Oscar Wilhelm Stübel

Oskar Wilhelm Stübel (born August 11, 1846 in Dresden ; † June 15, 1921 ) was a German diplomat and director of the colonial department of the Foreign Office from 1900 to 1905 .

Life

Stübel first studied mathematics and then law. He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. In 1873 he was the private secretary of King John of Saxony until his death . He was then employed at the Saxon Evangelical Lutheran State Consistory.

In 1876 he entered the service of the Saxon Foreign Ministry. From there he moved to the Foreign Office of the Reich in 1879. In 1882 he was consul in St. Louis and Cincinnati in the rank of legation councilor , came to Samoa that same year and became consul general there in 1884 . From 1887 he was consul general in Copenhagen . He was then back in Samoa in 1889 and 1890 and Consul General in Shanghai between 1891 and 1899 . Thereafter, Stübel was envoy extraordinary in Santiago de Chile .

Between 1900 and the end of 1905 he was director of the colonial policy department in the Foreign Office. He succeeded the failed Gerhard von Buchka . On the one hand, attempts to reform fall during his term of office. On the other hand, the Herero and Nama uprising in South West Africa and the colonial scandal of 1905 began in his time . In view of public criticism, he was replaced by Ernst II zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg .

After his resignation in 1906 he was for some time envoy extraordinary and plenipotentiary minister in Oslo .

literature

• Marc Grohmann: Exotic Constitution. The competences of the Reichstag for the German colonies in legislation and constitutional law of the Empire (1884–1914). Tübingen 2001, p. 155.
• Meyer's Large Conversation Lexicon. Volume 19, Leipzig 1909, p. 138. Digitized