Rudolf Nadolny
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Rudolf Nadolny in 1917
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| Born |
12 July 1873 Groß Stürlack, East Prussia, German Empire |
| Died | 18 May 1953 (aged 79) Düsseldorf-Benrath, Germany |
| Occupation | Diplomat |
| Children | Burkard Nadolny |
Rudolf Nadolny (12 July 1873 – 18 May 1953) was a German diplomat and military officer. During the First World War he worked in a branch of the German General Staff, which experimented in biological warfare. He was the German Ambassador to Turkey (1924–1933) and the Soviet Union (1933–1934) and head of the German delegation at the World Disarmament Conference (1932–1933). He sought to pursue close relations between Germany and the Soviet Union. Nadolny left the diplomatic service in opposition to Hitler's policy towards the Soviets.
Nadolny was born in Groß Stürlack, East Prussia (modern Sterławki Wielkie, Poland) to Heinrich (1847–1944) and Agnes Nadolny née Trinker (1847–1910). His father's family had been landowners in East Prussia since the 14th century. His mother's ancestors were Protestant exiles from Salzburg.
Nadolny passed his Abitur at the gymnasium (school) of Rastenburg in 1892 and studied law at the University of Königsberg. Nadolny joined the German diplomatic service in 1902 and was deployed in St. Petersburg in 1903 -1907 where he witnessed the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Russo-Japanese War. Nadolny was then sent to Persia, Bosnia and Albania.
During the First World War Nadolny led the political section of the German General Staff the so-called ""Sektion Politik Berlin des Generalstabs". This group and Nadolny himself were responsible for acts of sabotage using explosives and biological warfare. In 1915 Nadolny shipped anthrax and glanders (a horse disease that is also deadly to humans) cultures to the German embassy in Romania using them to target animals traded with the Russian Empire. The operation lasted till August 1916. Bacteria used by Nadolny were prepared in Berlin, and from there Nadolny sent out the biological agents to Spain, United States, Argentina and Romania It was Nadolny who sent the infamous Anton Dilger to the still neutral United States, where Dilger engaged in one of the first acts of state sponsored bioterrorism during the 20th Century,
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