Hellmuth Lucius von Stoedten

Hellmuth Eduard Ferdinand Lucius von Stoedten, (14 July 1869, Estate Klein Ballhausen, Thuringia - 14 November 1934, Berlin)[1] was a German diplomat during WWI.

His father was Robert Lucius, Prussian Minister of Agriculture, and a confidant of Otto von Bismarck.

[3] In addition to other embassies in Stockholm he was largely responsible for the contacts with Alexander Protopopov, and the Russian opposition and revolutionaries.

Together, they were the parents of two daughter: Hellmuth and Bertha divorced in 1907, and his ex-wife married Adalbert von Francken-Sierstorpff in 1912.

Rainer Maria Rilke dedicated Lucius von Stoedten in 1922 an opportunity poem that led Martin Heidegger to the question: "Why poet?