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19-476: Kokopo was known as Herbertshöhe ( Herbert's Heights ), named in honour of Herbert , eldest son of German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck , during the German New Guinea administration, which controlled the area between 1884 and formally until 1919. Until 1910, it was the capital of German New Guinea. On Sunday, March 29, 2015, a strong earthquake, of a preliminary magnitude of at least 7.5, which at that time

38-689: A tropical rainforest climate ( Köppen Af ) with heavy rainfall and hot temperatures year-round. The Papua New Guinea Hunters (PNG Hunters) are a rugby league football club based in Kokopo. They were established in 2013 and currently compete in the QRL 's Intrust Super Cup . The Hunters' home ground is Kalabond Oval in Kokopo and their team colours are red, black and gold. Herbert von Bismarck Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand Herbert, Prince of Bismarck (born Nikolaus Heinrich Ferdinand Herbert Graf von Bismarck-Schönhausen ; 28 December 1849 – 18 September 1904)

57-457: A Foreign Office window, to be told he may have hit someone. He replied, "Officials have to be kept in a permanent state of irritation and alarm; the moment that ceases they stop working". On 21 June 1892 in Vienna , he married Countess Marguerite, Countess of Hoyos, a member of the originally Spanish House of Hoyos from Hungary. She herself was half-English and a grand-daughter of Robert Whitehead ,

76-438: A portrait that Wilhelm had given to him after they returned from a state visit to Russia: I beg Your Royal Highness most subserviently graciously to permit me to lay at your feet my deeply reverent and heartfelt thanks for Graciously Granting me the beautiful picture.... Long it is since I have been so joyful as the joy which Your Royal Highness accorded me by granting me the portrait with your very own Highest signature. For me,

95-574: A younger brother, Wilhelm (b. 1852). He fought in the Franco-Prussian War , sustaining a bullet wound through the left leg during a cavalry charge at the Battle of Mars-La-Tour . He joined the diplomatic service in 1874 on his father's wishes. Bismarck attempted to gain influence with the heir to the German throne, Prince Wilhelm , by appealing to his narcissism. In June 1884, he wrote to thank Wilhelm for

114-542: Is initiated. The remains of the former capital Rabaul are located some 20 km (12 mi) to the north-west of Kokopo, when using the Kokopo-Rabaul Highway. There are around 4,000 inhabitants in Rabaul, down from over 17,000 before the latest volcanic eruption. Rabaul Airport (also called "Tokua Airport"), one of Papua New Guinea's largest domestic airports, is located a few kilometres east of Kokopo. Kokopo has

133-605: Is the head of the Federal Foreign Office and a member of the Cabinet of Germany . The current office holder is Annalena Baerbock . Since 1966, the minister for foreign affairs has often also simultaneously held the office of vice-chancellor of Germany . The Foreign Office was established within the North German Confederation in 1870 and its head, first appointed in 1871, had the rank of secretary of state. As

152-698: The Foreign Office in 1885, and the following year, he was appointed the State Secretary for Foreign Affairs . He additionally was appointed Minister of State of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1888. He once said, "My father is the only person who can handle this business" In 1890, when Kaiser Wilhelm II called for the resignation of Otto von Bismarck as Chancellor, Herbert von Bismarck also resigned as State Secretary, despite Wilhelm's attempts to retain him so that his de facto dismissal of his father would "look better in

171-551: The 1926 Nobel Peace Prize for his work for reconciliation between Germany and France. The foreign office remained relatively unaffected by the establishment of the Nazi regime in 1933, as minister Konstantin von Neurath , appointed in 1932, remained in office until 1938; however, the office was increasingly marginalised in actual policy-making and with the replacement of Neurath by Ribbentrop lost any independent standing. After World War II , two separate German states emerged in 1949,

190-470: The German constitution of 1871 installed the chancellor as the sole responsible government minister and since the Chancellor generally also held the position of foreign minister of Prussia , the secretary of state fulfilled a more subject role as an assistant to the chancellor, acting largely to draft correspondence rather than to actually direct the formation of foreign policy. This was especially true during

209-410: The chancellor. After a succession of short-lived ministers, Gustav Stresemann , leader of the small National-liberal German People's Party , held the office of foreign minister in successive cabinets from 1923 to his death in 1929. His long term gave stability to Germany's foreign policy and improved the minister's position towards the relatively weak and short-lived chancellors. Stresemann was awarded

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228-578: The chancellorships of Otto von Bismarck (1871–1890) and Bernhard von Bülow (1900–1909), both of whom had considerable prior experience with foreign affairs, while secretaries at other times wielded more influence over the foreign policy. In 1919, the Weimar Republic elevated the head of the foreign office to the position of foreign minister responsible for his department. As governments were now formed by parties entering coalitions with each other, individual ministers also gained independence towards from

247-703: The democratic Federal Republic of Germany in the West and the communist-ruled German Democratic Republic in the East. While the Soviet Union ostensibly restored political sovereignty to its satellite and allowed for a Foreign Ministry of the GDR , West Germany's sovereignty was officially curtailed by the Western powers, especially in the field of foreign policy. In 1951 the Foreign Office

266-458: The eyes of the world". Bismarck had wanted to marry Princess Elisabeth zu Carolath-Beuthen in 1881, but his father would not allow it, as she was a Catholic divorcée and was ten years older than Herbert. The Chancellor pressured his son with tears, blackmail and threats to disinherit him by getting Kaiser Wilhelm I to change the primogeniture statutes. That experience left Herbert a very bitter and alcoholic man. He once shot five bullets through

285-485: The inventor of the torpedo . They had five children: He was at his father's bedside when the latter died on 30 July 1898, at 10:57 p.m. He died in Friedrichsruh . The capital of the German colonial administration of German New Guinea was called Herbertshöhe (now Kokopo ) in his honor. Foreign Minister of Germany The federal minister for foreign affairs (German: Bundesminister des Auswärtigen )

304-625: The words beneath the picture render it the most valuable possession which I own, and I cannot find words to express how happy Your Royal Highness has made me. I am truly overwhelmed by the Good Grace of Your Royal Highness.... The few days which to my greatest joy I was able to spend directly at the service of Your Royal Highness will always be among the loveliest in my life and... it will be my sole ambition for all time to stand prepared to receive Your Highest orders and to serve you with all my meagre powers. Bismarck became Under-Secretary and acting head of

323-656: Was a German politician, who served as Foreign Secretary from 1886 to 1890. His political career was closely tied to that of his father, Otto von Bismarck , and he left office a few days after his father's dismissal. He succeeded his father as the 2nd Prince of Bismarck in 1898. He was born in Berlin and died in Friedrichsruh. Herbert von Bismarck born in Berlin , the oldest son of Otto von Bismarck and his wife, Johanna, née von Puttkamer . He had an older sister, Marie (b. 1848), and

342-509: Was reestablished in West Germany, but Chancellor Konrad Adenauer was required to hold the office of Foreign Minister until the Western powers restored sovereignty to West Germany in 1955. Then, Heinrich von Brentano di Tremezzo succeeded as foreign minister in 1955. In 1990, the GDR ceased to exist as a separate state and its territory was reunited with West Germany. From the 1966 Grand Coalition government of Kurt Georg Kiesinger onwards,

361-469: Was the largest earthquake of 2015 , was recorded near Kokopo, and a tsunami warning was issued. This was surpassed a month later by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake , which measured a magnitude 7.8. In 2015, a research and conservation project was suggested to study and protect spinner dolphins living around Kokopo beach, as this population may be threatened if construction of a new port for larger shipping lanes

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