Ottmar von Mohl

Ottmar von Mohl

Ottmar von Mohl (born January 17, 1846 in Tübingen , † March 23, 1922 at Arnshaugk Castle near Neustadt an der Orla ) was a German diplomat and government advisor in Japan .

Life

Mohl was a son of the political scientist Robert von Mohl . His siblings included Anna von Helmholtz (1834–1899), married to the physicist Hermann von Helmholtz , and the Prussian Major General Erwin von Mohl (1839–1895).

Mohl studied law in Tübingen , passed the Baden legal traineeship and was awarded a doctorate in Heidelberg in 1868. jur. PhD . In 1873 he became cabinet secretary to the Empress Augusta .

His diplomatic career took him to Cincinnati as consul in 1879 and to Saint Petersburg in 1885 . Between 1887 and 1889 he and his wife Wanda von Mohl, nee Countess von der Groeben , advisor to the Imperial Japanese House and Court Ministry in Tokyo . They introduced the European court ceremony in Japan .

Arnshaugk Castle , Thuringia

From 1897 to 1917 he was a German delegate to the Egyptian National Debt Commission in Cairo , but was suspended in 1914 because of the Egyptian declaration of war.

From 1889 he owned Arnshaugk Castle , where he died in 1922. His son was the lawyer Waldemar von Mohl .

Works

• Walks through Spain . Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot 1878
• At the Japanese court . Berlin: Reimer 1904 ( digitized in the Berlin State Library )
• Memories: 50 years of service in the Reich . 2 volumes. Leipzig: List 1920/22 (2nd volume: Egypt)

literature

• Stadtarchiv Neustadt "What the Neustädter Kreisbote reported" 100 years ago in our city: Wanda von Mohl, b. Countess von Gröben died in Baden-Baden and was buried in Arnshaugk. Mean v. April 15, 2010.
• Neustädter Kreisbote, Volume 29, No. 24/2018 from 1. Dec. 2018, p. 18 ("What the Neustädter Kreisbote reported" - 100 years ago in our city)

Web links

• Literature by and about Ottmar von Mohl in the catalog of the German National Library
• At the Japanese court (PDF, 640 kB)