Kintomo MushanokÅji
Mushanokoji Kintomo (Japanese武 者 小路 公共; * August 29, 1882, † April 21, 1962 ) was the Japanese special envoy and signed the Anti-Comintern Pact directed against the Soviet Union between the Japanese Empire and the German Empire for the Japanese Empire in 1936.
The writer Mushanokoji Saneatsu was his younger brother.
Biography
Mushanokoji Kintomo was born in 1882 in the district Kojimachi of Tokyo as the third son of the noble family for ten generations Mushanokoji. His father Saneyo had studied as part of the Iwakura Mission in 1873 in Berlin. On October 27, 1887 Kintomo was presented at the age of five the noble title of Shishaku ( di Viscount ).
His academic degree in Law, he graduated from the Law Faculty of Tokyo Imperial University ( Teikoku Daigaku ), today's Tōkyō Daigaku. Then he made a career as a political appointee of the Japanese Empire.
In 1930 he was a member of the Japanese delegation to the eleventh ordinary session of the League of Nations and also took part in a case initiated by China Task Force. From 1929 to 1933 he was Japanese Ambassador to Sweden and Finland, with its headquarters in Stockholm. In this capacity, he also signed a legal agreement between Japan and Sweden.
From 1934 to 1937 he was the Japanese ambassador to Germany. On November 25, 1936, he signed the directed against the Soviet Union in Berlin, initially for five years temporary, secret treaty, the Anti-Comintern Pact. For the German side, signed the Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. On May 24, 1937 Mushanokoji Kintomo was received within the visited of Italy Antikominternkonferenz of Adolf Hitler in the Reich Chancellery.
After the Second World War, he was relieved by the occupying authority of his public offices. When the new Japanese constitution in 1947 he also lost like all nobles outside the imperial family his nobility rank. In contrast to most Exadeligen but Mushanokōjis as well Matsudaira / Tokugawa and Madenokōji are further characterized by their name as a former ( yard ) nobles ( Kuge ) recognizable.
From 1952 to 1955 he was chairman of the Japanese-German company in Tokyo.
- Japanese Ambassador to Germany
- Ambassador to Sweden
- Foreign policy ( Empire of Japan )
- Person in World War II (Japan)
- Politicians (Japan)
- Japanese
- Born in 1882
- Died in 1962
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