Teething, Heinrich von

Born into the family of Otto von Chirsky and Begendorf, Director General of the Royal Saxon State Railways, a representative of the noble family of Chirshchki. In 1881 he entered the service in the judicial system of Saxony, in 1883 - in the diplomatic service. In the years 1885-1886. worked at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as secretary of state secretary for foreign affairs of Germany [[ Herbert von Bismarck . After that, he was deputy secretary of the embassy in Vienna, a member of diplomatic missions in Athens and Bern, and also since 1893 - adviser-ambassador of the embassy in the Ottoman Empire, and since 1895 in St. Petersburg.

In 1900-1902 He was the ambassador in Luxembourg, and in 1902-1906. Prussian envoy to Mecklenburg and Hanseatic cities. In addition, since 1900 he accompanied Emperor William II on trips as a representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1906-1907 - State Secretary of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In this capacity, on January 11, 1907, he signed with his Danish counterpart Johan Henrik von Hegermann-Lindenkron the so-called “Optanth Contract”. He removed the tension that existed after the German-Danish war (1864) in the northern border zone of Schleswig. A small group of Danes in North Schleswig was given the opportunity to choose between German and Danish citizenship.

From 1913 until the end of his life he was ambassador to Austria-Hungary. In this capacity, on December 13, 1913, he held talks with representatives of the Triple Alliance about the possibility of war against France and Russia. He and the Austrian-Hungarian chief of staff, Franz Konrad von Hötzendorf, argued that the position of the Triple Alliance in Europe would deteriorate, since on the other hand, the unification of Great Britain, France and Russia would occur. In a detailed statement to Gottlieb von Jagow of October 29, 1915, which was also submitted to Chancellor Betman Bethmann-Hollweg , the ambassador opposed the experimental Austro-Polish decision on the Polish question. Such a decision, in his opinion, would lay the foundation for the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographisches Handbuch des deutschen Auswärtigen Dienstes 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, Nachträge. Herausgegeben vom Auswärtigen Amt, Historischer Dienst. Band 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn ua 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 .
• http://www.zeno.org/Meyers-1905/A/Tschirschky+und+Bögendorff