Luis Polo de Bernabé Pilón

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Luis Polo de Bernabé Pilón (born October 14, 1854 , † March 18, 1929 in Madrid ) was a Spanish diplomat .

Life

His parents were Carolina Pilón Sterling and José Polo de Bernabé y Mordella , Spanish ambassador to the United States in 1873 . His siblings were José and Carolina.

Luis Polo de Bernabé Pilón entered the diplomatic service in 1874. When his father, José Polo de Bernabé y Mordella, retired in 1875, he was promoted to third degree counselor and was accredited to the Spanish Legation in Washington, DC until 1881 . In 1882 he was promoted to second degree counselor and was employed in the Spanish Foreign Ministry from 1885 . His first post was as Consul General in Cairo, which was part of the Ottoman Empire . He was then the Spanish envoy to Brazil. He later headed the commercial department in the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In March 1898 he was accredited as ambassador in Washington, his father Admiral Polo was able to prevent a war between Spain and the United States with US Secretary of State Hamilton Fish in 1873 during the Virginia crisis . Luis Polo de Bernabé Pilón's tenure in Washington ended with the Spanish-US War

In 1904 he was ambassador to Pope Pius X in Rome. From 1905 to 1906 he was Ambassador to the Court of St James’s from Alfonso XIII. of Spain with Edward VII in London . From 1906, Bernabé Pilón was Alfonso XIII's ambassador. with Wilhelm II in Berlin. During the First World War , Spain declared itself neutral, but served as the basis of the stage service for submarines of the German Reich. After Wilhelm II declared total submarine war on February 1, 1917, the Spanish government protested in a newspaper advertisement. Alfonso XIII instructed Polo to seek compensation for the submarine blockade from the government of the German Reich. On March 5, 1917, Polo reported on a conversation with Wilhelm II in a telegram to Madrid. The telegram was deciphered in room 40 . The ambassador of the German Reich to Alfonso XIII, Max von Ratibor and Corvey in Madrid was instructed to examine the claim for compensation.

On October 3, 1918, Wilhelm II appointed Max von Baden as Reich Chancellor. The head of the politics department of the Spanish Foreign Ministry Emilio Palacios canceled the ambassadorial status of Max von Ratibor and Corvey on November 14, 1918 . On December 9, 1918, Bernabé Pilón was resigning as ambassador in Berlin by Alfonso XIII. accepted.

Bernabé Pilón married Ana María Méndez de Vigo, the sister of Manuel Méndez Vigo y Méndez Vigo, the second husband of Ana Germana Bernaldo de Quirós y Muñoz, first Marquesa de Atrarfe, Grande de España. He was State Secretary in the Ministerio de Estado (Spanish Foreign Ministry). He was Greffier (secretary) and rey de armas of the Order of the Golden Fleece and had collected numerous grand crosses. For his difficult mission in the German Reich, he was appointed senator for life in the 1919–1920 legislative period. He took his oath of office on January 3, 1920.

He died after being hit by a car.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The New York Times , March 10, 1898, SPANISH MINISTER HERE; Senor Louis Polo y Bernabe, de Lome's Successor, Arrives on the Kaiser Wilhelm II. HE WILL STRIVE FOR PEACE Says He Is Glad to be Here Again, and Hopes to Find Matters as Pleasant as He Did During His Former Stay
  2. ^ El Castellano of February 8, 1917, El Gobierno espanol contesta á la nota de Alemania. (PDF; 1.5 MB)
  3. Boletín ENIGMA - nº 9, February 3, 2003, LIBERTAD VIGILADA - Actividades Comint británicas en España (I) ( Memento of the original of December 14, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cripto.es
  4. José Luis Martínez Sanz, Mentalidades, diplomacia y revolución: el reconocimiento espanol a la República de Weimar , p. 176
  5. ABC , 1918/12/09 El Sr Polo de Bernabé dimisión aceptada
  6. ^ Dispatch staff del Senador Vitalicio D. Luis Polo de Bernabé y Pilón.
  7. ^ ABC , March 19, 1929, Noticias Necrologicas
predecessor Office successor
Eduardo Toda Spanish Consul General in Cairo
1886
Manuel Díez-Alegría
Spanish ambassador to Brazil in
1888
Manuel Díez-Alegría
Enrique Dupuy de Lôme Spanish Ambassador to the United States
March 12, 1898-25. April 1898
José Brunetti y Gayoso de los Cabos, duque de Arcos
José Nicolás de Azara Spanish ambassador to Italy
1904–1905
Eduardo García Comin
Fermín Lasala y Collado Spanish Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1905–1906
Wenceslao Ramírez de Villaurrutia
Ángel de Ruata y Sichar Spanish ambassador to Germany
1906–1918
Fernando Espinosa de los Monteros y Bermejillo