Clemens von Brentano
Clemens von Brentano di Tremezzo (born July 20, 1886 in Friedberg (Hesse) , † June 20, 1965 in Meran ) was a German diplomat and the first German ambassador to Italy after the Second World War .
Life
He was born as the eldest son of the then lawyer Otto von Brentano di Tremezzo , who later became Minister of Justice in the People's State of Hesse .
After graduating from high school in Offenbach , von Brentano studied law and political science and joined the Bavarian Foreign Service in 1912. During the First World War he was deployed from 1914 to 1918 under the Governors General Moritz von Bissing and Ludwig von Falkenhausen in the General Government of Belgium , then with the German Armistice Commission in Berlin. In 1921 he was finally taken over into the Foreign Service of the German Reich, first as Minister Counselor in Athens and from 1925 to 1929 Counselor of the German Embassy at the Vatican . After the death of Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann , with whom he was friends, he went into temporary retirement in 1929. In 1937 he was given permanent retirement. In the course of the Second World War he was drafted into the IHK in Freiburg in 1943 and was its director until 1946 after the end of the war.
The President of the Baden State Secretariat and later President of Baden, Leo Wohleb, commissioned him in December 1946 to set up and manage the Baden State Chancellery. From 1947 to 1950 he was President of the Baden Red Cross. In July 1950 he was appointed Consul General of the Federal Republic in Italy. On June 1, 1951, he was the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to present the Italian President Luigi Einaudi with his credentials. In the spring of 1957 he retired and moved back to Merano .
His much younger brothers Bernard and Heinrich von Brentano were also prominent figures.
Web link
- Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law (online version)
Awards
- 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1953: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
literature
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brentano, Clemens von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brentano di Tremezzo, Clemens von (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, ambassador to Italy |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Friedberg (Hesse) |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 20, 1965 |
| Place of death | Meran |