Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein

Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein studied at University of Göttingen, Leipzig University and Heidelberg University. The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are German legation in Beijing. Positions recorded include ambassador and ambassador of the German Reich to the Chinese Empire. Distinctions recorded are Order of the Crown, honorary citizenship and Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class.

Mumm studied law at Göttingen University and entered the diplomatic service afterwards.

He served in London (1885), Washington D.C. (1888), Bucharest (1892–93), Rome (1893–94), Luxembourg (1898) and again in Washington (1899). During his years in China, he dealt with the Boxer Rebellion and signed The Boxer Protocol on September 7, 1901, on behalf of Germany, maintained an extraordinarily good relation with Empress Dowager Cixi, but also he took many pictures of China in the 1900s as an amateur photographer. From 1909-11, he was ambassador of the German Reich in Japan. He retired in 1911, but was reactivated 1914 in Berlin. In March through November 1918, he represented the German Reich in Kiev.

• Illustration — Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1903) by Philip de László Mumm von Schwarzenstein was ennobled as a Freiherr (Baron) in the 1903 Birthday Honours list of Emperor Wilhelm II. In 1911, he bought and restored a medieval castle in the small village of Portofino, Italy, where he eventually retired in 1920 with his Scottish wife Jeannie von Mumm. During the Second World War his then-widow Jeannie is now considered "the saviour" of Portofino because she persuaded Lieutenant Ernst Reimers not to ignite the charges the Germans planned to detonate during their retreat from the village. Baron Mumm von Schwartzenstein died on his Italian estate at Portofino on 10 July 1924.

• Ein Tagebuch in Bildern (1902), private print scanned by Tōyō Bunko exlibris George Ernest Morrison • Kriegslyrik (1914–18) in several volumes printed privately • Mein ligurisches Heim (in Portofino). Mit Freunden für Freunde zusammengestellt und nach eigenen Aufnahmen illustrirt. (private print). Berlin 1915.

The authorities additionally record the heading Philipp Alfons Freiherr Mumm von Schwarzenstein. His recorded language was German. He was the child of Hermann Mumm von Schwarzenstein and Sophie Eugenie von Mumm. He married Jeannie von Mumm.

Alfons Mumm von Schwarzenstein is recorded as having received Order of the Crown, honorary citizenship and Order of the Red Eagle 1st Class.