Alexander Bogs

Alexander Bogs (born June 4, 1896 in Berlin , † March 21, 1989 in Quillota , Chile ) was a German diplomat during the Nazi era .

Life

After attending school, which he graduated from secondary school in 1912, Bogs initially pursued a commercial activity. From 1914 he took part in the First World War as an infantryman , in which he was taken prisoner by the French in November 1914. After his return from captivity, Bogs belonged to the troops in Berlin under Walther von Lüttwitz and was involved in the suppression of the Spartacus uprising in January 1919 .

In the following years he earned his living as a foreign language correspondent and authorized signatory at the piano factory Bogs & Voigt. The latter activity earned him the nickname Piano Agent in the Scandinavian press in later years .

On March 1, 1930, Bogs, who had previously belonged to the DNVP , joined the NSDAP ( membership number 207.624). For the party, he took over the position of a representative for the Scandinavian press in the years before the National Socialist “ seizure of power ”.

On February 1, 1933, Bogs joined the press department of the Reich government as protégé Hermann Görings , which was part of the Foreign Office and in which he worked as press officer for Nordic affairs in Section IV of the Scandinavian countries. In 1935 he was transferred to the German embassy in Oslo as a press adviser . Subsequent to assignments in the Latin America Department of the Foreign Office and at the Consulate General Valparaíso , Bogs served as Consul General in Malmö from November 1938 to October 1939 .

Bogs had been a member of the SS since April 4, 1934 (membership number 180.139), in which he was promoted to SS-Sturmbannführer in September 1939 because of his "proven commitment to the SD and the SS" .

After the beginning of the war he worked at the Consulate General in Milan , from February 1942 as a consul in Russia in the allied Bulgaria and from May 1943 at the embassy in Sofia , before being transferred to the censorship department of Department I (Personnel and Administration) of the Foreign Office in September 1943 . In October 1944 he was drafted into labor in the armaments industry.

Nothing is known about its denazification . In 1948 Bogs emigrated to the United States .

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 , pp. 207 f.
• Daniel B. Roth: Hitler's bridgehead in Sweden: The German legation in Stockholm , LIT-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-643-10346-8 .