Alois Tichy

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Alois Tichy (born July 14, 1906 in Antonienhütte , † December 8, 1952 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat . He worked as head of the economic department at the German embassy in Tokyo and NSDAP party referee ( Uschla functionary ). After the Second World War he worked as a head of division in the German Office for Peace Issues in Stuttgart . In 1950 he was drafted into the Federal Foreign Service . First he worked in the liaison office to the Allied High Commission, later as head of Department III (preparation of the peace settlement in the economic field).

Life

His parents were the mine inspector Josef Tichy and his wife Ida, geb. Goretzki.

Alois Tichy attended humanistic high schools in Königshütte and Kattowitz and passed the Abitur on June 14, 1924. From 1924 to 1928 he studied Japanese and law in Geneva , Berlin and Breslau . On July 21, 1927 he received a diploma in the Japanese language from the seminar for oriental languages in Berlin and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. After taking the legal traineeship on January 17, 1930, he worked in the Prussian judicial service from February of that year. On April 25, 1933, Tichy was drafted into the Foreign Service . From May 18, he worked as an attaché in Department IV (Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, East Asia) in the Po department (Poland). On August 9, 1933, he passed his assessor exam. From March 19, 1934 to March 31, 1935 he worked at the embassy in Kovno . From August 23, 1935, he worked at the German embassy in Tokyo . In November 1937 he joined the NSDAP . From 1938 he took over the management of the economic department of the embassy in Tokyo. Tichy had passed his diplomatic-consular examination in July 1935. On August 12, 1940, he was promoted to the Legation Council. After his return to Germany in the autumn of 1947, he had been head of division in the German Peace Office from November 1, 1949 . On June 20, 1950, he was drafted into the Foreign Service in the Foreign Affairs Office in the Federal Chancellery . From June 22nd, Tichy worked in the liaison office to the Allied High Commission (Division II). Later he became Head of Unit III in Political Division II (Preparation of the Peace Settlement in the Economic Field). On October 13, 1952, he was promoted to the lecturing councilor.

During his work in Tokyo, Tichy was also entrusted with the case of the industrialist and “Jewish savior” Willy Rudolf Foerster . According to the naval attaché Admiral Paul Wenneker at the time , Foerster was considered a "persona non grata" by the Tichy party members. Together with Josef Meisinger , known as the “butcher of Warsaw” , he is said to have obtained a forged extract from Foerster's criminal record from the Reich Security Main Office , which was later also handed over to Japanese investigative authorities in order to incriminate Foerster. After the war, Tichy claimed in connection with a press campaign that was supposed to defame Foerster as a "Soviet agent" to the journalist Jürgen Thorwald that he had material that proved Foerster's previous convictions. When Thorwald then requested this, he got the answer “that the documents were available”, but he would not pass them on to Thorwald, as he was unfavorable about his friend Ambassador a. D. Eugen Ott reported.

At the beginning of 1950, Tichy was in charge of an application Foerster had submitted to the federal government. In response, he immediately reported to his former superior, Eugen Ott , in order to obtain material with which he could deal with Foerster's claims "in principle", that is, in a negative manner. It seems plausible that he received from him photos of a Japanese event for the 2600th anniversary of the Japanese Empire (1940), at which Foerster's workforce also had to compete and passed them on to Allied agencies, possibly the Allied High Commission . At least in 1956, Franz Nüßlein from the Foreign Office claimed that the Americans had material that proved Foerster's involvement in "war propaganda and propaganda marches". In fact, when Foerster was arrested by German authorities in 1943, the Japanese were accused of the exact opposite, namely "anti-war propaganda".

In September 1951, the freelance journalist Eckart Heinze-Mansfeld unveiled the “fatal continuity of personnel” of the Bonn Foreign Office in a five-part series in the Frankfurter Rundschau . In the last episode of September 6, 1951, Alois Tichy was also mentioned. This was not only a party member, but also a "party judge, ie a functionary of the NSDAP from 1938 to 1943". On the evening of September 7, 1951, the Foreign Office published a press release on Heinze-Mansfeld's series of articles, according to which the allegations mentioned were "either objectively untrue assertions or distorted reproductions of excerpts from the minutes of the Nuremberg trial or pure combinations". The Frankfurter Rundschau then published the above-mentioned statement on September 10, 1951, together with a letter from the chief editor, in which the Foreign Office was asked to explain by September 15 which information in the published articles would justify such claims. On the same day, all diplomats affected by the series of articles were asked to comment in an internal circular from the Foreign Office marked “Secret”. On September 17, 1951, the editors of the Frankfurter Rundschau received notification that, at the suggestion of the attacked employees, a “criminal criminal investigation procedure” had been ordered, the results of which would be communicated. A few weeks later, on October 24, 1951, at the request of the SPD parliamentary group , the Bundestag decided to set up a committee of inquiry into the Federal Foreign Office's personnel policy. With regard to Tichy, the committee decided that the presentation by the Frankfurter Rundschau that he was a party member was correct. A "not very important deviation from the correctness" is, however, that he was actually "party referee" and not "party judge". The committee ruled that it had "no concerns about re-use" Tichy, but recommended "use in internal service". The reason given was that Tichy had "not been politically active in the interests of the NSDAP ". However, the committee saw "restraint" in the use of his person abroad.

Works

  • Alois Tichy: The constitutional status of the emperor of Japan with special consideration of the imperial house law. Ohlau in Silesia 1928.

literature

  • Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger : Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945. Editor: Foreign Office, Historical Service, Volume 5, T – Z, p. 40, Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 .
  • Clemens Jochem: The Foerster case : The German-Japanese machine factory in Tokyo and the Jewish auxiliary committee Hentrich and Hentrich, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-95565-225-8 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945. Editor: Foreign Office, Historical Service, Volume 5, T – Z, p. 40, Schöningh, Paderborn 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 .
  2. ↑ Clemens Jochem: The Foerster case: The German-Japanese machine factory in Tokyo and the Jewish auxiliary committee Hentrich and Hentrich, Berlin 2017, p. 20, ISBN 978-3-95565-225-8 .
  3. ↑ Jochem: Der Fall Foerster , Berlin 2017, p. 66.
  4. ↑ Jochem: Der Fall Foerster , Berlin 2017, p. 152 f.
  5. ↑ Jochem: Der Fall Foerster , Berlin 2017, p. 143 f.
  6. ↑ Jochem: Der Fall Foerster , Berlin 2017, p. 148.
  7. ↑ Jochem: Der Fall Foerster , Berlin 2017, p. 107 f.
  8. ↑ Christoph Albrecht-Heider: German diplomats: The fluctuating figures from the Nazi era In Frankfurter Rundschau , October 27, 2010, available online at http://www.fr.de/politik/deutsche-diplromat-die-schwankenden-gestalten-aus -der-nazizeit-a-974197 , accessed on October 28, 2017
  9. ↑ Written report of the committee of inquiry (47th committee) in accordance with the request of the SPD parliamentary group regarding the examination of whether abuses in the Foreign Service have arisen due to personnel policy - No. 2680 of the printed matter - Rapporteur: Member of Parliament Dr. Brill , p. 46, available online at http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/01/034/0103465.pdf , accessed on October 28, 2017.
  10. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1951 , R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1999, p. 485 f., ISBN 3-486-56418-8 .
  11. ↑ Written report of the committee of inquiry (47th committee) in accordance with the request of the SPD parliamentary group regarding the examination of whether abuses in the Foreign Service have arisen due to personnel policy - No. 2680 of the printed matter - Rapporteur: Member of Parliament Dr. Brill , p. 33 f., Available online at http://dipbt.bundestag.de/doc/btd/01/034/0103465.pdf , accessed on October 28, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Tichy, Alois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 14, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Antonienhütte
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1952
Place of death Bonn