Carl August Zapp

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Carl August Zapp (born April 5, 1904 in Düsseldorf ; died December 8, 1994 in Ratingen ) was a German diplomat. In 1951 he was appointed Consul First Class. In 1956 he was appointed Lecturer First Class Councilor. In 1962 he was appointed Legation Councilor First Class. He headed the Foreign Office and the "United Nations Unit. International worldwide organizations in Department West II ”.

Life

Zapp was the third son of Karl and Anna Zapp , nee Haarhaus born. He attended the municipal high school on Rethelstrasse (renamed Ludendorffschule from the 1920/21 school year) in Düsseldorf. From 1922 to 1926 he studied law in Bonn and Munich and received his doctorate in 1927 and was employed in the Prussian judicial service. On April 25, 1933, he was appointed to the Foreign Service. On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . From 1934 he worked in the embassy in Stockholm and was assigned to the Reich Sports Leader for the 1936 Summer Olympics . From 1936 to 1938 he was seconded to the embassy in The Hague and in 1940 worked for the Reich Commissariat for the occupied Dutch territories . In June 1943 he was transferred to the embassy in Ankara as cultural advisor and was interned in Turkey in August 1944.

After the war, he spent two months in British custody in Neumünster in 1946 . He then became managing director of the Düsseldorf Industry Club . From April 16, 1951, he was again a diplomat and worked from 1951 to 1952 in the Consulate General in Zurich. From 1952 to 1956 he was at the embassy in Bern, where he was appointed consul first class and in 1962 he was appointed delegation councilor first class. From May 1956 to October 1960 he headed the United Nations unit. International worldwide organizations in Department West II . On December 20, 1956, he was appointed Lecturer First Class Councilor. From 1960 he was German ambassador to Venezuela , 1964/66 he was ambassador to Algeria , then 1966/69 ambassador to Mexico .

Since 1922 he was a member of the Corps Hansea Bonn .

Honors

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 350f.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963. KG Saur, 2001, page 92, accessed on November 5, 2011
  2. ↑ Carl August Zapp , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 06/1968 of January 29, 1968, in the Munzinger Archive , accessed on November 5, 2011 ( beginning of the article freely available)
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 60 , 465
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Zapp, Carl August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karl August
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH April 5, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 1994
Place of death Ratingen