Hermann Speck von Sternburg position held ambassador
Career
Sternburg was the grandson of the merchant and art collector Maximilian Speck von Sternburg who was knighted with a hereditary title. Sternburg served in the military and fought through the Franco-Prussian War in the Second Saxon dragoons, and he remained in the military until 1885.In 1890, Sternburg began his diplomatic career and was secretary of legation at Beijing, chargé d'affaires at Belgrade, and first secretary of the embassy at Washington, DC. In 1898, he was high commissioner on the Samoan Commission. He became consul general for British India and Ceylon in 1900, minister plenipotentiary and envoy extraordinary to the United States in 1903, and ambassador in July 1903, succeeding Theodor von Holleben.After the bombardment of San Carlos island, Venezuela, by the Kriegsmarine on January 31, 1903, US President Theodore Roosevelt castigated Sternburg for Germany's actions. Sternburg reported to Berlin that Germany had sacrificed the little sympathy that it had in the United States.
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