Artur Adolf Konradi

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Artur Adolf Konradi (born September 28, 1880 in Sieniawa near Kiev , Russian Empire ; † September 30, 1951 in Flensburg ) was commercial attaché of the German legation in Romania and general secretary of the Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce and "regional group leader" of the NSDAP's foreign organization (NSDAP- AO) in Romania.

Life

Konradi studied at the Universities of Karlsruhe and Braunschweig, where he joined the Corps Franconia Karlsruhe and the Corps Rhenania Braunschweig . From 1905 to 1908 he worked as an engineer in Mühlheim and from 1909 to 1915 as a sales representative in Kharkiv . From 1915 to 1917 he was in Russian custody, during which he was exiled to Siberia. From 1917 to 1929 he was export manager and authorized signatory of a mechanical engineering company in Germany. He received German citizenship in 1919. From 1930 he was active as an independent representative of German industrial goods in Bucharest. In 1931 he joined the NSDAP and in 1932 was appointed "National Group Leader" of the NSDAP-AO for Romania, and in 1935 General Secretary of the Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce in Bucharest . Konradi was considered the richest Reich German in Bucharest and was one of the most important donors of the German National Community in Romania (DVR). In his house in 1938 discussions took place with Edit von Coler about the coordination of Germans in Romania .

In the course of the suppressed uprising of the Iron Guard , high-ranking German Nazi functionaries in Romania made it possible for Horia Sima and around three hundred legionaries to flee to Germany. The German envoy in Romania, Manfred von Killinger, questioned Konradi and the deputy "regional group leader" Langenecker, who assured him by telegram on February 22, 1941 that no legionaries were being hidden. But they did not rule out that Reich Germans in the provinces would have done this. On March 1, 1941, Manfred von Killinger sent a letter from the Romanian Prime Minister and Army Chief of Staff Ion Antonescu , in which he ordered the transfer of eleven named persons "in the interests of inner peace in my country as well as for a healthy defense of our common interests" demanded to Germany. Konradi's name was sixth on the list. According to a report on May 25, 1941, Konradi and Langenecker had "returned to the Reich". Konradi's successor as "regional group leader" was Ludwig Kohlhammer .

After the Second World War, Konradi lived in Bissingheim in the Düsseldorf administrative district in 1946 . He died in Flensburg in 1951. According to a memorandum of the CIA from 1978, in which Konradi was referred to as "German intelligence chief" in Romania, he was neither contacted nor questioned. There is no information about his German secret service contacts in Romania.

rating

Alfred Coulin, most recently deputy editor-in-chief of the Bucharest Tageblatt, described Konradi as an "unhappy personality" and a "cripple and pathologically irritable in dealing with people".

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 150 years Corps Rhenania Zurich-Aachen-Braunschweig, 1855-2005. Braunschweig 2005, p. 318
  2. ^ Journal of History. Volume 5, issues 1-3, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften, 1957, p. 213ff.
  3. ^ A b Karl M. Reinerth, Friedrich "Fritz" Cloos : On the history of the Germans in Romania, 1935–1945: Articles and reports. Verlag der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Südostdeutsche Volks- und Heimatforschung, 1988, p. 125f.
  4. ^ Institutul de Istorie "George Bariţiu", Stelian Mândruţ, Ottmar Traşcă: Fritz Valjavec şi România (1939, 1941) . Cluj-Napoca, in Romanian
  5. ^ A b Paul Milata : Between Hitler, Stalin and Antonescu: Romanian Germans in the Waffen SS. (Volume 34 of Studia Transylvanica). Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-412-13806-6 , pp. 34ff and 339.
  6. ^ Henry Eaton: The Origins and Onset of the Romanian Holocaust. Wayne State University Press, 2013, ISBN 978-0-8143-3856-8 , p. 67.
  7. ↑ a b files on German foreign policy. Series D: 1937-1941; Series E: 1941–1945, Göttingen 1956–1979. Series D, Vol. XII 1, No. 118, pp. 173f. In: Klaus Popa : Völkisches Handbuch Südosteuropa. Entry Adolf Konradi
  8. ↑ United States, Department of State: Document on German Foreign Policy, 1918-1945: series D. 1962.
  9. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : Ernst-Wilhelm Bohle: Gauleiter in the service of party and state. Duncker & Humblot, 2009, ISBN 978-3-428-52862-2 , p. 102.
  10. ^ Central Intelligence Agency , Library: Name Trace and Records Search. Colonel Boris T. Pash; Otto brecht Alfred Von Bolshwing; Artur Adolf Konradi; and Dr. Heinrich Count of Meran (Merna) . Reference OGC 78-5719, August 29, 1978, in English

Remarks

  1. ↑ List of the eleven persons destined for expulsion from Romania:
    1. Otto von Bolschwing , SS-Hauptsturmführer, representative of the SD in Bucharest
    2. Kurt Geissler , SS-Obersturmführer, Kriminalrat
    3. Karl of Meran
    4. Cones
    5. Wenceslaus
    6. Artur Adolf Konradi
    7. Karl Kräutle , agricultural politician and SS leader
    8. Josef Langenecker, deputy "regional group leader"
    9. Fritz Wüsow, German consul in Orșova
    10. Emil Geiger, German consul in Constanța
    11. Muegge, German consul in Ploieşti
    Source: Foreign Office: Files on German Foreign Policy, 1918–1945, Verlag Impr. Nationale, 1969.
personal data
SURNAME Konradi, Artur Adolf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Konradi, Artur Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Commercial attaché of the German legation in Romania and general secretary of the Romanian-German Chamber of Commerce and regional group leader of the NSDAP's foreign organization (NSDAP-AO) in Romania
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Sieniawa near Kiev, Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH September 30, 1951
Place of death Flensburg