Edward Goschen

Sir William Edward Goschen, 1st Baronet, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, PC ( born July 18, 1847 in Eltham, now part of London, England; † May 20, 1924 in London) was a British diplomat German descent.

Life

Edward Goschen was one of the sons of the Saxon businessman William Henry Goschen ( William Henry Goschen ), the younger brother of George Tory politician Joachim Goschen, 1st Viscount Goschen and grandson of Georg Joachim Goschen Saxon publisher. Goshen attended Rugby School and studied at Oxford University, for which he took up as a right-handed batsman in five first-class matches in cricket. 1869 Goshen entered into the British Foreign Service. From 1905 to 1908 he served as British Ambassador to Vienna, then as a successor to Sir Edward Malet, 1908-1914, until the outbreak of World War I, as a British ambassador in Berlin. At Goshen is remembered today primarily still in the context of his conversation with the German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann -Hollweg August 4, 1914, in which the famous request of the Chancellor to Goshen fell, the United Kingdom should not " because of a shred of paper " (meaning the warranty Britain for the sovereignty of the State was Belgium ) enter the war. In the UK, these words were decades construed as proof German barbarism and militarist sentiments and so procured Goshen as her narrators, celebrity 's evidence of " Hunnish of culture ".

Goschen was from 1905 a member of the Privy Council of the British Crown and in 1916 a baronet of Beacon Lodge, Highcliffe, appointed in the county of Southampton. He died in 1924 in Chelsea, London.

Since 1932 Highcliffe is one of Christchurch, which since 1974 belongs again to Dorset.