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Gisbert von Romberg

German minister in Bern during the First World War.

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Dates
1866–1939
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Q215679

Romberg took Fritz Platten’s request in Bern and urged Berlin to accept it: see the sealed train.

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  • Lenin's sealed train German minister in Bern: took Platten’s request and urged approval Primary record 1
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  1. 1866–1939 Gisbert von Romberg
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  1. Germany and the Revolution in Russia, 1915-1918: Documents from the Archives of the German Foreign Ministry, Oxford University Press, 1958. Primary record
    The Minister in Bern to the Foreign Ministry. Platten came to see Romberg as the representative of the Russian revolutionaries.
    Since their immediate departure would be greatly in our interests, I urgently recommend that permission should be granted at once, accepting the conditions laid down.
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