Richard von Schmidthals

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Veit Richard von Schmidthals (born September 19, 1829 , † March 30, 1888 in Lisbon ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Richard von Schmidthals was born as the son of Rittmeister Louis von Schmidthals and Franziska. born of restlessness. He studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . In 1851 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . As a government trainee he entered the diplomatic service of Prussia. He was legation secretary at the embassies in Munich, Dresden, Turin, Athens, Stockholm, London, Madrid and The Hague. In 1872 he became a German Legation Councilor . As such, he signed on May 6, 1882, as Chargé d'affaires in The Hague, the International Treaty, concerning the police regulation of fishing in the North Sea outside the coastal waters .

From 1882 to 1888 he was the envoy of the German Empire at the Portuguese court in Lisbon. On December 30, 1886, he signed the declaration concerning the mutual borders in South Africa between Portugal and Germany. Von Schmidthals was married to Henriette geb. Baroness von Bentinck.

Awards

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902 . Düsseldorf, 1902, p. 136
  • GG Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928 . Aschaffenburg 1928, p. 128

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 , 300
  2. ↑ International treaty concerning the police regulation of fishing in the North Sea outside the coastal waters on de.wikisource.org
  3. ↑ 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. 117 .
  4. ↑ The State Archives, Collection of Official Acts on the History of the Present , Volume 50, 1890, pp. 263 f., No. 9841

See also

personal data
SURNAME Schmidthals, Richard von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidthals, Veit Richard von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1829
DATE OF DEATH March 30, 1888
Place of death Lisbon