Gebhardt von Walther
Gebhardt von Walther (born December 19, 1902 in Düsseldorf , † November 17, 1982 in Cologne ) was a German diplomat during the Weimar Republic , National Socialism and the old Federal Republic .
biography
After his studies and doctorate , Walther was employed in the diplomatic service of the Foreign Office in 1929 , to which he belonged until the end of the Second World War . On March 1, 1939, he joined the NSDAP .
In 1940 Gebhardt was consul general of the German embassy in Moscow and was a member of the German-Soviet refugee commission established as a result of the Hitler-Stalin pact with the official designation "German control and passage commission for refugees from the Soviet area", which organized the population exchange. The Eastern European historian Claudia Weber judges that Gebhardt was "the third relevant commissioner" after the commission chairman Otto Wächter , SS leader and influential governor of the Krakow district and his deputy, the resettlement expert Hans Flade .
Walther was German consul in Tripoli in Italian Libya from late 1941 until the city was conquered by British troops in January 1943 .
After the end of the war he worked as a commercial clerk and returned to the diplomatic service in 1951.
After several years at the Foreign Office in Bonn , he became ambassador to Mexico in 1956 . In 1958 he moved to Brazil as ambassador . He returned to Europe in 1959 and succeeded Herbert Blankenhorn as ambassador to NATO in Paris .
As part of a change, he was accredited as ambassador to Turkey in 1962 . There he was the successor of the retirement came Georg von Broich-Oppert while Wilhelm Grewe succeeded him as ambassador to NATO.
Most recently he was the successor to Horst Groepper from 1966 to 1968 as ambassador to the USSR . In 1968 he retired and was replaced as ambassador by Helmut Allardt . Subsequently he was Executive Vice President of the German Society for Foreign Policy eV (DGAP) .
literature
- Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 176 f.
- Hans Booms, Ulrich Enders, Konrad Reiser: The cabinet minutes of the federal government. Volume 8: 1955. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56280-0 , p. 725, footnote 94 ( digitized version )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Claudia Weber: The Pact. Stalin, Hitler and the story of a murderous alliance 1939–1941 . CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73531-8 , pp. 153–157.
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Herbert Blankenhorn |
Permanent representative to the NATO Council of the Federal Republic of Germany 1959–1962 |
Wilhelm Grewe |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Walther, Gebhardt von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 19, 1902 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dusseldorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 1982 |
| Place of death | Cologne |