Rudolf von Bülow

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Rudolf von Bülow (born January 1, 1873 in Goslar , † 1955 in Waren (Müritz) ) was a German diplomat .

Life

He came from the Mecklenburg nobility of the von Bülow family . His father was the Prussian major general Albert von Bülow .

Rudolf von Bülow studied law. At the University of Heidelberg he became a member of the Corps Vandalia in 1894 . After completing his studies, he first entered the judicial service, but later switched to the diplomatic service. In 1903 he became Vice Consul in Cape Town. In 1906 he became head of the Consulate General in Lourenco Marques . In 1906 he was appointed consul general in Madrid, in 1913 in Alexandria and in 1914 in Kovno . In 1914 he was taken prisoner by Russia on the Eastern Front. After a prisoner-of-war exchange in 1915, he was again deployed in the Foreign Office . First in 1915 in Department IV (News) and then in 1916 as head of the Arnhem passport office. He then became consul general in Brno, in Sofia in 1918, in Schaffhausen in 1919 and in Rio de Janeiro in 1920. From 1922 to 1933 he was the German envoy in Asunción .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 68 , 614
  2. Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 73 , 614
  3. ^ Hürter, Kröger, Messerschmidt, Scheidemann, Biographical Manual of the Foreign Office. 1871-1945. Volume 1, Schöningh Verlag Paderborn / Vienna 2000
predecessor Office successor
Paul Goetsch German envoy in Paraguay
1922–1933
Fritz Max Weiss