Werner von Bergen

Friedrich Ludwig Werner von Bergen (born January 20, 1839 in Königsberg , † October 29, 1901 in Wiesbaden ) was an ambassador of the German Empire.

Life

Werner von Bergen was the son of the Prussian government councilor Adolph von Bergen and Auguste Amalie, nee. Wartmann. Bergen studied 1855-1857 jurisprudence , joined the Prussian army one, became a captain promoted, retired at the German war a leg ailment, 1866, taught at the military school in Potsdam and was retired incapacitated. 1868 Von Bergen was drafted into the consular service of the Foreign Office and was initially secretary in Caracas . He married Isabel de Alcalá, who was born in Venezuela . On February 26, 1870, von Bergen was in La Guaira as a debt collection agency in Venezuela and wanted to collect claims from the government of Guillermo Tell Villegas with SMS Niobe and SMS Arcona .

From December 1871 to 1874 Werner von Bergen was consul at Chulalongkorn (Rama V.) King of Siam . In 1872 his son Diego von Bergen was born in Bangkok .

“The not yet 19-year-old King of Siam, who can be described as the country's first gentleman in the best sense of the word, is the bearer of the new ideas, in stark contrast to the traditional politics that finds its expression in the regent. Becoming acquainted with the results of a European administration through his trips to the Dutch and English colonies, the king endeavored to lead his country towards progress. He does not share the Regent's fondness for the English [...] In his endeavors to emancipate himself from the regent's preponderance, who withheld the government from him on the pretext of a lack of age, the support of an agent who opposed English pressures would be welcome. "

- Werner von Bergen on July 26, 1872 to the Foreign Office

From 1874 to 1876, von Bergen was consul general in Saigon . From 1876 to 1883, von Bergen served as Prime Minister for Central America with his official seat in Guatemala City . From 1895 to 1897, von Bergen was Chargé d' affaires for Central America.

In 1876 he concluded friendship, trade, shipping and consular treaties with the Central American Free States of Guatemala and Honduras, thereby promoting the emerging coffee cultivation for export, which destroyed the ejido with a land reform . He had Hans Türckheim and Karl Sapper set up consulates.

Against the Monroe Doctrine , which continued to threaten European trade interests in Central America , von Bergen advised every possible way to improve the atmosphere among the five Central American states and to prepare for economic integration . The imperial envoy from Bergen accused the US government of imperial ambitions in Central America.

In 1877, the Eisenstuck affair with the government of José Vicente Cuadra in Nicaragua escalated from Bergen .

Fonts

• Passive verb of the Thai language. 1875

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rudolf Baierl: 140 Years Peace Fundamental Conditions for the Commencement of German-Thay Amity . ( Memento of October 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 2.7 MB), September 2003
2. ↑ PDF ( Memento of October 31, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ PDF ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Federal Archives R 901-50914 ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF) p. 20
5. ↑ amtspresse.staatsbibliothek-berlin.de
6. ^ Regina Wagner, Cristóbal von Rothkirch: The history of coffee in Guatemala . Villegas Asociados, 2001, ISBN 958-8156-01-7 , pp. 118–119 ( digitized version )
   Regina Wagner, Cristóbal von Rothkirch: Historia del café de Guatemala . Villegas Asociados, 2003, ISBN 958-96982-8-X , pp. 118–119 ( digitized version )
7. ↑ “In order to permanently oppose the US. plans which thretened all European trade interests in Central America, "German Minister Werner von Bergen found it" necesary to improve in every possible way the atmosphere among the five free states and to prepare them for union. " P. 64… German-US relations were shaken when German Minister Werner von Bergen publicly accused the United States of imperial ambitions in Central America. Thomas David Schoonover: The United States in Central America, 1860-1911: Episodes of Social Imperialism and Imperial Rivalry in the World System. Duke University Press, 1991, ISBN 0-8223-1160-7 , p. 169 ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
	Consul General of the German Empire in Caracas 1868–1870	Friedrich von Gülich
	Consul General of the German Empire in Bangkok (Siam) 1871–1874	Hermann Stannius
	Consul General of the German Empire in Vietnam 1874–1876	Hermann Stannius
	Consul General of the German Empire in Guatemala City 1876–1897	Albrecht von Voigts-Rhetz