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Johannes Kriege (22 July 1859 - 28 May 1937) was a German jurist (lawyer), diplomat and politician.

Life

Johannes Daniel Jakob Kriege was born in Lüdinghausen, a midsized town then in Prussia's Province of Westphalia, located between Münster to its northeast and Dortmund to its south. Starting in 1877 he studied jurisprudence at Göttingen and Strasburg, passing his stage one state law exams and obtaining a post in the Prussian legal service as a court clerk in 1880, and receiving his doctorate of law in 1881. 1881 was also the year in which he passed his second level state law exams. He entered the Prussian diplomatic service in 1886.

In 1887 he received his first diplomatic posting, appointed German acting Vice-consul in Amsterdam, which may have been when he first got to know Pieter Cort van der Linden. Van der Linden later became the wartime Dutch prime minister, at which point Kriege would describe him as a personal friend of long standing. Kriege's next appointment, between 1889 and 1894, was as consul in Asunción. He returned to Europe in 1896, taking up the same function in Sarajevo.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). During the years that followed he held an increasingly senior succession of legal posts in the foreign ministry. In 1900 he was appointed to the Privy Legation Council (Legationsrat).Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

During the early years of the twentieth century Kriege participated in several of the important conferences that reflected growing international tensions across Europe. He attended the Second Hague Peace Conference, and was a permanent member of the Hague court between 1906 and his death. In 1908/09 he represented Germany at the London Law of the Sea conference.Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page).

References

  1. ^ "Kriege, Johannes". "Akten der Reichskanzlei. Weimarer Republik" online. Historische Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, München. Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  2. Roger Chickering; Stig Förster (11 September 2000). Great War, Total War: Combat and Mobilization on the Western Front, 1914-1918. Cambridge University Press. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-521-77352-2.
  3. ^ "Kriege, Johannes". Kritische Online-Edition der Nuntiaturberichte Eugenio Pacellis (1917-1929). Retrieved 15 August 2016.
  4. Marc Frey (1 January 1998). Der Erste Weltkrieg und die Niederlande: Ein neutrales Land im politischen und wirtschaftlichen Kalkül der Kriegsgegner. Walter de Gruyter. p. 88. ISBN 978-3-05-004812-3.
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