Hinz, Paul

Paul Hinz was born in 1864 in the small town of Schwedt , about eighty miles northeast of Berlin . The Hintze family was part of the hardworking German middle class Prussian villages. In Sweden, there were only ten thousand inhabitants, but due to the fact that the city is located on the Oder River, he benefited from trade. Paul's father owned a tobacco factory, producing cigars of raw tobacco that he imported. He also had a seat on the City Council. The Hinz family was one of the most respected and wealthy in the city. Paul studied at the humanitarian gymnasium (high school), and in 1882 he graduated from the undergraduate .

He joined the navy at the age of eighteen. Paul hit the authorities with his mind and stiffness. After basic training on the Prince Adalbert training ship, Hinz sailed seven seas over the next twelve years, in which he saw the coasts of Africa , the Middle East , North and South America . In 1894, Lieutenant Hinz of the Navy (Kapitänleutnant) enrolled at the Naval Academy in Murvik .

From 1903 he was a naval attaché , from 1908 he was a military commissioner in St. Petersburg . From 1911 to 1918 he successively served as ambassador : in Mexico , Beijing and Christiania (now Oslo , the capital of Norway ). From July 9, 1918 until the first half of October 1918, he was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany , replacing Richard von Kühlmann at this post. When, in the conditions of military defeat and the growing revolutionary movement, the German Empire was forced to abandon the power of the military dictatorship that Ginze supported, and create a government of liberals and social democrats (who made up the majority), Paul Ginze resigned. For some time he still remained in the main headquarters of the German army and joined the delegation, which went to the front to negotiate a ceasefire, but after the November Revolution of 1918, withdrew from state affairs. He died on August 19, 1941.

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