15 Facts About Rudolf Nadolny

Rudolf Nadolny was a military intelligence officer under German Foreign Office cover.

Rudolf Nadolny was the German Ambassador to Turkey and the Soviet Union and the head of the German delegation at the World Disarmament Conference.

Rudolf Nadolny passed his Abitur at the gymnasium of Rastenburg in 1892 and studied law at the University of Konigsberg.

Rudolf Nadolny joined the German diplomatic service in 1902 and was deployed in St Petersburg in 1903 to 1907 in which he witnessed the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Russo-Japanese War.

In 1915, Rudolf Nadolny shipped cultures of anthrax and glanders, a horse disease that is deadly to humans, to the German embassy in Romania to use them to target animals traded with the Russian Empire.

Rudolf Nadolny claimed claiming that Czechs were only relatives of Prussians.

In November 1928, after the death of Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau, the German ambassador in Moscow, Rudolf Nadolny applied for this post, but his efforts were vetoed by Gustav Stresemann, who appointed Herbert von Dirksen instead.

From February 1932 to October 1933, Rudolf Nadolny was the head of the German delegation at the World Disarmament Conference in Geneva.

Ultimately, Neurath was chosen by Schleicher to be the foreign minister in the "Cabinet of the President's Friends", as the Papen government was known, and he never forgot that Rudolf Nadolny was disappointed that he did not get the portfolio that he had greatly wanted.

Rudolf Nadolny became the German ambassador to the Soviet Union in October 1933.

Rudolf Nadolny believed in 1933 that it was feasible for Nazi Germany to annex Polish territories in Pomerania in exchange for promising Lithuanian Memel to the Poles.

However, even Rudolf Nadolny admitted that a totally-friendly relationship with Russia was impossible.

The meeting, which was described as a "stormy one", ended with Hitler declaring the conversation finished; Rudolf Nadolny answered that "the conversation had just begun".

Rudolf Nadolny resigned on 16 June 1934 and worked as an administrator of an estate.

Burkard Rudolf Nadolny was their son and Sten Rudolf Nadolny their grandson.