Kurd von Schlözer

Kurd from Schlozer ( born January 5, 1822 in Lübeck, † May 13, 1894 in Berlin, . Dr.jur, actually Conrad Nestor of Schlozer ) was an Imperial German diplomat and historian.

Family

Schlozer came from an old originating from the county of Hohenlohe family and was the son of Lübeck merchant and Russian Consul-General Karl von Schlozer. Like his older brother Nestor of Schlozer he also received the name of the Russian Saints Nestor of Kiev, the author of the Primary Chronicle, which his grandfather, the Councilor and Professor August Ludwig edited by Schlozer, but he did not use. Dorothea Schlozer was his aunt.

Kurd from Schlozer remained unmarried and childless.

Life

After visiting the Katharineum to Lübeck and the study of Oriental Studies and History in Göttingen and Berlin Schlozer first moved to Paris and worked as a publicist.

He was also recorded without actually required legal training in the Prussian diplomatic service through the mediation of Ernst Curtius and the Princess Augusta. For several years he worked in the Foreign Ministry in Berlin and wrote alongside his work several historical treatises, including the Hanseatic League, the German - Russian history and a biography of Count Chasot. As an author he is the reformer group Jung- Lübeck attributed. In 1857 he was sent as second secretary of legation to Saint Petersburg. The Messenger of Bismarck, who was his superior in 1859, has first " bad times through with him " because Schlozer inability to subordinate. Schlozer but was indispensable because of his local knowledge, and later both found to be a good relationship.

Other stations of the diplomatic career were 1863 Copenhagen and a year later Rome. Here he was secretary of the Prussian ambassador to the Holy See Friedrich Adolf Freiherr von Willisen. Even in this position, he developed a variety of contacts with artists and high church officials. 1867 of Schlozer Prussian charge d' affaires in a difficult political situation between the Papal States and the Kingdom of Italy.

After a mission on behalf of the North German Confederation in Mexico that led to the conclusion of a trade and navigation treaty, was Schlozer 1871 for the first chargé d'affaires of the German Reich in Washington, DC appointed. In letters and reports he gave an insight into the domestic political situation in the USA. He maintained contact with German - American groups and individuals, including especially to Carl Schurz, and was generally popular.

In preparation for the resumption of diplomatic relations broken off in the cultural struggle between the Empire and the Holy See in 1878 and 1881 Schlozer traveled to Rome and in 1882 was appointed to the Prussian ambassador to Pope Leo XIII. appointed. In the preparation and implementation of the peace laws of 1886/87 Schlozer experienced the height of his diplomatic career.

A little later, however, he fell into the vortex of the Bismarck's dismissal triggered, and was probably added at the instigation of Friedrich von Holstein, 1892 in retirement.

Schlozer initially remained in Rome and died shortly after his final return to Germany in Berlin in 1894. He was buried in the cemetery IV of the community in Jerusalem and New Church in the miner street, where his tomb, designed by Bernhard Sehring is now entertained as an honored grave of Berlin.

Works

Schlozer was known not so much by his historical works, but far more by his collections of letters, by his nephew Karl (1854-1916) and Leopold (1863-1946) were published by Schlozer and made ​​him the " classics of German literature letter " ( Hassenstein ) made ​​:

• Youth letters. Stuttgart 1920
• Petersburg letters. Stuttgart 1921 ( digitized, digitized )
• Roman letters. Stuttgart 1912
• Mexican letters. Stuttgart 1913
• American letters. Stuttgart 1925
• Last Roman letters. Stuttgart 1924

Awards

• Grand Cross of the Order of Pius, 1885
• Grand Cross of the Red Eagle Order, 1890