Bernd Mumm from Schwarzenstein
Bernd Mumm von Schwarzenstein (born January 30, 1901 in Frankfurt am Main , † December 20, 1981 in Munich ) was a German diplomat .
Life
Mumm von Schwarzenstein was the second son of Alfred Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1874–1935) and Martha Mumm von Schwarzenstein née. Delius (1875-1938). After high school he studied law in Bonn , Munich and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1923. jur. received his doctorate. Since 1919 he was a member of the Corps Palatia Bonn . Mumm von Schwarzenstein completed technical and banking training in the family's companies (including the C. Delius cloth factory) and worked in the textile industry.
On April 21, 1928, he joined the German diplomatic service. He passed the diplomatic and consular examination on February 27, 1931. After assignments in Brussels , Madrid and u. a. In various departments of the Foreign Office in Berlin he was dismissed from the Foreign Office on June 30, 1939 for political reasons. Mumm was denounced several times, reported to the Gestapo for his attitude critical of the regime and finally sentenced to five years in prison in May 1944 for undermining military strength . His brother Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein had been removed from the Foreign Office in 1935, arrested in 1942 and shot in prison in Brandenburg an der Havel in April 1945 for high treason.
After the war, Mumm was freed from Esterwegen prison by Canadian troops, who interned him again for a time as a Nazi diplomat. After his time in the concentration camp, from 1946 he worked as trustee and director of the mechanical string factory Felten & Guilleaume, Schretzheim / Dillingen. On March 31, 1952, he received the reparation notice according to the law regulating the reparation of National Socialist injustices for members of the public service. On June 11, 1952, he returned to the Foreign Service and was initially assigned to the legation in San Salvador. On December 1, 1952, he became head of the Mission for Central America in San José de Costa Rica . On March 5, 1955, he became ambassador to San Salvador . In January 1960 he became ambassador to Luxembourg . On September 16, 1963, as ministerial director, he became the first German diplomat in Poland to head the commercial agency of the Federal Republic of Germany in Warsaw after the Second World War .
He was retired on December 22, 1965 and then lived in Munich.
Mumm was born with Viktoria between 1948 and 1965. Baron Praetorius von Richthofen (1914–2002), daughter of the diplomat Baron Hartmann von Richthofen , married. They have a daughter, Marie Luise Mumm von Schwarzenstein (born 1949) and two grandchildren - Dorothee Countess von Posadowsky-Wehner (born 1971) and Ariane Countess von Posadowsky-Wehner (married von Strantz, born 1972). Bernd Mumm von Schwarzenstein was the stepfather of the former President of the German Sports Confederation, Manfred Freiherr von Richthofen (1934-2014) and Hartmann Freiherr von Richthofen, children of Viktoria Baroness von Richthofen from his first marriage.
literature
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Turks in the hotel . Der Spiegel, September 9, 1964. Retrieved October 4, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Bernd |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Bernd Eugen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 20, 1981 |
| Place of death | Munich |