Werner von Rheinbaben

Werner Karl Ferdinand Freiherr von Rheinbaben (19 November 1878 – 14 January 1975) was a German diplomat and author.

[2] He later wrote of the 1914 July Crisis that it was Wilhelm von Stumm who downplayed the possibility of British intervention and strongly advised the Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg to act quickly.

[3] After the First World War, Stumm told Rheinbaben: "I erred in 1914 and advised Bethmann falsely".

[1] He was a close political associate of Gustav Stresemann[5] and wrote a sympathetic biography of him in 1928.

[6] In 1942 and 1943 Rheinbaben worked in Portugal on matters relating to prisoners of war for the German Red Cross.