Rudolf Leitner

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Rudolf Leitner (born July 12, 1891 in Linz , Austria-Hungary ; † February 28, 1947 in the Sachsenhausen special camp ) was an Austro-Hungarian and German diplomat.

Life

Leitner came from a Catholic family. He attended schools in Linz, Szeged , Prague , Geneva and Trieste . After graduating from high school in 1909, he studied law at Karl Ferdinand University . In 1910 he became active in the Corps Suevia Prague . He passed the legal history, the judicial and on October 15, 1913 the political science state examination. On May 4, 1914, he joined the Austrian administrative service and in April 1916 the Austrian foreign service. On February 6, 1917, he passed the consular attaché examination at the Consular Academy in Vienna . Before the end of the war he became the Austrian consul in Dresden .

He was drafted into the Foreign Service of the German Reich on December 5, 1921, and was employed in Departments V (Law) and IIb (Austrian Successor States). On December 18, 1922, he passed the diplomatic-consular examination. As Vice Consul he came to the Consulate General in Chicago on November 24, 1923. From 22 April 1927, he was Secretary of Legation at the German Embassy in Washington, DC He was on December 24, 1928 Legation II. Class, and on 11 July 1931 Counselor appointed. On May 18, 1936, he took over in the Foreign Office as a lecturer in the Legation Council and headed the North America department. Leitner became a member of the NSDAP on July 1, 1936 . Appointed envoy in Pretoria on October 22, 1937 , he handed over the credentials on November 24, 1937. Two years later , he returned to Karl Ritter's office. On November 25, 1944, at the age of 53, he was put into temporary retirement.

Leitner was married to Johanna born on May 18, 1918. Geissler. The marriage resulted in the children Adelheid (1919), Hubert (1921) and Carlotta (1927). Carlotta was a religious sister of the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus (Sacré-Cœur) . She died in 2015 at the age of 87.

See also

literature

  • Leitner, Rudolf , in: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger (edit.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 , Volume 3, L – R. ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , p. 46

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 118/115.
  2. ↑ a b c Foreign Office, Political Archive
  3. ^ Sr. Carlotta Leitner RSCJ (Archdiocese of Vienna)
personal data
SURNAME Leitner, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian and German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 1947
Place of death Sachsenhausen special camp