Wilhelm von Schoen

Wilhelm von Schoen as German ambassador in Paris

Jean-Baptiste Bienvenu-Martin (foreground), Wilhelm von Schoen (right), and Philippe Berthelot.

Wilhelm Eduard Freiherr von Schoen (Schön) (June 3, 1851 in Worms – April 24, 1933 in Berchtesgaden) was a German diplomat. He was especially known as German ambassador in Paris at the beginning of World War I and as State Secretary for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire.

Notes

• Der Nationalismus im Leben der Dritten Republik, Berlin 1920. (Mitautor)
• Erlebtes: Beiträge zur politischen Geschichte der neuesten Zeit, Stuttgart 1921.
• The Memoirs of An Ambassador. A Contribution to the Political History of Modern Times, London 1922,
• Mémoires (1900-1914), Paris 1922.
• Deutschland und die Schuldfrage, Berlin 1924.
• Kleiner Führer durch das Berchtesgadener Land, Berchtesgaden 1925.
• The German Declaration of War on France: The Question of Telegram Mutilations. Premier Poincaré versus Ambassador von Schoen, USA 1927.

External links

• Works by or about Wilhelm von Schoen at Internet Archive
• Biographie im Nordisk Familijebok von 1916 (Swedish)
• Wilhelm von Schoen in the German National Library catalogue