Friedrich Richard Krauel

Friedrich Richard Krauel (born January 12, 1848 in Lübeck , † December 2, 1918 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German diplomat and historian .

Life

Krauel was the son of a judge. He attended the Katharineum in Lübeck until he graduated from high school at Easter 1867 and then studied law . During his studies in 1868 he became a member of the Alemannia Bonn fraternity . He received his doctorate as Dr. jur. and established himself as a lawyer in Lübeck in 1871. In 1873 he entered the foreign service and initially worked in the consular service in Amoy in China . In 1879 he became Consul General in Sydney .

In 1884 he moved to the Foreign Office in Berlin as a lecturer . With Paul Kayser , Krauel played a key role in the early colonial legislation of the German Empire. In 1885 he campaigned for the acquisition of the Carolines in the Western Pacific, which raised the so-called Carolines question. From April 1, 1890 to June 30, 1890, Krauel headed the colonial policy department of the Foreign Office with the rank of secret legation councilor , from which the Reich Colonial Office later emerged.

In 1890 he became envoy to Buenos Aires . He was then envoy to Rio de Janeiro from 1894 to 1898 . There he also worked for German emigrants to southern Brazil . In 1901 he was appointed to the Imperial Real Secret Council.

From 1904 he was honorary professor at the University of Berlin. He also worked as a publicist .

Publications

• Literature by and about Friedrich Richard Krauel in the catalog of the German National Library
• Count Hertzberg as Minister of Friedrich Wilhelm II. Ernst Siegfried Mittler and Son, Berlin 1899.
• Young Bismarck's Confessions . Mohr, Tübingen and Leipzig 1901.
• Prince Henry of Prussia and the Regency of the United States, 1786. In: The American Historical Review. Volume 17, No. 1, October 1911, pp. 44-51

literature

• Hartwin Spenkuch (arr.): The minutes of the Prussian State Ministry 1817–1934 / 38. Volume 8 / II. Olms-Weidmann, Hildesheim 2003, ISBN 3-487-11827-0 , p. 572 ( Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (Ed.): Acta Borussica . New series. )
• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 3: I-L. Winter, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8253-0865-0 , pp. 161-162.

Notes and individual references

1. ^ Hermann Genzken: The Abitur graduates of the Katharineum in Lübeck (grammar school and secondary school) from Easter 1807 to 1907. Borchers, Lübeck 1907 ( digitized version ), no. 638; Karl Hinckeldeyn was his fellow high school graduate
2. ↑ 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. 22
3. ↑ Krauel's persistence in the Caroline question prompted his colleagues to joke that the islands would have to be called Krauelinen if they were acquired. (Thomas Morlang: Rebellion in the South Seas. Ch. Links Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-604-8 , p. 22.)
4. ↑ When Dr. Friedrich Richard Krauel (1848–1918, chief of this section from 1885 to 1890) succeded by Kusserow , this structure of the "central colonial administration" was not changed, PDF ( Memento of the original from October 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Wolfram von Rotenhan	Envoy of the German Empire in Buenos Aires 1890–1894	Friedrich von Mentzingen
Heinrich Count of Luxburg	Envoy of the German Empire in Rio de Janeiro 1894–1898	Emmerich from Arco-Valley