Otto von Bülow (diplomat)

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Otto v. Bülow

Hans Otto Theodor von Bülow (born December 28, 1827 in Frankfurt am Main , † November 22, 1901 in Rome ) was a German diplomat.

origin

Albert came from the Mecklenburg primeval noble family von Bülow . He was the eldest son of the Prussian Legation Councilor Friedrich Karl von Bülow (1789-1853) and his second wife Pauline, née von Carlowitz . His brother Ernst Friedrich Albert (born August 15, 1829 - † May 9, 1892) became a Prussian major general, the cavalry general Karl Adolf Leopold (born January 11, 1837 - † October 12, 1907) was also his brother.

Life

Otto von Bülow studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and the Friedrichs-Universität Halle . He became active in the Corps Neoborussia Berlin in 1844/45, in the Corps Marchia Halle in 1849 and in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg in 1850 . After completing his studies, he was drafted into Prussia's diplomatic service . From 1881 to 1882 he was the Prussian envoy at the Württemberg court in Stuttgart. Since 1882 in the diplomatic service of the German Empire , he was envoy in Bern from 1882 and from 1892 to 1898 envoy to the Holy See . His grave is in the Protestant cemetery in Rome.

family

He married Marie Meyer on August 3, 1858 in Berlin (* November 27, 1828, † December 24, 1861). The couple had a son:

After the death of his first wife, he married on October 4, 1865 Martha Florowna von Doliva-Dombrowski (January 2, 1830 - February 20, 1891) widow of Eugen von Schele († August 19, 1861). The couple had a daughter:

  • Marie Pauline Viktoria (born June 30, 1866) ⚭ 1898 Rudolf von Scala . kuk Hofrat, professor at the University of Graz

Awards

Bülow's grave in Rome

See also

literature

  • Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer . Walter de Gruyter , Berlin 2001, p. 82 .

Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of aristocratic houses: at the same time the nobility register of the German aristocratic association. Part A, 1919, 180

Web links

Commons : Otto von Bülow (Diplomat)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 6/54
  2. Kösener corps lists 1910, 99/188
  3. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 71/398
  4. ^ Obituary, in: Wochenblatt der Johanniter-Ordens-Balley-Brandenburg 42 (1901), p. 289