William Goehring

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William Göhring (born May 8, 1843 in Leipzig ; † November 7, 1926 there ) was a German consular officer.

Life

Göhring's father, Alfred Göhring, was a businessman and electoral consul for Spain and Portugal. The mother was Anna Göhring geb. Peters.

Göhring attended the Thomas School in Leipzig and the Grimma Abbey School . After graduating from high school in March 1862, he studied law at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Leipzig . In 1862 he became active in the Corps Misnia Leipzig . He passed the first legal exam on March 3, 1866 and was awarded a Dr. iur. PhD. After training with a lawyer in Leipzig, he made a study trip to Switzerland and Italy in 1867/68.

On July 1, 1868, he joined the judicial service of the Kingdom of Saxony . During the Franco-Prussian War he was a laborer in the German civil administration, from January to June 1871 in Versailles , then in Rouen and finally in Soisy-sous-Montmorency . After he had passed the assessor examination on April 16, 1872, he was drafted into the Foreign Service (consular career) on June 21, 1872. In March 1873 he came to Constantinople as Vice Consul . From April 11, 1874, he was in Department II (commercial, legal and consular matters) of the Foreign Office . Since January 24, 1875 permanent laborer, he became lecturer on October 16, 1878 . On April 28, 1879, he married Marie Platzmann . The daughters Annamarie (1880) and Elisabeth emerged from the marriage.

From April 1883 to March 31, 1895 he was Consul General in Rotterdam . The consulate general was relocated to Amsterdam on April 1, 1887 . 1890 Participation in the International Anti-Slavery Conference in Brussels as second authorized representative. He also took part in the conference in Brussels on the customs tariff to be introduced in the Congo Basin as a technical delegate. On March 19, 1895, he took temporary retirement, in 1899 he took part in the conference in Brussels on the regulation of the provisions of the Brussels General Act of July 2, 1890 relating to the spirits trade in East Africa. In autumn 1906 he took part in the conference to amend the Brussels General Act of 1890 in Brussels. Retired on February 27, 1907, he became an unpaid city ​​councilor in Leipzig. From 1902 to 1920 he was a member of the Gewandhaus concert management.

character

  • Legation Councilor (1875)
  • Real Legation Councilor (1878)
  • Secret Legation Councilor (December 23, 1882)
  • Real Secret Legation Councilor (1899)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 94/184.
  2. ↑ General Act of the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference (Wikisource)
  3. ↑ German Colonial Lexicon
  4. ↑ Gewandhaus Magazine No. 91 (2016)
personal data
SURNAME Goehring, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Consul General in the Netherlands
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH November 7, 1926
Place of death Leipzig