JAGOW, GOTTLIEB VON German Foreign secretary at the outbreak of the World War, was born on June 22, 1863 in Berlin. He entered the diplomatic service in 1895 and after having been Prussian minister at Munich, German am bassador at Rome and German minister at The Hague, was appointed in 1913 foreign secretary. He played an active part in the negotiations preceding the outbreak of the World War, and was, in particular, concerned in the German relations with Austria, having been the first member of the Imperial Government in Berlin to become acquainted with the terms of the Austrian ulti matum to Serbia. He wrote a defence of German policy entitled
Ursachen and Ausbruch des Weltkrieges (1959).