Gustav Kreitner

Gustav Ritter von Kreitner (2 August 1847 – 20 November 1893) was a Silesian-Austrian military geographer, traveller and diplomat.

In 1877 he joined a 3-year research expedition sponsored by Count Bela Szechenyi into India, Java, China and Japan.

In 1884 the Austrian government assigned him the position of consul in Yokohama[3] and he was able to enhance trade relations between Austria and Japan.

Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria gave orders for the cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth to make an emergency stop at Yokohama to let Kreitner's family return to Vienna.

His widow remarried in 1917 to diplomat Friedrich Wiesner who was politically active and was sent to Buchenwald concentration camp in 1938 due to his Jewish origin.