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    Ulrich Karl Christian Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau (29 May 1869 – 8 September 1928) was a German diplomat who became the first Foreign Minister of the...
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    other members of the Central Powers. Foreign Minister Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau headed the 180-strong German peace delegation. They departed...
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    Foreign Minister Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, who was to be sent out as the Ambassador to Moscow. Brockdorff-Rantzau was just as committed as...
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  • Norway Schack Carl Rantzau (1717–1789), Danish-German general Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869–1928), German diplomat Heino von Rantzau (1894–1946), German...
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    German delegation under the leadership of the Foreign Minister Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau arrived in Versailles. On 7 May, when faced with the conditions...
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    at the Paris Peace Conference, under the leadership of Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau immediately protested this decision, stating on 9 May 1919:...
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    Anna Constantia von Brockdorff (17 October 1680 – 31 March 1765), later the Countess of Cosel, was a German lady-in-waiting and noblewoman, and mistress...
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    of the Three Internationals, Eduard Bernstein, Otto von Bismarck, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Emperor Wilhelm II, Germany during World War I, German...
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    of negotiations with the Allies. In the coalition talks, Ulrich Graf von Brockdorff-Rantzau was treated as a member of the DDP although he did not belong...
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    Germany's allies. In February 1919, Foreign Minister Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau informed the Weimar National Assembly that Germany would have...
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    Frederick von Brocktorff, (c.1775/85–1850) painter Count Walter von Brockdorff-Ahlefeldt, (1887–1943) German general in World War II Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau...
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    Commission, a difficult and humiliating task. He fell out with Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, first Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic, in early 1919...
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    Brest-Litovsk with Russia and the entry of the SPD into the government of Max von Baden in October 1918. Baden was named chancellor after the army leadership...
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    Versailles unchanged; also, the German Foreign Minister, Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, thought that the United States was more likely to reduce the...
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    impossible. In 1932, he supported the re-election of retired Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg as German President. Solf wrote Weltpolitik und Kolonialpolitik...
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  • 2021-09-27. "Ulrich, count von Brockdorff-Rantzau | German foreign minister". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2021-09-27. "Herbert von Dirksen (Dirksen)...
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    but nothing came of the idea. In July 1918, his close friend, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, became the new German ambassador after his predecessor, Count...
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    (1842–1926), judge and politician Hans von Seeckt (1866–1936), military officer Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (1869–1928), politician and diplomat, first...
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    from 27 February to 2 March 1919 with German Foreign Minister Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, whose representatives in Austria warned internally against...
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    of his class. On request by the Foreign Minister of Germany, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Lindemann was selected as one of six officers providing security...
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    Ehrenfels, the music critic and Wagnerite Gustav Schonaich, Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Count Hermann Keyserling and Rudolf Kassner who met weekly...
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    was especially true during the chancellorships of Otto von Bismarck (1871–1890) and Bernhard von Bülow (1900–1909), both of whom had considerable prior...
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    Druidenorden according to Webster was secretly led-by Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, who had served both as Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic...
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    collaborators aimed to remove Russia from the conflict. Following Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau's advice, while posted in Denmark, Arthur Zimmermann obtained...
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    Office. In 1919, as a close staff member of Foreign Minister Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau he was Unterstaatssekretär and Generalkommissar of the German...
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    relatives of Prussians. In November 1928, after the death of Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the German ambassador in Moscow, Nadolny applied for this post...
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    Foreign Affairs. At the same time, the German ambassador Count Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, former foreign minister and head of the German delegation at...
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    Clemenceau: ""L'heure est venue du lourd règlement de comptes." Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, speaking to the Allies at Versailles in 1919: "Mais aussi dans...
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    close personal friendship with the German Ambassador to Moscow, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau (in office: 1922–1928). Diplomatic tensions fed into the war...
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    Justice, Rudolf Wissell, Economic Affairs, Gustav Bauer, Labour, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, Foreign, Eduard David without Portfolio, Hugo Preuß, Interior...
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