Max Biermann

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Friedrich Louis Max Biermann (born November 23, 1856 in Berlin ; † January 3, 1929 there ) was a German diplomat and colonial official.

Life

Max Biermann was born in Berlin as the son of the sworn broker Rudolf Biermann and his wife Johanna, née Berg.

He visited here first the French school , then moved to the Joachimsthal gymnasium and lay there in April 1877, the High School from. This was followed by a law degree at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin, which he finished in 1880. During his studies he did military service as a one-year volunteer from April 1, 1877 . He successfully passed the exams for the trainee exam in June 1880. From June he was employed in the Prussian judicial service. In December of the same year he was promoted to secondary lieutenant of the reserve. He passed the assessor exam in May 1885.

On May 11, 1886, Max Biermann was drafted into the Foreign Service . He embarked on a consular career, and on May 12, 1886, he took up service in the Foreign Office in Berlin in Department II (trade policy) . At the beginning of the following year he moved to Department III (Law) .

His first assignment abroad took him to Apia in May 1888 . Here he started his service at the German consulate with the character of a vice consul on June 22, 1888. As early as the summer of the same year, he was appointed Vice Consul with the provisional administration of the German protected area of the Marshall Islands . In addition, in March 1889, he took over the business on Jaluitatoll , which belonged to the Marshall Islands.

A year later, in April, he was appointed Commissioner for the Protected Areas of the Marshall Islands. From May 1891 he was on vacation and in November was given the acting management of the consulate in Apia in the character of a consul . At the end of January 1892 he took over the business there. From the end of March 1895 he was on vacation.

In mid-June 1895 he was assigned temporary employment at the Foreign Office in Berlin to Department IV (Colonies) for 1 month. From here, another assignment took him to the German consulate in Bombay in November 1895. He then took over the official business in mid-January 1896. In between, from August to November 1897, he was appointed acting head of the ministerial residence in Bangkok . He then stayed at the consulate in Bombay until April 1898, from where he moved to the German consulate in Pretoria . Here he took over the business on May 31, 1898 and was brought back to Department IV (Colonies) from late 1901 to February 1902 for temporary employment in Berlin. His assignment in Pretoria ended in the spring of 1904. With his character as Consul General, Biermann took over the consulate in Helsingfors on September 30, 1904. This assignment lasted only one year and the next change was to the German Consulate General in Saint Petersburg . Here he took over the official business on January 1, 1906. Only because of the state of war between Russia and Germany was the consulate closed on August 1, 1914 and Biermann returned to Berlin.

After the start of the war, Max Biermann was temporarily employed in the Foreign Office, Department II (trade policy) on August 11, 1914. In the same year he was formally put into temporary retirement from November, but continued to work in Department II until April 1915. From July he will move to temporary employment in the newly created Department IV (news). But as early as May 1916 he was temporarily sent to Brno to act as acting head of the German consulate . Due to his special regional experience, Biermann was called in from December 1917 to participate in the German-Russian armistice negotiations in Saint Petersburg. This lasted until February 1918. After the successful outcome, he took over the provisional management of the Consulate General in Saint Petersburg in May 1918, which had been re-established. The official business was carried out by him until July 1918, after which he returned to Berlin in Department IV.

His employment in the Foreign Office ended on June 15, 1920. From this point on, Max Biermann was appointed to the Reich Commissioner for Foreign Damage as chairman of the rulings commission. With effect from November 30, 1923, he was given retirement.

literature

• Maria Keipert, Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 , Schoeningh , Paderborn 2000, Volume 1, p. 157f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Germany Reich Office of the Interior: Central -blatt for the German Empire . C. Henmann's Verlag, 1892, p. 637 ( google.de [accessed June 15, 2020]).
2. ↑ nirode K. Barooah: India and the Official Germany, 1886-1914 . Peter Lang, 1977, ISBN 978-3-261-02102-1 , pp. 223 ( google.de [accessed June 15, 2020]).
3. ^ Rudolf A. Mark: In the shadow of the "Great Game": German "world politics" and Russian imperialism in Central Asia 1871-1914 . Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2012, ISBN 978-3-657-77579-8 , p. 428 ( google.de [accessed June 15, 2020]).