Fridolin Marinus Knobel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetFridolin Marinus Knobel
Dutch politician
Date of Birth: 31-May-1857
Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Date of Death: 16-Oct-1933
Profession: politician, diplomat
Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Fridolin Marinus Knobel
- Fridolin Marinus (Frits) Knobel (Amsterdam 18 May 1857- Berlin 16 October 1933) was a Dutch diplomat and politician. He was born in Amsterdam to parents who owned a confectionary and lunch room in the Kalverstraat.
- After graduating from secondary school he worked at his uncle's cigar factory for some time and as tobacco trader on the Amsterdam exchange.
- In 1879 he took his consular exams and was admitted as a student-consul at the Foreign department and was stationed in Berlin from 1882 to 1883.
- He became vice-consul in Saint Petersburg in 1883, to be appointed Consul General in Tehran in 1889.
- He stayed in Tehran until 1895 and briefly was Consul general in Beijing.
- In 1902 he received a new appointment as Consul general in Tehran.
- In 1903 Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar presented him with a beautiful grey.
- A very special photo of Knobel on this horse was published some years later.
- Next to the horse stands his servant Reza, later to be known as Reza Shah Pahlavi.
- In 1904 his government ordered his return to The Hague.
- From 1905 until 1913 Knobel was Consul general in Pretoria, from 1913 until 1918 a liberal member of parliament and from 1920 until 1922 a merchant in Singapore and the Dutch Indies.
- In 1923 he again joined the foreign service and was appointed Dutch consul and in 1928 Consul general in Leipzig.
- In 1933, representing the Netherlands he followed the trial against Marinus van der Lubbe.
- He did not witness the conclusion of this trial, as he died on October 16, 1933, of a heart attack.
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