Walther G. Wever

Walther G. Wever (born June 24, 1859 in Berlin , † October 17, 1922 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Walther Wever was the youngest of six sons of the Prussian attorney general Carl Georg Wever and his wife Catharina born. Tavenraat.

Wever graduated from high school in Freienwalde on the Oder in 1879 and then studied law and political science in Berlin and Heidelberg . After his legal traineeship in Berlin in December 1882 , he received his doctorate in February 1883. iur. His assessor exam followed in June 1887 . In July 1888 he was transferred to the Paris embassy as an attaché for the special use of Bismarck .

Career in the diplomatic service

In 1890 he became vice consul in Romania , in 1895 consul in Rio de Janeiro and finally in 1900 consul general in Chicago . There he was particularly committed to the German-American exchange by initiating an exchange of professors between the local university and German universities and by founding a German theater. He then became Consul General in Cape Town , Minister-Resident in Haiti and in 1910 Consul General in Naples . During the First World War he organized the repatriation of German citizens to Germany.

After the war he was in charge of political censorship in Innsbruck, Geneva and Basel, then was transferred to the newly opened consulate in Brno and in 1919 as a secret legation councilor in Prague . In September 1920 he headed diplomatic affairs in Riga , Latvia, as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary.

In 1921 he returned to Germany to be transferred to the Reich administration by the diplomatic service. From then on he assumed the chairmanship of the Reich Commissioner for Foreign Compensation.

family

Wever married Annemarie von Harbou in December 1888 in Itzehoe , daughter of the district administrator Ernst Christian von Harbou and his wife Ulrike geb. of roses. The couple had four children, Anne-Marie Durand-Wever , Walther Wever, Catharina Wever and Ernst Wever.

Awards

• 1909: LLD ( Honorary Doctorate ) from the University of Chicago
• Cross of Honor II. Class of the Red Cross
• Prussian Cross of Merit for War Aid
• Red Cross Medal III. class
• Iron Cross 2nd class on a white and black ribbon
• Red Cross Medal of the Principality of Lippe

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 261 f.
• Walther Wever: History of the Wever family. Berlin 1898.
• Eberhard Winkhaus: We come from the family of farmers and blacksmiths. Genealogy of a southern clan group and the industrial pioneers belonging to it. Starke, Görlitz 1932.
• Walther Wever: Family Chronicle. Volume 1. 4th edition, Barsinghausen 2007.

Web links

• Wever-online.de