Alfred Horstmann
Alfred Horstmann (born July 25, 1879 in Frankfurt am Main , † May 17, 1947 in Oranienburg ) was a German diplomat .
Life
After attending school , Horstmann , who came from the Protestant family of the owners of the Frankfurter General-Anzeiger , studied law in Bonn, was a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn , and joined the judicial service of the Kingdom of Prussia after the first state examination in 1904 . As part of his preparatory service , he was assigned to the embassy in France in 1906 .
In 1909 he finally entered the diplomatic service and was initially employed at the embassy in the USA , where he was promoted to legation secretary in 1910 . He was then from 1912 to 1914 chargé d'affaires of the legation in Portugal . During the First World War between 1916 and 1918 he was initially an employee of the Governor General of Brussels and from 1917 as a Legation Councilor of the military administration in Romania .
In 1919 he returned to Germany and married the daughter of the banker Paul von Schwabach, Leonie "Lally" von Schwabach , who came from Kerzendorf . He then worked as a legation counselor in the political department of the Foreign Office until 1920 . After working at the Legation in Norway , he returned to the Foreign Office as Legation Councilor in 1921 and was promoted to Legation Councilor in 1922 and then to Ministerial Conductor in 1926 .
In 1928 he was accredited as first class envoy in Belgium , where he succeeded Friedrich von Keller . As part of a change, he succeeded Eduard Heinrich Wagenmann in 1931 as first class envoy in Portugal , while Hugo Graf von Lerchenfeld became envoy in Belgium.
After the seizure of power , he was retired in 1933 . Subsequently he was a privateer and art collector and was arrested in 1946 by the Soviet NKVD for "publishing a newspaper propagating National Socialism" and died the following year in the Soviet internment camp of the Red Army in special camp No. 7 Sachsenhausen Oranienburg .
Only in 1995 was made posthumously his rehabilitation by the Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation Main.
literature
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .
Web links
- Alfred Horstmann in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic
- New German Biography , Volume 9, p. 645, Berlin 1972
Individual evidence
- ^ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 11, 351
- ^ Rolf Peter Tschapek: Building blocks of a future German Central Africa. Dissertation. University of Düsseldorf 1998. Steiner, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-515-07592-5 , p. 449 ( digitized version )
- ↑ Lali Horstmann in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Horstmann, Alfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 25, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 17, 1947 |
| Place of death | Oranienburg |