porte , as the Ottoman seat of government in Constantinople was also called the Soprano at that time .
history
The Hanseatic cities of Lübeck , Hamburg and Bremen had after the negotiations started in 1839 between the Hanseatic Minister-Resident in London James Colquhoun and the Ottoman Grand Vizier Mustafa Reşid Pascha with the conclusion of the friendship and trade treaty of May 18, 1841, they had joint diplomatic representatives in Constantinople , initially as Chargé d'affaires were accredited. The first was Colquhoun's son Patrick Colquhoun (1841–43). He was followed in 1841 by the Spanish Prime Minister Antonio López de Córdoba , who took over the representation alongside that of the Kingdom of Spain. In 1847–59, the Hamburg orientalist Andreas David Mordtmann took over the representation of the three sister cities at the Hohen Pforte, together with the Hanseatic Chancellery, which was formed under his predecessor and became the Hanseatic Legation in Constantinople. In Mordtmann's years of service, the Crimean War fell in particular and during his term of office he had to support the commercial interests of the cities by setting up new consulates in the area of the mouth of the Danube and along the Black Sea coast.
From July 1, 1859, the Hanseatic cities were represented by the Prussian ambassador in Constantinople. With the establishment of the empire, the representation was transferred to the German Reich, which set up the German Embassy in Constantinople , which today continues as the Consulate General in Istanbul.
Heads of mission
- 1841: Establishment of diplomatic relations
| Term of office | Surname | Life dates | Remarks | portrait |
| 1841-1843 | James Colquhoun | 1780-1855 | ||
| 1843-1847 | Antonio López de Cordoba | Full-time Spanish ambassador in Constantinople, previously Spanish ambassador in London in 1832/33 |
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| 1847-1859 | Andreas David Mordtmann |
February 11, 1811 - December 30, 1879 |
Orientalist, Hanseatic Chargé d'Affaires, later Consul General of the Hanseatic cities |
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- 1859 dissolution of the mission
See also
literature
- Eva S. Fiebig: Hanseatic Cross and Crescent. The Hanseatic Consulates in the Levant in the 19th Century , Tectum, Marburg 2005; zugl. Phil.Diss. Kiel, ISBN 3-8288-8923-9 .
- Ortwin Pelc : The Hanseatic consulates on the lower Danube in the 19th century. In: Rolf Hammel-Kiesow , Michael Hundt: The memory of the Hanseatic city of Lübeck. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2005, ISBN 3-7950-5555-5 , pp. 557-568.