Rudolf Friedrich Le Maistre

Rudolf Friedrich Le Maistre (10 February 1835 - 1 April 1903) was a Saxon and Imperial German diplomat.

Early life Le Maistre was born in Dresden in the Kingdom of Saxony on 10 February 1835. He was a son of diplomat Johann Friedrich Le Maistre (1790–1874) and Elisabeth Helene Benecke von Gröditzberg (b. 1810), who married in 1833.

Career Le Maistre was a Privy Legation Councilor. On 5 March 1869, King Frederick William IV appointed the Royal Saxon legation councilor Le Maistre as Minister-Resident of the North German Confederation to the governments of the Argentine Confederation and the Republic of Uruguay. Le Maistre presented his letter of accreditation to the government of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento in Argentina on 5 March 1869 and to the government of Lorenzo Batlle y Grau in Uruguay on 22 March 1869. From 1887 to 1890, he was the Envoy of the German Empire in Athens.

Personal life

Le Maistre died in Dresden on 1 April 1903 and was buried at Trinity Cemetery there.