Rudolf Friedrich Le Maistre
Rudolf Friedrich Le Maistre (born February 10, 1835 in Dresden ; † April 1, 1903 there ) was an initially Saxon, then an Imperial German diplomat .
origin
His parents were Johann Friedrich Le Maistre (1790–1874) and his wife Elisabeth Helene Benecke, born von Gröditzberg (* 1810).
Life
Rudolph Le Maistre was a secret councilor. On March 5, 1869, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV appointed the royal Saxon Legation Councilor Rudolph Friedrich Le Maistre as Minister-Resident of the North German Confederation in the governments of the Argentine Confederation and the Republic of Uruguay . Le Maistre submitted his accreditation letter to the government of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in Argentina on March 5, 1869 and to the government of Lorenzo Batlle y Grau in Uruguay on March 22, 1869 .
In 1882, Le Maistre was Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister of William I to King Peter II of Brazil and signed a consular agreement.
Deviating from Chancellor Otto von Bismarck's foreign policy of a saturated German Reich, Le Maistre speculated:
“From southern Brazil, and in particular from the province of Rio Grande do Sul, gradually a German territory, a Brazilian New Germany, which would naturally fall back to Germany in the expected breakup of the Brazilian Empire, could only simply be recruited from the same as an already completed colony "
Le Maistre died in Dresden in 1903 and was buried in the Trinitatisfriedhof .
Honors
- Order of the Red Eagle II class with oak leaves,
- Commander of the Order of Merit of St. Michael ,
- Commander II class of the Frederick Order ,
- Commander 1st class of the Duke of Saxony-Ernestine House Order ,
- Officer of the Belgian Order of Leopold ,
- Russian Order of Saint Anne II Class,
- Grand Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ s: Appointment of Federal Envoy to Foreign Powers. 25 May 1869
- ↑ s: Consular Treaty between the German Empire and Brazil
- ↑ Hans-Ulrich Wehler , Bismarck and the Imperialism, 1967, p. 403 after Horst founder : History of the German colonies. 2004, p. 107 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Todtenschau . In: Dresdner Geschichtsblätter , No. 1, 1904, p. 227.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Le Maistre, Rudolf Friedrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 10, 1835 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dresden |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 1, 1903 |
| Place of death | Dresden |