Background
He was a great-grandnephew of Count Andreas von Bernstorff.
He was a great-grandnephew of Count Andreas von Bernstorff.
He became councilor of the embassy at London in 1902, minister to Egypt in 1906, and ambassador to the United States in 1908. During the World War I he was German ambassador to Turkey.
He was a veru successful dimplomat, a Democratic Party member of the republican Reichstag from 1921 to 1928, then delegate to the League of Nations and at disarmament conferences. During World War I he tried, by subsidizing a New York newspaper and financing other propaganda, to further President Wilson's attempts at mediation between the belligerents.
He was married to Jeanne (Johanna) Luckemeyer. Had two children: Luise-Alexandra (1888–1971) and Christian-Günther (1891–1947)
