Mikhail Taube was an employee for whom from 1937 to 1938?
Mikhail Taube Baron Mikhail Alexandrovich Taube ( May 15 , 1869 , Pavlovsk , Russian Empire – November 29 , 1961 ; Paris , France ) was a famous Russian international lawyer , statesman and legal historian . Being a Catholic converted from Russian Orthodoxy , Taube came from an old Swedish-German family von Taube , known from the 13th century , one of the branches of Baltic Germans in the service of the Russian throne . Family . Taubes father was Alexander Ferdinandovich , a graduate of the Petersburg State Transport University and his mother was Anna ( born Butorova ) . His brother,Alexander : a Lieutenant-General of the Russian Imperial Army , who after the revolution in Russia , being popular among soldier , was elected to represent them in local government . In 1917 Bolsheviks came to power in St.Petersburg and Moscow , eventually the central authorities have extended their power to Siberia where Alexander Taube was located . The next year , in 1919 Soviet Red forces were defeated by White Volunteer Army . General Alexander Taube was imprisoned and under investigation when he died of typhus in the Ekaterinburg prison . The other brothers : Colonel Jacob murdered during an uprising in St . Petersburg,1918 ; Colonel Boris served in Volunteer ( White ) Army under general Miller , emigrated and lived in France ; State Counsellor Sergei , a railway engineer , remained in the Soviet Union and was recognized as a distinguished engineer . Baron Michael Taube has married in 1897 , to Raisa Vladimirovna Rogal-Katchura , from whom he had three daughters and a son . His immediate family have initially emigrated to Sweden later lived in France . Education . Graduated from St . Petersburg High School ( 1887 , gold medal ) and St . Petersburg State University , Law Faculty , 1891 , thesis : The reception of Roman law in the West . Continued his work at the university starting December 1 , 1891 , to prepare for a professorship , Department of International Law . Taube was a pupil of the famous international lawyer , Professor Friedrich Martens . Legal scholarship . On May 28 , 1896 he received degree of Master of International Law ( The history of modern international law . ( Middle Ages ) . T . I . Introduction and part of the total . SPb. , 1894 ) and November 29 , 1899 received degree of Doctor in International Law ( The history of modern international law . ( Middle Ages ) . T.II . part : Principles of Peace and Law in International Conflicts of the Middle Ages . Kharkov , 1899 ) . From January 1 , 1897 , he taught at the University of Kharkov , from 1903 to 1911 at University of St . Petersburg ( replaced his teacher at the Department Friedrich Martens ) , from 1909 to 1917 at Imperial School of Jurisprudence . Taube was also a founding member of the Russian Society of Maritime Law ( 1905 ) . Diplomat . From January 2 , 1892 until 1917 , he was attached to the Russian Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs . Taube was Deputy Director of the Second Department of the MFA ( from 1905 ) , then Adviser ( from 1907 ) and permanent member of the Council of the Ministry . From 1904 to 1905 he was Russian legal representative at the Paris international commission of inquiry recarding Dogger Bank incident , where he , along with Admiral Fyodor Dubasov , was instrumental in the successful defense of Russian interests in this complex case . From 1908 to 1909 he represented Russia at a conference on maritime law in London . On November 18 , 1909 Taube was Russias representative to the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague . He worked on numerous explanations , helped prepare and provide advice on international law . In 1914 , a few weeks before the start of the First World War , persuaded the Russian government to withdraw from the German banks . This included withdrawal of Russian gold from Germany to Russia . Statesman . On April 22 , 1911 , he was Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Empire . Taube was a close associate of the minister Lev Kasso and supported conservative political views . During Kasso illness , for about a year he acted as Minister of Education . After the death of Casso , from October 19 , 1914 to January 11 , 1915 , he served as Minister of Education of Russia . On many occasions he spoke in the State Duma ( Russian Empire ) , for example on the allocation of the Kingdom of Poland in the Chelm province in 1912 , as well as other topics . He participated in drafting the law on the universal primary education in the Russian Empire . On February 11 , 1915 , he was appointed a senator , privy councilor . On January 1 , 1917 , Taube became a member of the State Council ( Russian Empire ) , a member of the Right wing of the Council . The historian . He served as a member of the Imperial Russian Historical Society ( 1912 ) , the Imperial Society of Zealots in the historical education sector ( 1914 ) , an honorary member of the Moscow Archaeological Institute ( 1912 ) , Vitebsk ( 1909 ) , Tula ( 1913 ) and Pskov ( 1916 ) Provincial Scientific Archive Commission and Pskov Archeological Society ( 1916 ) . Professionally engaged in genealogy , Taube was the author of studies on the history of labor . He also published several books , one of them : Ikskul family genealogy . He was one of the main developers of the Charter of the Russian Genealogical Society ( 1897 a founding member ) . On March 15 , 1914 , he was elected vice-chairman of the Society . On May 14 , 1905 Taube became member of Historic Genealogical Society in Moscow . Author of scientific papers on the origin of the Russian state and the baptism of Rus , Russia and the relationship with Catholic Church . Cultural activities . Mikhail Taube was a member of the Saint Petersburg Philosophical Society ( 1906 ) , an honorary member of the Society of Classical Philology and Pedagogy in Saint Petersburg ( 1913 ) . In exile , he published a collection of poems The visions and thoughts . Taube was also a memoirist and actively preparing to sign the International Covenant on Cultural and historical values ( Roerich Pact and Banner of Peace ) in the late 1920s early 1930s in Europe and the United States , which was signed in the United States on April 15 , 1935 , and based in The Hague . Convention of 1954 , signed by the participants focused on the protection of cultural property during armed conflict . Emigration . After the Russian revolution , since 1917 Taube lived in exile , and was a member of the Special Committee for Russia in Finland ( 1918 ) . While in Finland , he became Minister of Foreign Affairs within a government in exile under the leadership of Alexander Trepov ( 1918 ) . Then lived in Sweden ( he lectured on the history of international relations and international law at Uppsala University ) , and Germany . From 1928 he lived in Paris , where he taught at a branch of the Russian Institute at the Faculty of Law , University of Paris and the European Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace . He was a member of the Scientific Council of Russian Scientific Institute in Berlin , and has lectured at various universities in Germany and Belgium . Taube continued his study of international law , being a member of the Academy of International Law in The Hague . From 1932 to 1937 he was a Professor of the University of Münster ( Germany ) . Member of the Supreme Council and the Monarchist Society Icon in Paris . In the 1930s , Taube was a legal adviser to the Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich , Grand Duke of Russia . He participated in the development of a new charter of the imperial family in the version which followed the Grand Duke Cyril Vladimirovich , Grand Duke of Russia and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia . On December 1 , 1951 Taube took part in the Central Commission for genealogy establishing measures and legal documentation , court estate arbitration , general registration of noble families , the Russian edition of the lists of titled and untitled nobility , focusing on the history and genealogy of the Baltic and Russian nobility . Taube was also a member of the Russian Historical Genealogical Society in America . Catholicism . Mikhail von Taube was a parishioner of the Russian Greek Catholic church of the Holy Trinity in Paris and a member of the Russian apostolate , publishing his works in the bulletin Our parish . Facts . Michael Taube was an official reviewer for dissertations of Andrey Mandelstam . Contributions . - History of the Birth of Contemporary International Law , Vol . 1 ( St . Petersburg , 1894 ) ; Vol . 2 ( Kharkov , 1899 ) ( История зарождения современного международного права . том I , СПб. , 1894 ; том II , Харьков , 1899. ) - Christianity and the Organization of International Peace , 2nd ed. , Moscow , 1905 ( Христианство и организация международного мира . 2-е изд. , М. , 1905. ) - The System of International Law , St . Petersburg , 1909 ( Система междугосударственного права . СПб , 1909. ) - Восточный вопрос и австро-русская политика в первой половине XIX столетия . Пг. , 1916 . ( The Eastern Question and Austrian-Russian Politics in the First Half of the 19th Century , Prague , 1916 ) - Вечный мир или вечная война ? ( Мысли о Лиге наций ) . Берлин , 1922 . ( Perpetual Peace or Perpetual War : Thoughts on the League of Nations , Berlin , 1922 ) - Этюды об историческом развитии международного права в Восточной Европе . 1926 ( на французском языке ) . ( Episodes from Historical Development of International Law in Eastern Europe , 1926 ( in French ) - Аграфа : О незаписанных в Евангелии изречениях Иисуса Христа . Варшава , 1936 . – 150 с . ( также : М. : Крутицкое Патриаршее Подворье , 2007 ) . - Аграфа у Отцов Церкви . Варшава , 1937 . - Аграфа в древнехристианских апокрифах . Париж , 1947 . - Аграфа в иудейских и магометанских писаниях . Париж , 1951 . - Император Павел I – великий магистр Мальтийского ордена . Париж , 1955 ( на французском языке ) . - «Зарницы» : воспоминания о трагической судьбе предреволюционной России ( 1900–1917 ) . М. , 2006 . - Michael v . Taube , Der Grossen Katastrophe Entgegen,verlag von K.F.Koehlers,Leipzig,1937