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Speck Von Sternburg

HER- MANN, BARON, a German diplomat, born at Leeds, England, in 1852. He studied military and naval science and international law, and served in the German army in the Franco-Prussian War. He was from 1885 to 1890 military attaché at Washington. In 1891 he became Secretary to the etary to the Legation in China. In the year following he served at Buenos Aires and at Belgrade, Serbia.

He was appointed First Secretary to the German Embassy at Washington in 1898, and this was followed in 1900 by his appointment as Consul General for British India and Ceylon. He became German Ambassador to the United States in 1903. Largely through his efforts tariff arrangements were perfected between Germany and the United States, in 1906-7. He died in 1908.