Viktor Henckel von Donnersmarck

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Viktor Henckel von Donnersmarck

Count Viktor Henckel von Donnersmarck (born October 25, 1854 in Weimar , † August 26, 1916 in Hirschhügel ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Viktor Henckel von Donnersmarck was the son of Lieutenant General Leo Henckel von Donnersmarck and Emma, ​​née von Parry.

After visiting the Vitzthumschen Gymnasium in Dresden he studied at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Berlin law . In 1876 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After graduating as Dr. jur. he embarked on a diplomatic career. He was the Prussian ambassador at the Brunswick court in Brunswick and at the Schaumburg-Lippischer court in Bückeburg . From 1897 to 1898 he was Minister Resident at the court in Luxembourg . From 1898 to 1906 he was the Prussian envoy to the court in Oldenburg . From 1906 to 1910 he was the German envoy to the Danish court in Copenhagen .

Henckel von Donnersmarck was Rittmeister of the Reserve of the Guard Cuirassier Regiment . In 1903 he married Countess Marie von Bassewitz adH Prebberede , with whom he had two sons and a daughter. Most recently he lived at the family seat of Schloss Hirchhügel, where he died of the consequences of his war suffering.

His brother Count Valentin Henckel von Donnersmarck (1869–1940) was a captain in the Guard Cuirassier Regiment. In June 1910 he was appointed court marshal at the court of Kaiser Wilhelm, succeeding Count von Zedlitz-Trützschler . He was previously court marshal of Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia , then he worked for several years in the Reich Colonial Office, where he was well known as "Adjudant Dernburgs ". He was married to Vera Countess von Kanitz (1875–1962).

Awards

literature

  • Friedrich Karl Devens : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1827-1902. Düsseldorf 1902. p. 186.
  • Gustav Gotthilf Winkel : Biographical corps album of Borussia in Bonn 1821–1928. Aschaffenburg 1928. p. 181.
  • 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. 113, 120 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kösener corps lists 1910, 19 . 500
  2. ^ Genealogical handbook of the nobility, Graefliche Häuser , Volume 18, 1958, p. 8.
  3. ↑ www.geneall.net
  4. ↑ Berliner Tageblatt , No. 310 of June 22, 1910, 1st supplement: A new court marshal of the emperor.

See also

personal data
SURNAME Henckel von Donnersmarck, Viktor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Henckel von Donnersmarck, Viktor Graf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1854
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH August 26, 1916
Place of death Deer hill