Friedrich Rosen

Friedrich Rosen (August 30, 1856 in Leipzig - November 27, 1935 in Beijing) was a German Orientalist, diplomat and politician. From May to October 1921 he was German foreign minister.

Life

His grandfather Friedrich ball horn roses was Chancellor of the Duchy-Lippe-Detmold, his father George Rosen published as orientalist writings on Islam. However, George decided to roses, in the diplomatic service to Prussia. When he was a consul in the Middle East and the Balkans. His mother came from a family of a British scholar of Jewish faith.

In this cosmopolitan atmosphere, he joined 1856 in Leipzig to the world. He spent his youth in Jerusalem, where his father worked as a consul. Friedrich Rosen enjoyed an education in four languages (German, English, Arabic and Turkish). He also decided to study early modern and oriental languages, entitling him to Berlin, Leipzig, Göttingen and Paris. After graduating he worked for several months as a tutor for the children Frederick Temple Hamilton-Temple-Black Woods, the viceroy of India in London.

In addition to his basic attitude anglophilen remained a passion for oriental culture all his life. From 1887 onwards, he taught Persian and Urdu at the Department of Oriental Languages in Berlin. After a dispute with the Institute Director in 1890 he retired from this function and, as his father before him, he proceeded to become a member of the Foreign Office. As speaker he worked in Beirut and Tehran, before 1898 with the establishment of a consulate in Baghdad was charged.

After the Palestine travel Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed Rosen to the Consul in Jerusalem. Only two years later, 1900 he was appointed to the Political Department of Foreign Affairs. Rosen was considered the expert on the Arab world, with its liberal views, his simultaneous support for the monarchy and its English views, similar to his - not only political - friend Wilhelm Solf, for an understanding with Britain for the right personality was considered.

Under the named after him Rosen represented Friedrich Rosen 1904/1905 in Ethiopia the interests of the German Empire. Relations with Germany were to Ethiopia to hardly any other major power so good. On his return journey to Europe Rosen received the statement, as envoy in Tangiers to stay. In 1916, Germany stated that the idea of German-central Africa in mind, Portugal war. Rosen kehrte mit freiem Geleit in seine Heimat zurück. Rosen returned with free passage back to his hometown.

Wilhelm II appointed him to be messengers in The Hague, where he remained until his ascent into the big policy remained. In this capacity he visited Wilhelm II in his Dutch exile house Doorn a visit from what the German public with mixed feelings registered.

In the spring of 1921 Reich Chancellor Joseph Wirth appointed Rosen to the Reich Minister for the exterior of the cabinet I Wirth. On the issue of reparations appeared the Christian Social Wirth anglophiler and also a parteiloser foreign ministers considered to be conducive. In the five months Rosen's tenure lasted, he acquired a peace treaty with the United States as a permanent earnings. Rosen retired in protest against the London ultimatum, in which the Entente powers combined the demands of high reparations by Germany with direct threats. He saw in the policy of the victorious powers of double standards: On the one hand, they would proclaim the self-determination of peoples, but on the other hand showed no respect, to the referendum in Upper Silesia, where a 60 percent majority voted in favour of retaining the status as a part of Germany.

Friedrich Rosen retired in October 1921 from the civil service, his successor, the Wirths policy accordingly, the similar principles committed Walther Rathenau. Rosen dedicated himself as chairman of the German Oriental Society, the umbrella organization of the Orientalists in Germany, increasingly scientific work. His up today in the work of well-known Oriental translation of the Rubajat Omar Khajjams is available in several editions published.

Since the seizure of power by the Nazis and their ideology Friedrich roses from the beginning to crumble, was the Foreign Minister because of his anti-Semitic hatred descent. Yet he still maintained until his death to contact the club SeSiSo his friend Solf, from which circles a few years later, the resistance group Solf circle developed. 1935 Friedrich Rosen died during a stay in Beijing, where his son Georg to the German embassy was working, the result of a leg break. Because of the racial policy of the Nazi regime was forced Georg Rosen 1938, the diplomatic service.