Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter
Family
Kiderlen Waechter came from a family from Neuburg at Hohenems (Vorarlberg ), the direct strain series began with the White Gerber Michael Kiderlen, since 1610 citizens in Ulm.
He was the son of the royal Württemberg court bankers Kiderlen Robert and Marie, Baroness von Waechter. Father Robert Kiderlen had been raised in 1852 with the award of the Order of Civil Merit of the Württemberg crown in the personal nobility.
It was only on September 11, 1868 with a diploma of 22 January 1869, Alfred's mother Marie Kiderlen already collected as a widow along with their children Alfred, Sarah and Johanna Kiderlen in the Württemberg hereditary nobility, together with the name and coat of arms association with Baron von Waechter as " of Kiderlen Waechter ".
Life
Kiderlen Waechter attended the Prince's School in Grimsby (1868-1870), took 1870/1871 as a volunteer at the German -French war in part. 1871-1877 he studied law at the universities of Tübingen, Leipzig and Strasbourg. He was active in his studies in Tübingen in the connection Normannia Tübingen.
1877 joined Kiderlen Waechter in the Foreign Service of the German Empire and held posts abroad in Copenhagen, St Petersburg and Paris. In 1886 he was transferred as a counselor of legation to the German representative in Constantinople Opel. 1888 promoted to lecturer Council at the Foreign Office, he made a career in the Department of Eastern question.
Due to a disrespectful allusion in the satirical magazine called Kladderadatsch Kiderlen the editor of the magazine to a duel and wounded him in the shoulder. The subsequent sentencing to four months' imprisonment, had to serve more than two weeks on the Ehrenbreitstein of the Kiderlen 1894 just something that did not affect his diplomatic career. There followed in 1895 the appointment as ambassador in Copenhagen.
Because uninhibited remarks about Kaiser Wilhelm II Kiderlen fell three years later in disgrace and had to spend the next ten years off of world affairs as ambassador in Bucharest. As a representative of the diseased ambassador in Constantinople Opel, he led the 1907 negotiations on the construction of the Baghdad railway. With his appointment as the Deputy State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office, the involuntary exile Kiderlen 1908 was interrupted. Through his negotiating skills he helped overcome the Bosnia crisis and negotiated a Franco-German agreement on Morocco from.
After the dismissal of the Chancellor Prince Bernhard von Bülow Kiderlen 1910 was appointed Head of the Foreign Office. The first pursued by Kiderlen foreign policy understanding concept received a severe setback in the Second Moroccan Crisis 1911. The German Empire had to give up for a small territorial gains in West Africa 's ambitions in Morocco. The fleet negotiations with England in 1912 ended unsuccessfully.