Background
VON BULOW, Prince Bernhard Henry Martin Charles was born on May 3, 1849 in Klein-Flottbeck, Holstein. Son of Bernhard Ernest von Biilow, Prussian Minister of State and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire.
VON BULOW, Prince Bernhard Henry Martin Charles was born on May 3, 1849 in Klein-Flottbeck, Holstein. Son of Bernhard Ernest von Biilow, Prussian Minister of State and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs of the German Empire.
Studied at at the public schools of Frankfort on the Main, Neustrelitz, Halle on the Saale, and at the Universities of Lausanne, Leipsic, and Berlin.
Entered the Prussian regiment of Royal Hussars for the campaign of 1870, and served in this regiment as lieutenant until 1872. Attached to the President of the district of Metz, 1872-1873. Entered the Diplomatic Service, 1873.
Was Attacl^ in the Foreign Office at Berlin till 1874. Attache at Rome, 75. Promoted to be Secretary of Legation, December 1875.
Secretary at the Embassies of St. Petersburg and Vienna, 1876. Charge d’Affaires at Athens, 1877. Secretary of the Berlin Congress, 1878.
Second and afterwards First Secretary of the Embassy at Paris, 1879-1884. First Secretary at the Embassy at St.Petersburg, 8S. Minister at Bukarest, 1888-1893.
Ambassador at Rome, 1893-1897. Minister of State and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1900. German Imperial Chancellor and Prussian President of the Council of Ministers, 1900-1909.
Member of the House of Peers of Prussia. Prince of the Kingdom of Prussia; Major-General.