Frederic-Hans von Rosenberg (26 December 1874 – 30 July 1937) was a German diplomat and politician. He served as ''Reichsaußenminister'' (Foreign Minister of Germany) in the cabinet of
Wilhelm Cuno
Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno (2 July 1876 – 3 January 1933) was a German businessman and politician who was the chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923, for a total of 264 days. His tenure included the episode known as the Occupation of the Ruhr ...
in 1922–1923.
Early life
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Wilhelm Cuno
Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno (2 July 1876 – 3 January 1933) was a German businessman and politician who was the chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923, for a total of 264 days. His tenure included the episode known as the Occupation of the Ruhr ...
in June 1923
Rosenberg was born as Frederic (or Friedrich) Hans von Rosenberg on 26 December 1874 in Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia (present-day Germany).
Career
In 1897, Rosenberg was awarded the degree of
Dr.Jur. and entered the Prussian judicial service, in which he was promoted to ''Assessor'' in 1903. That year he transferred to the foreign service (''Auswärtiges Amt'', AA). In 1910, Rosenberg became the head of the Balkans department at the AA, and in 1912 was promoted to ''Vortragender Rat''.
During the
First World War
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, he was a member of the German delegation
negotiating with the Soviet Union at Brest-Litowsk and with
Romania
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at Bucharest. In 1918–1919, he was at the German Embassy to Switzerland at
Bern
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. In 1919, Rosenberg became ''Dirigent''—head of the political department of the AA. In 1920–22, he was Ambassador at
Vienna
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, and in 1922 briefly at
Copenhagen
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.
He was
Foreign Minister of Germany
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from November 1922 to August 1923 in the cabinet of chancellor
Wilhelm Cuno
Wilhelm Carl Josef Cuno (2 July 1876 – 3 January 1933) was a German businessman and politician who was the chancellor of Germany from 1922 to 1923, for a total of 264 days. His tenure included the episode known as the Occupation of the Ruhr ...
.
From 1924 to 1933, he was Ambassador at
Stockholm
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and then served from 1933 to 1935 as ambassador in
Ankara
Ankara ( , ; ), historically known as Ancyra and Angora, is the capital of Turkey. Located in the central part of Anatolia, the city has a population of 5.1 million in its urban center and over 5.7 million in Ankara Province, maki ...
. In 1935, he was given an indefinite leave (''im einstweiligen Ruhestand'').
Personal life
Rosenberg died on 30 July 1937 at
Fürstenzell
Fürstenzell ( bar, label=Central Bavarian, Fiaschtnzei) is a municipality in the district of Passau in Bavaria in Germany
Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most ...
, in Bavaria, Germany.
References
Further reading
* Maria Keipert (ed.): ''Biographisches Handbuch des deutschen Auswärtigen Dienstes 1871–1945.'' Published by the Auswärtiges Amt, Historischer Dienst. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: ''L–R.'' Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2008, .
* ''Frederic von Rosenberg. Korrespondenzen und Akten des deutschen Diplomaten und Außenministers 1913–1937''. Edited by Winfried Becker. Deutsche Geschichtsquellen des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Volume 66. Published by the Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Klaus Hildebrand and
Gerrit Walther. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2011, .
* Winfried Becker: ''Frederic von Rosenberg (1874–1937). Diplomat vom späten Kaiserreich bis zum Dritten Reich, Außenminister der Weimarer Republik''. Schriftenreihe der Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Volume 83. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011. .
1874 births
1937 deaths
Ambassadors of Germany to Austria
Ambassadors of Germany to Turkey
Politicians from Berlin
Foreign Ministers of Germany
German untitled nobility
People from the Province of Brandenburg
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