Bogislav from Dönhoff

Bogislav Otto Magnus Kurt Graf von Dönhoff Freiherr von Krafft (born August 24, 1881 in Skandau (East Prussia), † February 18, 1961 in Buenos Aires ) was a German diplomat and politician ( NSDAP ).

Life

Dönhoff attended high schools in Berlin, Darmstadt and Büdingen and graduated from high school at Easter 1901. From 1901 to 1905 he studied law in Bonn, Breslau, Berlin and Königsberg. From April 1, 1903 to March 31, 1904, he did military service as a one-year volunteer . On June 21, 1903, he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve.

He passed the legal traineeship on December 18, 1906, and had been in the Prussian judicial service since December 21, 1906

On November 10, 1907, he switched to foreign service. He was an attaché at the German embassies in Madrid, Paris and St. Petersburg. From November 1909 he worked in Department III (Law) of the Foreign Office. He passed the diplomatic exam on June 21, 1911 and was promoted to Legation Secretary on June 25, 1911. From 1911 to 1920 he worked at the embassy in Buenos Aires . There he was appointed to the Lagtion Council in 1918 and put into temporary retirement on September 6, 1920.

From February 1921 he was again temporarily employed in the Foreign Office and worked at the embassy in Warsaw from 1922 to 1925. On September 30, 1922, he became Legation Councilor, and on January 5, 1925, Legation Councilor 2nd class. On April 30, 1925, he moved to the Vienna embassy where on July 17, 1926, he was first class member of the embassy.

On June 13, 1927, he took over the provisional management of the consulate in Trieste with the title of consul general. On December 23, 1927 he was again put into temporary retirement but continued to work and on February 23, 1929 was appointed Consul II class. On March 23, 1931, the next transfer took place i. e. R. Then he lived in Quittainen , Prussian Holland district. He retired on October 20, 1933, but was reactivated on October 29, 1936 and was consul in Bombay until the beginning of the war on September 3, 1939 . He was appointed Consul First Class on November 24, 1937 and Consul General on September 26, 1938. After the beginning of the war he worked in the Foreign Office and was on leave from summer 1943.

politics

On March 1, 1932, he became NSDAP local group leader in Quittainen. In 1933 he became a member of the Provincial Parliament of the Province of East Prussia and was a deputy member of the Prussian State Council from April to July 10, 1933 .

literature

• Joachim Lilla : The Prussian State Council 1921–1933. A biographical manual. With a documentation of the state councilors appointed in the “Third Reich”. (= Handbooks on the History of Parliamentarism and Political Parties , Volume 13.) Droste, Düsseldorf 2005, ISBN 978-3-7700-5271-4 , page 32.
• Norbert Korfmacher: Provisional list of members of the East Prussian Provincial Parliament 1919 to 1933, 2018, p. 13, digitized