Fridolin Marinus Knobel

Fridolin Marinus (Frits) Knobel (18 May 1857 – 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 a 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.

From 1905 until 1913 Knobel was Consul general in Pretoria, from 1913 until 1918 a liberal member of parliament[3] and from 1920 until 1922 a merchant in Singapore and the Dutch Indies.

Fridolin Marinus Knobel, 1903
Fridolin Marinus Knobel, the Dutch Consul-General in Tehran , on his horse. Stands beside him is his servant Reza, later to be known as Reza Shah Pahlavi (the king of Iran), when he served as a horse groom in the Netherlands's embassy in Tehran