Arnold Kalle

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Arnold Friedrich Wilhelm Kurt Kalle (born June 21, 1873 Biebrich am Rhein, † 1952 ) was a German officer , diplomat and politician (DVP).

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Kalle was the son of the secret government councilor and mining official as well as co-founder of the chemical factory Kalle and Co. in Biebrich, Jakob Friedrich Kalle (1837-1915) and his wife Anna, née Kerdyk. His cousin was the manufacturer and member of the Reichstag, Dr. Wilhelm Ferdinand Kalle (1870-1954). As a young man he joined the Prussian Army , where he made a career as a cavalry officer from 1893. In 1908 Kalle became a captain in the general staff . From 1909 he was on the staff of the General Command of the XV. Army Corps in Strasbourg .

In 1912 Kalle was sent to the German Embassy in Madrid as a military attaché , where he had been responsible for maintaining the military-political relations between the German Empire and the Spanish Kingdom since 1913 . Through his work in Spain he came into contact with the agent Mata Hari in 1916. Kalle and Mata Hari were having an affair. Mata Hari later said before a French military court that she also took money from Kalle for the sexual contacts. Mata Hari, as an agent for the French, also received information from Kalle about the refueling of German submarines in Spanish ports and the smuggling of German agents into Monaco . That information was probably out of date, and Kalle knew it was well known to French intelligence. Kalle, in turn, sent information he had received from Mata Hari in an encrypted telegram to Amsterdam. However, the telegram was intercepted and decrypted by the British secret service. The British now thought Mata Hari was a possible double agent and warned the French about her, who then set a trap for her. In February 1917, Mata Hari was arrested. She was charged with espionage for the German Reich in a French military court, found guilty and executed.

After his return to the German Reich in the spring of 1919, Kalle joined the German People's Party (DVP), newly founded by Gustav Stresemann . Retired from the army as a lieutenant colonel . From February 1920 to 1923 he was the deputy state commissioner for public order in Prussia. When Stresemann was appointed Reich Chancellor in August 1923, Kalle became a member of the Reich government as Reich Press Chief. His appointment took place on August 31, 1923. The office he held until December 23, 1923, so also in the subsequent government.

Kalle married the actress Erika Glässner (1890–1959) on November 19, 1926

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  1. ↑ Date and place of birth and year of death according to: Otto Renkhoff : Nassauische Biographie. Short biographies from 13 centuries , 1992, p. 376.
  2. ^ Ernst Rudolf Huber: German Constitutional History since 1789. 1984, p. 182.
  3. ^ Toni Bentley: Sisters of Salome , p. 14.
  4. ↑ Ludwig Richter: Die deutsche Volkspartei 1918-1933 , 2002, p. 274.
  5. ↑ August Ludwig Degener: Who is who ?. The German Who's Who , 1928.
personal data
SURNAME Kalle, Arnold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kalle, Arnold Friedrich Wilhelm Kurt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, diplomat and politician (DVP)
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1873
PLACE OF BIRTH Biebrich on the Rhine
DATE OF DEATH 1952