Jochen von Münch-Bellinghausen

  

Freiherr Jochen von Münch-Bellinghausen
Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the United Commonwealth
In office 18 December 1912 – 4 January 1919
Preceded by	Rudolf Graf von Clary und Aldringen
Succeeded by	None
Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sierra
In office 12 October 1904 – 18 December 1912
Preceded by	Kajetan Freiherr von Szentgyörgy
Succeeded by	Ludwig Graf von Call zu Rosenburg und Kulmbach
Personal details
Born	(1867-03-13)13 March 1867 Vienna, Austria-Hungary (now Austria)
Died	April 1, 1958(1958-04-01) (aged 91) Vienna, Austria
Profession	Diplomat

Jochen Freiherr (Baron) von Münch-Bellinghausen (13 March 1867 – 1 April 1958) was an Austro-Hungarian nobleman and diplomat. He was last ambassador of Austria-Hungary to the United Commonwealth before the Continental Revolutionary War and the Austro-Hungarian War disrupted their diplomatic relations.

Life

He was born on 13 March 1867 in Vienna to a noble family and joined the diplomatic corps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1889. Münch-Bellinghausen studied at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, where he learned to speak fluent English, French, Turkish, and Italian. From 1890 to 1894 he was a secretary at the Austro-Hungarian consulate in Aleppo, Ottoman Syria, and from 1894 to 1897 he was a counselor at the legation in Dresden, Saxony. He became the Austro-Hungarian vice-consul in New York City, United Commonwealth, from 1897 to 1900. After this, Münch-Bellinghausen became the Minister Resident to Brazoria until 1904, a post that was considered unimportant in the Imperial Foreign Ministry. Still, it gave him the reputation of an expert in Anglo-American affairs.

In October 1904 he was appointed as Austro-Hungarian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Sierra, which he held until December 1912. During that time, Münch-Bellinghausen opened an Austro-Hungarian consulate in San Francisco City. In 1912 he was appointed Ambassador to the United Commonwealth. Münch-Bellinghausen remained in the post until 1919, when the United Commonwealth collapsed into the Continental Revolutionary War while a war broke out in Austria-Hungary. After the end of the Habsburg monarchy, he joined the new Austrian foreign service. From 1922 to 1927 he was the Austrian Ambassador to Bulgaria, and from 1927 he was reassigned to Denmark as ambassador until retiring from the diplomatic service in 1935, during Great War I.

In a state of semi-retirement, he worked as a professor at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna until 1941.

Titles

He held the title of Freiherr (Baron).