Alfred Pelldram

In 1876, Pelldram entered the service of the Imperial Foreign Office and a year later was posted to the Consulate-General in Odessa, Russian Empire and not long after as a Vice-Consul at the German Embassy in St. Petersburg under Ambassador Hans Lothar von Schweinitz. In 1881 Pelldram was sent to China to serve as Consul in Tientsin and then to Canton and Hong Kong in 1885.^[2] In 1886 Pelldram was sent to Cairo as Consul-General and then Consul for Caucasia and Transcaucasia at Tiflis in 1887.

In 1888 arrived in the Colony of New South Wales to serve as Consul-General of Germany for Australia based in Sydney, with additional responsibilities for New Zealand and Fiji.^[3] Pelldram was well receivedin the colony, with the Sydney Mail later noting: "In Herr Peldram we have a man of ' marked importance and ability,' and, as the Iron Cross conferred upon him testifies, of much higher qualities than the authority quoted laid down as a sine qua non."^[1] Pelldram served as acting-Consul for Austria-Hungary in 1893 and 1894 and consequently hosted Archduke Franz Ferdinand on his visit to Sydney in May 1893 on board the SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth.^[4] Pelldram also served as the Acting Consular Agent for Italy.^[5] Throughout his time in Sydney, Pelldram was assisted by the German Consul in Sydney, Carl Ludwig Sahl, who often officiated in his absence. When Sahl died in early 1897 Pelldram officiated at his funeral.^[6] In August 1897 Pelldram departed Sydney to take up an appointment as Consul-General in Antwerp.^[7]

In 1900 Pelldram was appointed as the German Resident Minister for Haiti in Port-au-Prince and in 1903 took up his final appointment as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Venezuela in Caracas. Serving until 1906, Pelldram, in ill health returned to Germany and died in Berlin on 22 February 1906.^[8]

• Iron Cross, Second Class (1870).^[1]

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by –	German Consul in Tientsin 1881–1885	Succeeded by –
Preceded by Gustav Travers	Consul-General of Germany for Australia 1888–1897	Succeeded by Peter Kempermann
Preceded by Christian Gustav Michahelles	Resident Minister of Germany to Haiti 1900–1903	Succeeded by Eugen von Zimmerer
Preceded by Otto Ludwig Schmidt-Leda	German Minister to Venezuela 1903–1906	Succeeded by Edwin Freiherr von Seckendorff