Paul Goetsch (diplomat)

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Paul Goetsch (born January 22, 1867 in Slawentzitz , Province of Silesia , † April 1, 1932 in Berlin ) was a German consular officer and diplomat.

Life

Goetsch's parents were the homonymous Geh. Sanitary Councilor Paul Goetsch d. Ä. and his wife Johanna geb. Bohtz . Goetsch attended the Königliche Gymnasium Johanneum in Groß-Strehlitz and the Maria-Magdalenen-Gymnasium in Breslau .

After graduating from high school, he studied law and economics at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University and the Philipps University in Marburg . He became active in the Corps Lusatia Breslau (1885) and in the Corps Teutonia Marburg (1886). Since December 17, 1887 trainee lawyer , he joined the Prussian Army on October 1, 1889 as a one-year volunteer . As a reserve officer he was promoted to second lieutenant (1891), first lieutenant (1904) and captain (1911). On June 16, 1894, he passed the assessor examination .

On August 9, 1895 , he was drafted into the Foreign Service (consular career) and was assigned to Department II (Commercial Policy). From August 2, 1898, he was entrusted with the provisional management of the consulate in Algiers . From September 19, 1899 , he was deputy consul, from January 31, 1900 to May 23, 1901, at the Consulate General in Buenos Aires , which he temporarily headed from April to November 1900. From June 1, 1901 to May 20, 1902 he was acting head of the consulate in Asunción . On July 5, 1902, he returned to his Berlin AA department. As permanent laborer he received the on January 27th 1903 character Legationsrat . A month later he was appointed to the mixed commission to determine the German complaints against Venezuela (April 15 to October 10, 1903). After nine months in his AA department, he took over the management of the traffic, emigration and exhibition department in October 1904. He became the real Legation Council and Lecturing Council (1905), go to. Legation Council (1909) and to the Act. Go Appointed Legation Councilor (1917).

Since April 29, 1920, envoy in Montevideo , he was responsible for the re-establishment of the ministerial residence and its conversion into an embassy - also for Paraguay . The credentials were presented in Montevideo on June 17th and in Asunción on August 5th, 1920. Goetsch was put into temporary retirement on May 25, 1921 and final retirement on January 29, 1932 when he reached the age limit .

He was married on March 17, 1910 to Margarete Müller, the daughter of a Prussian officer. The daughter Ingeborg was born on Christmas Day of the same year. Rudolf Goetsch was a brother.

Paul Goetsch died, only two months after his final retirement, on April 1, 1932 at the age of 65 in Berlin. He was buried in the Heerstraße cemetery in today's Berlin-Westend district . The grave has not been preserved.

Fonts

  • The Reich Law on Emigration of April 9th, 1897 together with the implementing regulations, using official sources . Taschen-Gesetzsammlung No. 37, Berlin 1898, 2nd increased edition Berlin 1907.
  • Emigration , in: Ludwig Elster (ed.): Dictionary of economics . Jena 1911, pp. 292-321.

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, p. 63f.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paul Goetsch the Elder Ä. - Kösener corps lists 1960, 81/194.
  2. ↑ a b c d Foreign Office, Political Archive (Handbook, 3rd vol.)
  3. ↑ Paul Goetsch the Elder J. - Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 81/264; 102/670.
  4. ↑ a b Blue Book of the Corps Teutonia in Marburg 1825 to 2000 . Marburg 2000.
  5. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin tombs . Haude and Spener, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-7759-0476-X . P. 195.
personal data
SURNAME Goetsch, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, most recently envoy in Montevideo
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1867
PLACE OF BIRTH Slawentzitz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1932
Place of death Berlin