Evening star., 1923-06-21
Won Kuhlmann, Fomenter of War,
Divorced by Rich German Wife

the German cruisers the Goeben and
the Bresiau. flying the Turkish flag.
but with officers and crews composed
entirely of men of the imperial Ger
man navy. on unfortified and defense
less Russian towns on the Black
sea, which precipitated the Ottoman
empire into the war.
During the war Won kuhlmann
lost his enormously wealthy Wife,
who left him with several children.
Yet only a few weeks later. while
filing the position of minister OF
foreign affairs at Berlin. he was SO
savagely attacked In the reichstag
at Berlin and in the, German press
on the score. of his fragrant and public
immoralities at a conference which
had just taken place at Bucharest
week previously that popular ciamor.
and especially the Indignation of the
late empress, compelled Chancellor Won
Hertling to insist upon his resignation.
Two winters ago he managed. de-
spite his matrimonial record, to Sc
cure the hand of another enormously
wealthy heiress. namely, that of the
only child OF the principal coal mag
lander -Fuld. She had been engaged
before the war to Prince Alexander
Romanofsky. fifth Duke of Leuchten-
berg. A member of the imperial Rus
sian family. Her father announced
at the time that he would give her a
dowry OF s15.oOO.O0o But Emperor
Nicholas would only give his consent
to the union on the condition that it
was OF a -morganatic character or
else that Prince George relinQuished
brother. Sergius. descending to the
rank OF the ordinary nobility. He
declared that he would not tolerate
under any other conditions the mar
riage of a member of his family to a
daughter of the Jewish race. Conse-
hn Ant
of
Then Marie Won Friedlander mar
a younger son of the late Lord
Redesdale, in January, 1914, most of
the members of the imperial family
at Berlin being present at the we'd
ding. Jack Milford was a strikingly
handsome man, who served with dis
tinction as an officer of the royal
horse guards during the war. But by
and the wedding trip completed the
company, Jack Milford returning to
England, making sacrifice of all the
colossal fortune that had been placed
within his reach by the marriage and
declining to return to his bride. who.
on June IS, 1914, brought a suit in
the German courts against him on
the ground of "incompatibility," "un-
bearable self1shness" and masculine
Incidence" The outbreak of the war
Immediately afterward rendered 1t
impossible for Jack Milford to con-
test the charges. But after the lady
had taken advantage of the decree
which she had thus obtained fin Ber-
lin to contract in March, 1920. n mar
riage with Richard Won kuhlmann,
he sued as an Engiishman, in the
charge of bigamy and adultery with
Won Kuhlmann. He. however. was
non suited on the ground that, his
marriage having been contracted in
Germany, where he was domiciled at
the time, the German courts had suf-
on charges that. while admissible in
Germany, would not be recognized
in English Jurisprudence. Last win
ter Nine. Won kuhlmann, nee Fuld,
bore Won Kuhlmann a son to supple
ment the family left to him by HIS
Now the fair lady, whose good
looks are undeniable. but whose
temper is said to be extraordinarily
trying, Is about to embark upon a
with young Max Won Goldschmidt
Baron William Rothschild of Frank
fort-on- the -Main, whose wife was
such an intimate friend of old Prin-.
cess Bismarck. Young Goldschmidt
Rothschild was attached to the Ger
man embassy, In London in an hon.
orary capacity. in the year immedi-
ately preceding the great war. and
as such associated with Won Kuhl-
mann. But he frequented by prefer
ence the young Grand Duke of Neck
lenburg- -Strelitz, who afterward COM
mitted suicide, or else was mys-
teriously murdered in Germany dur
ing the war. and spent much money
in reckless hospitality in the MAIN
tenance of steam yachts, race horses
and country houses in England,
without making much social headway
and rather kept at distance by the
English Rothschilds.: