Word: rantzau
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...Russia. Therefore President Paul von Hindenburg bestowed the most important diplomatic appointment in his gift, last week, when he sent Dr. Herbert von Dirksen, erstwhile Chief of the Eastern Division of the German Foreign Office to Moscow, as German Ambassador. The new appointee succeeds late famed Ambassador Count Brockdorff-Rantzau. Dr. von Dirksen served during the War as an officer of Uhlans, began his diplomatic career with the Republic in 1918, has never before held ministerial position or ambassadorial rank. C. Prime Minister Hermann Miiller appointed and despatched officials to administer $5,000,000 in unemployment doles...
...German Ambassador to Soviet Russia, Count Brockdorff-Rantzau, has been present or represented from the first, striving constantly to assure a fair trial for employes of the A. E. G. who stand accused...
Myself, Prince Bismarck .......6 ft. 2 in. My eldest son, Count Herbert.......6 ft. 1 1/3 in. My Youngest son, Count William ....6ft. 0 in. My son-in-law, Count Rantzau ......5 ft. 10 in. My wife, Princess Bismarck..........5 ft. 8 in. My daughter, Countess Rantzau...
...sadness, like the last reverberations of an iron bell, stole into German hearts last week as the Countess Maria Rantzau. only daughter of the great Prince Bismarck, died at Kiel, in her 77th year...
...married Count Kuno von Rantzau, scion of a distinguished Schleswig-Holstein house. She had been in love with the scintillant young Count Eulenberg. Her father's triumphs up to that time, after the peace of Vienna, after "1870", had brought Europe literally to the feet of the Bismarcks. But typhus fever swept away her lover, so she married Count Rantzu, who later was German Ambassador to Holland...