Ulrich Graf von Schwerin

This article deals with the diplomat Ulrich Graf von Schwerin. For other people see Ulrich von Schwerin (disambiguation) .

Ulrich Graf von Schwerin (born June 8, 1864 in Göhren , Mecklenburg-Strelitz ; died January 4, 1930 in Dresden ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Count Ulrich von Schwerin was the son of Chamberlain and Court Marshal Count Wilhelm von Schwerin and Luise Sartorius von Schwanenfeld. He married Freda von Bethmann-Hollweg in 1895. Her six children belonged to Ulrich Wilhelm Graf Schwerin von Schwanenfeld that the murdered resistance fighters of July 20, 1944 belongs.

Von Schwerin attended the Carolinum grammar school in Neustrelitz and the Ilfeld convent school, and from 1884 studied law in Strasbourg, Leipzig and Berlin. In 1884/85 he was a one-year volunteer and was subsequently promoted to Rittmeister of the Reserve in 1903. After the legal traineeship in 1887, he worked in the Prussian judicial service. Von Schwerin was appointed to the Foreign Service in 1893 and went through various stations.

In 1906 he became envoy in Guatemala and in 1909 envoy in Luxembourg . In January 1914 he became the Prussian envoy in Dresden and thus also envoy for Anhalt, Saxony-Altenburg and Reuss. He was retired in June 1919 during the Weimar Republic .

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 4: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: S Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 , p. 229f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hugo Hahn : Fighters against their will. Memories from the church struggle 1933–1945. Edited and edited by Georg Prater. Brunnquell, Metzingen 1969, p. 259 ( Google books ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Franz von Reichenau	Envoy of the German Empire in Guatemala City 1907–1909	Hans Philipp Leopold Freiherr von und zu Bodman
Gottlieb von Jagow	Envoy of the German Empire in Luxembourg 1909–1914	Envoy Wilhelm von Buch