Biography Rudolf Nadolny

1 biography

1.1 first world war
1.2 interwar era
1.3 postwar
1.4 family

biography

nadolny born in groß stürlack, east prussia (modern sterławki wielkie, poland) heinrich (1847–1944) , agnes nadolny née trinker (1847–1910). father s family had been landowners in east prussia since 14th century. mother s ancestors protestant exiles salzburg.

nadolny passed abitur @ gymnasium (school) of rastenburg in 1892 , studied law @ university of königsberg. nadolny joined german diplomatic service in 1902 , deployed in st. petersburg in 1903 -1907 witnessed russian revolution of 1905 , russo-japanese war. nadolny sent persia, bosnia , albania.

first world war

during first world war nadolny led political section of german general staff so-called sektion politik berlin des generalstabs . group , nadolny himself responsible acts of sabotage using explosives , biological warfare. in 1915 nadolny shipped anthrax , glanders (a horse disease deadly humans) cultures german embassy in romania using them target animals traded russian empire. operation lasted till august 1916. bacteria used nadolny prepared in berlin, , there nadolny sent out biological agents spain, united states, argentina , romania nadolny sent infamous anton dilger still neutral united states, dilger engaged in 1 of first acts of state sponsored bioterrorism during 20th century,

in july 1916 became german chargé d affaires in persia, returned germany in november 1917 serve acting head of eastern department of german foreign office. such, nadolny took part in negotiations led treaty of brest-litovsk.

interwar era

after end of first world war, nadolny foreign office s representative in office of german president. january 1920 led german legation in stockholm , became german ambassador turkey in may 1924. during interwar era nadolny wrote out of mixing of german , slavic blood new species , race born, east-elbian race, , attacked czech national leader masaryk criticizing prussian spirit , claiming czechs relatives of prussians.

in november 1928, after death of ulrich von brockdorff-rantzau, german ambassador in moscow, nadolny applied post efforts vetoed gustav stresemann, appointed herbert von dirksen instead. february 1932 october 1933, nadolny head of german delegation @ world disarmament conference in geneva. in spring of 1932, when general kurt von schleicher brought down government of heinrich brüning , had friend franz von papen appointed chancellor, nadolny of 3 men interviewed scheicher possible foreign minister papen government. other 2 men interviewed foreign minister baron leopold von hoesch, german ambassador france, , baron konstantin von neurath, german ambassador great britain. ultimately, neurath chosen schleicher foreign minister in cabinet of president s friends papen government known, , never forgot nadolny disappointed did not portfolio, wanted badly. neurath stayed on foreign minister, serving in papen, schleicher , hitler governments, lasting until 4 february 1938 when hitler fired him. nadolny became german ambassador soviet union in october 1933. neurath-who saw nadolny rival-and knowing of hitler s anti-soviet inclinations , nadolny s advocacy of better relations soviet union, gave him moscow appointment in order ruin career. nadolny s attempts enhance german–soviet relations on basis of treaty of rapallo (1922) largely unsuccessful contradicted hitler s policy. nadolny believed in 1933 feasible nazi germany annex polish territories in pomerania in exchange promising poles lithuanian memel

nadolny argued against german–polish non-aggression pact of 1934 because of influence on german–soviet relations , urged decent treatment of litvinov if jewish . in conference hitler, nadolny pointed out in view close ties russia of essential interest, while hitler rejected compromise bolshevism. however, nadolny admitted friendly relationship russia impossible. meeting, described stormy 1 , ended hitler declaring conversation finished while nadolny answered conversation had begun . on occasion addressed hitler herr reichskanzler , opposed common mein führer , , refused use nazi salute. nadolny resigned on 16 june 1934 , worked administrator of estate. in world war ii served captain , later major @ wehrmacht s high command , on staff of admiral canaris.

postwar

in 1945 nadolny, without compromising nazi party affiliation, became president of german red cross , active in society german reunification , german unity association . growing tensions between western allies , soviets, nadolny seen soviet agent , mistrusted.

during blockade of berlin in 1948–49, nadolny moved west germany. died in 1953 in düsseldorf.

family

nadolny married Änny matthiessen (1882–1977) in 1905. burkard nadolny (1905–68) son , sten nadolny grandson.