Carl-Hermann Mueller-Graaf

Carl Hermann Mueller-Graaf (born May 8, 1903 in Schwientochlowitz , † December 20, 1963 in Bern ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Carl Hermann Mueller-Graaf (actually (until May 3, 1950): Carl Hermann Müller ) was a son of Dr. med. Carl Müller, who from 1900 was the chief doctor of the hut hospital in Schwientochlowitz. After attending grammar schools in Kattowitz, Naumburg (Saale) and Königshütte, he completed his law studies at the Universities of Giessen and Breslau , which he obtained with a doctorate in law. jur. completed. In Giessen he was a member of the Corps Teutonia . In 1935 he became a councilor and in 1938 a senior councilor in the Reich Ministry of Economics . In January 1945 he was in Bern to negotiate the electricity industry, where he became seriously ill and had to undergo surgery on a spinal cord tumor. He therefore experienced the end of the war in a neutral country abroad. During his convalescent stay in Adelboden (Bernese Oberland) he wrote the work Irrweg und Umkehr under the pseudonym “Constantin Silens” . Reflections on the fate of Germany (Basel 1946), which received widespread attention.

On May 1, 1937, Mueller joined the NSDAP . Classified as "unencumbered" by the court proceedings , he was soon able to return to the civil service. In February 1953, he was Deputy Director and Head of the Trade Policy Directorate at the Federal Ministry of Economics and in 1955 the first German ambassador after the Second World War in Vienna . From 1961 to 1963 he was permanent representative of Germany to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe (OECD).

He gained particular merit in the German-Austrian reparation negotiations and in his commitment to easing the tension between the Federal Republic of Germany and Israel.

literature

• Niels Hansen : Carl-Hermann Mueller-Graaf. A bridge builder from the very beginning In: Historische Mitteilungen. 10, 2, 1997, ISSN  0936-5796 , pp. 257-267.
• 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 .
• Matthias Pape:  Mueller-Graaf, Carl-Hermann. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 18, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-428-00199-0 , p. 497 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl-Hermann Mueller-Graaf in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law (online version)