Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau

Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau
Foreign Minister of Germany
In office 13 December 1918 – 20 June 1919
President	Friedrich Ebert
Chancellor	Philipp Scheidemann (Ministerpräsident)
Preceded by	Wilhelm Solf (Imperial Germany) Council of the People's Deputies
Succeeded by	Hermann Müller
German Ambassador to the Soviet Union
In office November 1922 – 8 September 1928
Preceded by	Kurt Wiedenfeld
Succeeded by	Herbert von Dirksen
Personal details
Born	(1869-05-29)29 May 1869 Schleswig, Kingdom of Prussia
Died	8 September 1928(1928-09-08) (aged 59) Berlin, Free State of Prussia, Weimar Republic
Political party	none
Profession	Politician, diplomat

Ulrich Karl Christian Graf^{[notes 1]} von Brockdorff-Rantzau (29 May 1869 – 8 September 1928) was a German diplomat who became the first Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic. In that capacity, he led the German delegation at the Paris Peace Conference but resigned over the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. He was also the German ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1928.
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