GERMAN DIPLOMAT

Evening Post, Issue 28, 1 August 1936, Page 14

GERMAN DIPLOMAT

DEATH OF YON BUELOW

Bernhard W. yon Buelow, German Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, died on June 21 of complications from a lung inflammation by grippe, says the "New York Times." He was 51 years old. Herr yon Buelow was taken ill on May 31. A bachelor, the diplomat was considered to be one of the most studious and hard-working men in the diplomatic service. His death deprived the Foreign Office of its most renowned member and opens the way for Herr Adolf Hitler to place his own candidate in this key spot. Among successors mentioned are Joachim yon Ribbentrop, now Hitler's personal Ambassador Extraordinary and Dr. Hans H. Dieckhoff. Bernhard Wilhelm yon Buelow was an outstanding figure in German diplomacy both during the imperial regime and the new order in the Reich His career began in 1911 as attache of the German Embassy at Washington. Later he was secretary at Constantinople and Athens. He served with the guards in the World War, was wounded, received the Iron Cross, first and second classes and was present at the peace conferences at Brest-Litovsk and Versailles. In 1919 he resigned from the Foreign Office but returned in 1925 and was one of Gustav Stresemann's chief advisers. Herr yon Buelow was reputed to be the real author of the Austro-German Customs Union, or Anschluss plan. ACTED AS SPOKESMAN. At Geneva, where he was one of the leaders of the German delega-

tion to the League of Nations, he was frequently the spokesman of his compatriots. He was also a member of the special League committee of eleven that studied how the League Covenant might be harmonised with the Kellogg-Briand anti-war pact. In the spring of 1932 he was in London at the conference on the Danubian situation.

Herr yon Buelow was appointed Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in May, 1930. He was a nephew of Prince Bernhard yon Bueiow, who was Imperial Chancellor. His father was MajorGeneral Adolph yon Buelow, and his grandfather was Bernhard E. yon Buelow, who was also at one time Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Born at Potsdam, he studied at the Universities of Lausanne, Munich, Berlin, and Heidelberg. He won his Doctor of Laws degree at Heidelberg. After his return to the diplomatic service Herr yon Buelow was for some time director of the European Department of the Foreign Office in Berlin. In July, 1930, he signed the extradition treaty between Germany and the United States with Ambassador Sackett.

Herr yon Buelow wrote several books, including "War Debt Problems and the People's Rights," "The Crisis: the Main Currents of the Diplomatic Discussions at the Outbreak of War," "The First Hours of the World War," and "The Versailles League." He had travelled extensively in all parts of the world and was a member of the International Law Association. Besides his brilliant work in the diplomatic field, he was regarded as one of Germany's foremost jurists.