Background
Bernstorff, Count Johann was born on November 14, 1862 in London, England. Son of Count Albrecht and Anna (Baroness Anna Koenneritz) Bernstorff.
Bernstorff, Count Johann was born on November 14, 1862 in London, England. Son of Count Albrecht and Anna (Baroness Anna Koenneritz) Bernstorff.
Educated Gymnasium, Dresden, and Ratzeburg. (Doctor of Laws, Columbia, 1909, Brown University, Johns Hopkins. University of Wisconsin, and Union University, 1910.
University of Pennsylvania, and University of Chicago, 1911, University of Pittsburgh, and Franklin and Marshall, 1912, Princeton, 1913).
Officer 1st Regiment Artillery Guards, Berlin, 1881-1889. Attache, German Embassy, Constantinople, 1889-1890. In foreign office, Berlin, 1890-1892.
Secretary legations at Belgrade, 1892-1894, Dresden, 1894-1895, embassy at Saint St. Petersburg, 1895-1897.
Legation at Munich, 1897-1902. Councillor of embassy, London, 1902-1906.
Minister at Cairo, 1906-1908. Ambassador of Germany to the United States, since 1908.
Married Jeanne Luckemeyer, of New York, November 14, 1887.