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Friedrich von Keller (diplomat)

Friedrich von Keller
Friedrich von Keller.jpg
The diplomat in 1935
Born August Friedrich Wilhelm Keller
(1873-11-07)7 November 1873
Munich
Died 8 May 1960(1960-05-08) (aged 86)
Tutzing
Education Würzburg University
Occupation Ambassador

August Friedrich Wilhelm Keller, from 1906 Friedrich von Keller, (7 November 1873 in Munich – 8 May 1960 in Tutzing) was a German diplomat. He served as ambassador in Belgrade, Brussels, Buenos Aires and Ankara, and represented Germany at the Geneva Disarmament Conference in 1933.

Keller came from a family originally based in Swabia, first mentioned in documents in 1733. He was born in Munich, son of the later-ennobled Royal Bavarian Lieutenant General Eugen Keller () (1843–1938) and Berta Hassold (1846-1929).

Keller studied law at the Würzburg University, worked for the Bavarian Ministry of Justice from 1895 in earned his doctorate in 1896. In 1899 he joined the Foreign Service and spent the first years in Berlin. In 1901 he was sent as deputy consul to Cairo, Egypt, in 1902 to Cape Town, South Africa, and in 1904 to Maputo, Mozambique. From 1905 to 1908 he was a vice consul in Calcutta, India. From 1908 he worked in the legal department of the Foreign Office in Berlin.

During World War I, he achieved the rank of major in the Royal Bavarian Landwehr, but was recalled to the Foreign Office in 1916. After the end of World War I, he was considering to continue scientific work at the University of Würzburg, but was sent by the Foreign Office to the peace negotiations at Versailles. In the summer of 1920 he was sent as a charge d'affaires in Belgrade, where he was promoted to ambassador 18 December 1921. From 1924 to 1928, he served as ambassador to Brussels, Belgium.


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