Ludwig Raschdau

Ludwig Alfred Raschdau (born September 29, 1849 in Radoschau , † August 19, 1943 in Berlin ) was a German diplomat , lawyer , Prussian envoy and president of the German-Asian Society .

Life

The middle-class Raschdau studied law and oriental languages ​​in Wroclaw , Heidelberg and Paris and went to the interpreting service of the diplomatic service in Prussia to earn money . He began in Constantinople in 1870 , but then went on to study in Strasbourg up to the state examination in law, completed his legal clerkship in Alsace and returned to Constantinople as a diplomat in the foreign service in 1876. There he reported on the Balkan refugees who had been expelled from their homeland en masse and arrived in the city. From 1879 he was briefly consul in Smyrna , until 1882 Vice Consul for Egypt in Alexandria . His path took him to New York City and in 1884 to Havana . In America he gained insight into the economic structures of the continent. From 1886 he was an employee of Bismarck in Berlin , first in the trade policy department, then in the political department lecturing council. In the early 1890s he was one of the foreign policy advisors in the Foreign Office . In 1894 he was deported as envoy to the Weimar court and the other Thuringian courts because he had fallen out with the "gray eminence" in the ministry of Friedrich von Holstein . So he had a lot to do with Duke Georg II (Sachsen-Meiningen) . Then he was to become envoy to Portugal in 1897 , which would have placed him under Holstein's position. He then took his leave as ambassador zD, in 1915 he was finally retired.

From 1908 to 1923 Raschdau was a political employee of the Norddeutsche or Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . In 1916 he took over the chairmanship of the exclusive German-Asian Society from the late General Colmar von der Goltz . In 1923, the Central Office for Research into the Causes of War founded a support association to maintain international contacts, of which Raschdau was president until 1929.

Raschdau had been married to the wealthy Baroness Christine von Magnus (1842-1936), daughter of the Berlin chemist Heinrich Gustav Magnus , previously married to her cousin and banker Victor von Magnus .

Fonts

• Under Bismarck and Caprivi. Memories of a German diplomat from the years 1885–1894 , Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1939
• In Weimar as the Prussian envoy 1894–1897. A book of memories of German royal courts , Mittler & Sohn, Berlin 1939
• The way into the world crisis. Considerations by a German diplomat from the years 1912–1919 , ed. v. Arthur Dix , 1934
• How I became a diplomat. Told from life , Berlin 1938
• A sinking empire. Experiences of a German diplomat in the Orient 1877–1879; with a sketch map of Constantinople and the surrounding area , Berlin 1934
• The acts of violence in the Balkan Wars , Berlin 1913

As editor

• Moritz Busch : Prince Bismarck as head of the political department. From the written estate of Undersecretary of State Dr. Bush . Paetel, Berlin 1911
• Wilhelm Bock-Posen a. a .: The German Ostmark . with a preface by Raschdau, Deutscher Ostmarkenverein , Lissa i. P. 1913
• Otto von Bismarck : The political reports from Petersburg and Paris (1859-1862) . 2 vols., Hobbing, Berlin 1920

literature

• Lamar Cecil: The German Diplomatic Service, 1871-1914 , Princeton 1976
• Gerhard Webersinn: Ludwig Raschdau. A German diplomat way from Silesia , In: JbUnivBreslau 19, 1978, pp. 121–157
• Maria Keipert / Peter Grupp: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service, 1871–1945 , Vol. 3, Schöningh 2000
• Martina Kessel : Boredom. On dealing with time and feelings in Germany from the late 18th century to the early 20th century , Wallstein, Göttingen 2001 ISBN 3-89244-382-3
• DBE , 2nd edition 2011, vol. 8, p. 184
• Maren Goltz u. a. (Ed.): Duke Georg II of Saxony-Meiningen (1826–1914). Culture as assertion? Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2015, ISBN 978-3412501518

Single receipts

1. ^ Marie-Janine Calic : Southeast Europe: World History of a Region , Beck, Munich, 2016