OBITUARY

Evening Star, Issue 19802, 28 February 1928, Page 4

OBITUARY

PRINCE LICHNOWSKY

Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright

HE [{LIN, February 27. (Received February 28, at 11.40 a.m.)

Tlie death is announced of Prince Lichnowsky, German Ambassador to Britain in 1914.

[Prince Lichnowsky was born in 1860. lie was a member of an old anu illustrious Polish family, with estates in Austrian and Prussian Silesia, he was born at Kreukenort, the son of Charles, Prince Lichnowsky, a Prussian cavalry general, and Princess Marie do CroyDulmcn. He was for a time an officer in the Life Guard Hussars, and in 1904 married Countess Mechtilde Acro-Zimic-berg. An attache of the German Embassy in London, 1885, he was stationed later at Stockholm, Constantinople, Dresden, Bukarest, and Vienna, and Ambassador in London, and held that post until the outbreak of the Great War in August, 191 a. Credited from the outset with a desire to improve Anglo-German relations, the prince was generally regarded as having been an unconscious tool of a cynical diplomacy, of which the chief agent at the German embassy in London was Baron von Kuhlmann. hi Germany he was accused of misleading his own country in regard to the position in Ireland just before the outbreak of the Great War. In a memorandum, ‘My Mission to London,' written in 1916 for private circulation, hut made public in 1918, and published in April, 1918, the prince definitely charged Germany with having deliberately destroyed the chance of peace, and paid a tribute to Sir Edward Grey’s pacific policy. As a result of this publication the prince resigned his ambassadorial rank, and was prohibited from writing articles for the Press. His wife wrote a travel book on Egypt, ‘ Tho Land of the Pharaohs,’ 1912.]