Robert Everts

Gerhard Robert Everts (born September 12, 1875 in Brussels , † April 30, 1942 in Brussels) was a Dutch-Belgian diplomat .

Everts was a Dutch citizen (his father was the consul general of Holland in Belgium) and was given Belgian nationality in 1898. After his studies, which he completed with a doctorate, Everts entered the Belgian diplomatic service. In 1902 he came to Mexico City as a young diplomat , in 1906 to Bucharest , in 1909 to Vienna and Paris. In 1910 he was sent to Beijing as the Belgian envoy for China . After the First World War , he officiated in Rome from 1919, Beijing in 1920, in 1924 as the Belgian envoy for the German Reich in Berlin and from 1932 as the Belgian ambassador for Spain in Madrid . He was particularly considered a connoisseur of China and South America.

From November 15, 1913, Everts was married to Alexandra Comnène, daughter of Angelia Calvocoressi and Ioannis Michoglou, a Greek merchant. On May 6, 1906, Greece allowed her to use the name of her great-grandfather, who was a Prince of Comnène. On August 8, 1936, at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War , Everts was ambassador in Madrid and went to Saint-Jean-de-Luz . In Madrid was Joseph Berryer d'affaires and in Valencia and Barcelona , Walter Loridan.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Didericus Gijsbertus van Epen: Nederland's Patriciaat , 1910, p. 143.
2. ^ János Plesch / Johann Plesch: János. The Story of a Doctor , 1949, p. 193.
3. ^ Gestalten Rings um Hindenburg, 1929, p. 74.
4. ↑ Marina Casanova, La diplomacia española durante la guerra civil , Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores, 1996 - 331 S, p. 64

predecessor	Office	successor
Georges della Faille de Leverghem	Belgian ambassador in Berlin 1924–1932	André de Kerchove de Denterghem
Jules Greindl	Belgian ambassador in Madrid 1932–8. August 1936	Joseph Berryer