German Foreign Minister (1913-16) who became pessimistic about the War's outcome after the First Battle of the Marne (Sept 1914). He was later dismissed for his opposition to unrestricted submarine warfare. Jagow had been one of Kaiser Wilhelm II's fraternity brothers in the Bonn Borussen and later became envoy to Luxembourg (1907) and Italy (1909). After the War, von Jagow left political life and penned his memoirs which concerned the causes behind the outbreak of the First World War. Von Jagow died in Potsdam on 11 January 1935.