Agamemnon Schliemann

Agamemnon Schliemann (Greek Αγαμέμνον Σλήμαν, * March 16, 1878, † 1954 in Paris) was a Greek politician and diplomat.

Life

Agamemnon Schliemann was a son of Heinrich Schliemann from his second marriage with Sophia Engastroménou. At his baptism in May 1878 in Athens, it would almost come to a scandal, because Heinrich Schliemann was holding a thermometer in the already consecrated water in which the child had to be immersed in the Orthodox rite three times. At the age of twelve years Agamemnon Schliemann lost his father. He studied and received his doctorate in Paris. On June 21, 1902, he met aboard the La Savoie Le Havre Coming accompanied by the sixteen- year-old Nadine de Bornemann in New York to marry them there. Nadine de Bornemann had Danish and British ancestors, but was raised in Paris.

Two years before this entry Agamemnon Schliemann had during a visit to the United States adopted the American citizenship, which was possible because his father had it also possessed. Family members of the young people tried to prevent them from Paris from the marriage of the couple, which would have been problematic under French law. When the ship was still on Quarantänekai, the pair was initially held on board. Having had been found, however, that Agamemnon Schliemann was an American, he was allowed to leave the ship with his girlfriend, have their luggage transported into the Waldorf -Astoria and himself to the office of Coudert Brothers in Empire Building, 71 Broadway, go. There, the couple married.

Agamemnon Schliemann had probably another reason to Paris, where he lived in the rue de Courcelles 32 to turn at this point for some time back: After an accident on 16 March 1902 in which the poet and journalist Narcisse Quellien killed life had come Agamemnon Schliemann's car was impounded. He did not call back. Schliemann had been sitting at the wheel and was run at full speed.

Beginning of 1914 was Schliemann, who represented in the Greek Chamber of Deputies Larissa, successor of Lambros A. Koromilas, who moved to Rome as ambassador in Washington. The New York Times reported on the occasion of this appointment, including any of its possessions in Thessaly, which accounted for a large part of his wealth.

After his divorce from Nadine Agamemnon Schliemann ran into financial difficulties. His mother, Sophia Schliemann, so the Iliou Melathron sold in 1926 to the Greek State. Nadine Schliemann later married Konstantinos Tsaldaris.

1937 leaving Agamemnon Schliemann and his older sister Andromache Ernst Meyer the right to issue the only one Schliemann's letters.

Together with Nikolaos Plastiras, Sophoklis Venizelos, Periklis Argyropoulos and Komninos Pyromaglou Schliemann founded in January 1939, the struggle committee against Ioannis Metaxas ' coup of August 4. This was a newspaper Elefheria (Freedom) out. In May 1940, the committee had to southern France to settle and dissolved.

Agamemnon Schliemann died in Paris and was buried there because he wanted to return to Greece itself no longer dead. He left no children.