Johannes Kriege
German politician and diplomat (1859-1937)
Johannes Kriege (22 July 1859 – 28 May 1937) was a German jurist, lawyer, diplomat and politician.
Early 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. In 1877, he began to study jurisprudence at Göttingen and Strasburg. He passed his stage one state law exams and obtaining a post in the Prussian legal service as a court clerk in 1880 and received his doctorate of law in 1881. That year, he passed his second level state law exams. He entered the Prussian diplomatic service in 1886.
Diplomat
In 1887, he received his first diplomatic posting and was appointed as the German acting vice-consul in Amsterdam, which may have been when he first got to know Pieter Cort van der Linden, who would become the Dutch prime minister during the First World War during which Kriege described him as having long a personal friend.
Kriege's next appointment, between 1889 and 1894, was as consul in Asunción, where his son Walter was born.
Kriege returned to Europe in 1896 and received the same function in Sarajevo. During the years that followed, he held an increasingly-senior succession of legal posts in the foreign ministry.
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