Mauricio Wollheim

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Mauricio Wollheim (born November 19, 1828 in Germany as Moritz Wollheim; † 1906 ) was a Mexican ambassador .

Life

Moritz Wollheim was, like Caesar Wollheim (1814–1889), a son of Scholem Wollheim and grandson of the wool broker Jacob Salomon Wollheim (1745–1811 in Breslau ).

Mauricio Wollheim became department head in the Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores on June 11, 1883 .

Together with José María Rascón, he was one of the first envoys of the Mexican government to the government in Japan, where he was involved in negotiations on a friendship, trade and shipping treaty and communicated this in a letter dated December 3, 1887.

In 1883 the government of Manuel del Refugio González Flores issued a Ley sobre colonización y deslinde de terrenos baldíos , with which the coffee cultivation should be promoted.

In 1893, Mauricio Wollheim and 22 other shareholders, including Enomoto Takeaki Fujita Toshiro, the first-class delegation secretary at the Japanese consulate in San Francisco, La Sociedad Colonizadora Japón - México . This company sold latifundia for growing coffee in Chiapas. Torazi Kusakado was one of their first contractual partners and came to Tapachula with 35 colonists from Japan on June 5, 1897 . Because of the conditions in the Enomoto colony in Soconusco, some of the colonists fled, while about ten went to Mexico armed to complain to the Japanese consul. Torazi Kusakado subsequently recommended that only free emigrants be sent to Mexico, thereby admitting that his rear inmates were in debt bondage.

On August 24, 1891, Mauricio Wollheim was promoted to Embassy Secretary in Japan. On August 25, 1893, he presented his chargé d'affaires accreditation letter to the government of Japan. On June 14, 1897 he was promoted to ambassador, which he announced to the Japanese government on September 18, 1897. He left Japan on January 28, 1899 and retired on February 10, 1899 . He was accepted into the Order of the Sacred Treasure by the Japanese government .

On November 6, 1900, a friendship and trade treaty between the government of Nicaragua and the government of Mexico was signed by Wollheim.

predecessor Office successor
José María Rascón Mexican Minister Resident in Tokyo
1893–1899
Carlos Américo Lera
Mexican Chargé d'affaires in Beijing
1893–1899
Carlos Américo Lera

Individual evidence

  1. Mexico. Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores, 1903 Boletín oficial , Tomos 17-18
  2. Vera Valdés Lakowsky, Vinculaciones sino-mexicanas : albores y testimonios (1874–1899), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Colegio de Historia, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 1981 p. 279, p. 219
  3. http://www.janm.org/projects/inrp/spanish/time_mexico_sp.htm
  4. http://www.janm.org/projects/inrp/english/time_mexico.htm Historical Timeline of Japanese Mexican
  5. http://www.scjn.gob.mx/SiteCollectionDocuments/PortalSCJN/RecJur/BibliotecaDigitalSCJN/CDAAC-BIB-O-833-11-07-Disco9 TratadosyConvenciones / Tratados% 20y% 20convenciones% 20% 284% 29.pdf