Sir Horace Rumbold, 9th Baronet

Sir Horace Rumbold George Montagu, 9th Baronet GCB, GCMG, KCVO, PC ( * February 5, 1869, † May 24, 1941 ) was a British diplomat. Rumbold held inter alia 1928-1933, the Office of the British Ambassador in Berlin.

Life and work

Rumbold was born in 1869 as the eldest son of the 8th Baronet Rumbold. After the visit of the English elite school Eton College Rumbold joined the British Diplomatic Service.

1889 took over Rumbold, an eloquent man who spoke his mother tongue, Arabic, Japanese, and German, the post of the British embassy attaché in The Hague, where he remained until 1890. He then held posts in Cairo, Tehran, Vienna and Munich. From 1909 to 1913 he was in Tokyo, and from 1913 to 1914, worked until the outbreak of the First World War, in Berlin. From 1916 to 1919 he was ambassador in Bern. In 1919 he was ambassador in Warsaw in the newly created Poland.

From 1920 to 1924 Rumboldals was Allied High Commissioner in Constantinople, Opel, during which time he signed the Treaty of Lausanne as a representative of the British Empire. After an ambassador to Madrid (1924-1928), he became in 1928 the office of the British Ambassador to the German Empire.

In the early 1930s, he advocated a policy of appeasement of Britain against the relatively moderate government of Chancellor Heinrich Brüning ( Centre Party ) in the hope of being able to prevent a drift of the empire in the ethnic nationalism. From that time, many astute characterizations of the German political situation and the protagonists find. So Rumbold featured as the German Chancellor Franz von Papen as a man who will not take just any obstacle without Think galloping in attack, but would ride in his thoughtless way even detours to find new obstacles.

After the appointment of Hitler as Chancellor Rumbold sent some dispatches to London, who warned against the excessiveness of the new regime and its leaders. So he wrote about in a report: " ... it would be misleading to base any hopes on a return to sanity ... [the German government is Encouraging an attitude of mind ] ... which can only end in one way ... I have the impression did the persons directing the policy of the Hitler government are not normal. "

After Rumbold was transferred in June 1933 to retire, he lived through an eight- year-old retiree time. In SeSiSo club, a cultural discussion groups, he continued to maintain contacts with moderate public figures. Rumbold died 1941. At this time he was in British politics as one of the most lucid and connoisseur of Warner, which earned him the respect of his homeland from the Nazi regime.

Works

• Literature by and about Horace Rumbold in the catalog that German national library
• The War Crisis in Berlin: July to August 1914 by Horace Rumbold (London, 1944).
• Recollections of a diplomatist vol II by Sir Horace Rumbold (1902 )
• Final Recollections of a diplomatist Sir Horace Rumbold (1905 )
• Francis Joseph and his times by Sir Horace Rumbold (1909 )