Max von Ratibor and Corvey

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Maximilian Karl Wilhelm Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey (born February 9, 1856 in Rauden , † January 12, 1924 in Sterz ) was a German diplomat.

Life

He was the fourth son of Victor Herzog von Ratibor and his wife Amalie Princess zu Fürstenberg. He himself married Franziska Grimaud Countess von Orsay. With this he had four children.

He studied at the Georg-August-University of Goettingen law . In 1877 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . After the legal traineeship in 1879, he worked at the Court of Appeal. He was an officer in the 2nd Guards Dragoon Regiment.

In 1880 he entered the diplomatic service. In 1883 he was the third embassy secretary in St. Petersburg . From 1890 Ratibor was the first embassy secretary in Vienna , then from 1894 consul general in Budapest . From 1897 he served as the Prussian envoy in Weimar . In 1902 he became Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Athens . He served as envoy in Belgrade from 1906 and in Lisbon from 1908 . Between 1910 and 1918 he was the German ambassador in Madrid .

In June 1916, the Legation Secretary in the Foreign Office, Rudolf Nadolny , sent Hermann Wuppermann, Arnold, to Madrid to see Prince von Ratibor and Corvey. Glass flasks with snot bacilli and Bacillus anthracis had been delivered in soap bars . Hermann Wuppermann set up snot bacteria cultures in glycerine in Madrid . On June 23, 1916, the Prince of Ratibor reported "Cultures have succeeded" to Berlin. Ambassador's helpers infected certain animals for export with the biological warfare agents. This was to prevent neutral Spain from delivering mules, horses and cattle to the British and French opponents of the war.

During the First World War , the Spanish King Alfonso XIII. his ambassador in Berlin, Luis Polo de Bernabé Pilón , to apply to the government of the German Reich for compensation for the German submarine blockade. Racibórz was instructed to examine the claim for compensation. On October 3, 1918, Wilhelm II appointed Max von Baden as Reich Chancellor. On November 14, 1918, the head of the politics department of the Spanish Foreign Ministry, Emilio Palacios, annulled the exequatur of Max von Ratibor and Corvey.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Maximilian Karl Wilhelm Prinz zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst on thepeerage.com , accessed on September 15, 2016.
  2. ^ Hasso von Etzdorf, Wolfgang von der Groeben , Erik von Knorre: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia (1840-1844) as of February 13, 1972, p. 194.
  3. ^ Protocols of the Prussian State Ministry , Volume 8 / II. P. 616.
  4. ↑ Snot and Anthrax . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1998 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Boletín ENIGMA - nº 9, 3 Febrero 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
  6. ↑ José Luis Martínez Sanz: Mentalidades, diplomacia y revolución: el reconocimiento espanol a la República de Weimar . (PDF) p. 176.

literature

  • Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon, Volume 16. Leipzig 1908, p. 615. Digitized
predecessor Office successor
Christian von Tattenbach German ambassador to Spain
1911–1918 		Leopold von Hoesch
personal data
SURNAME Ratibor and Corvey, Max von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ratibor de Corvey y de Hohenlohe-Schillingsfurst, Max de; Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Prince of Ratibor and Corvey, Maximilian Karl Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1856
PLACE OF BIRTH Rauden
DATE OF DEATH January 12, 1924
Place of death Sterz