Konstantin Dumba

Konstantin Theodor Dumba ( born June 17, 1856 in Vienna, † January 6, 1947 bottom village, community Faaker See, Carinthia ) was an Austrian diplomat and pacifist.

Life

Konstantin Dumba was born in 1856 as the son of Greek- Austrian entrepreneur Nikolaus Dumba. According to the study and promotion he joined in 1879 in the Austrian diplomatic service in a.

Immediately after his promotion to Legationsrat Category I on December 4, 1895 Dumba was transferred on 10 December 1895 on the Austro-Hungarian Embassy in Paris, where he replaced the Ambassador Lützow. From 1903 to 1905 served as Dumba k and -k. Envoy to Belgrade. It was followed by four years of use in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vienna until 1909 and a longer mission in Sweden, which lasted until 1912.

March 4, 1913 to November 4, 1915 Dumba served as successor Ladislaus Hengelmüller of Hengervárs as the last Ambassador of Austria-Hungary in the United States of America. At the end of 1915, nearly a year after the outbreak of the First World War, Dumba was explained together with the German diplomat Franz von Papen and Karl Boy-Ed by the U.S. government on suspicion of espionage and sabotage persona non grata and expelled from the country ( " Dumba affair "). Dumba had requested in Vienna to raise money to fund strikes in U.S. munitions factories. Based on an agreement of the U.S. government with the British Dumba was allowed to pass through the British naval blockade of the European continent and unhindered return to his homeland.

After his retirement Dumba 1917 President of the Austrian League of Nations League.

Works

• Ten years of the League of Nations, 1930.
• Triple Alliance and Entente policy, 1931.
• Austria -Hungary and the War, New York, 1915. (Along with Albert Apponyis, Ladislaus Hengelmüller of Hengervár and Alexander Nuber )
• Memoirs of a Diplomat, 1932.