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Biographical Note
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The author of the following pages, Karl Max, PrinceLichnowsky, is a member of a family which holds estatesboth in German and Austrian Silesia, and has anhereditary seat in the Upper House of the PrussianDiet. The father of the present Prince and his predecessorin the title was a Prussian cavalry general, who,at the end of his life, sat for some years in the Reichstagas a member of the Free Conservative Party.
His uncle, Prince Felix, was elected in 1848 to representRatibor in the German National Assembly atFrankfort-on-Main; he was an active member of theConservative wing, and during the September rising,while riding with General Auerswald in the neighbourhoodof the city, was attacked and murdered by themob.
The present Prince, after serving in the Prussianarmy, in which he holds the rank of Major, entered thediplomatic service. He was in 1885 for a short time attachedto the German Embassy in London, and afterwardsbecame Councillor of Embassy in Vienna. From1899 to 1904 he was employed in the German ForeignOffice, and received the rank and title of Minister Plenipotentiary.
In 1904 he retired to his Silesian estates, and, as hestates, lived for eight years the life of a country gentleman,but read industriously and published occasionalpolitical articles. He himself recounts the circumstancesin which he was appointed Ambassador in London onthe