Carlos R. Piñeyro

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Carlos R. Piñeyro (* 1890 in Paris ) was an Argentine ambassador and involved in helping Nazi perpetrators and collaborators to escape to Argentina.

Life

Carlos Piñeyro was the son of Enrique Piñeyro. From 1934 to 1939 he was Consul General in the Free City of Danzig . In 1941 he married a German in Bulgaria .

From May 1945 Piñeyro was consul in Copenhagen . In July 1946, in a report to the Foreign Ministry, he outlined the possibility of naturalizing around 200,000 refugees from his area of ​​responsibility in Argentina. He issued Argentine identity papers that Günter Toepke (lieutenant colonel and head of a German service group in Denmark during the war ) passed on to technicians and war criminals in hiding. So came u. a. Kurt Tank and Carl Værnet to Argentina. Karl Thalau's ID card, until 1945 professor of aircraft construction and statics at the Technical University of Berlin , was not recognized at Copenhagen-Kastrup Airport . Günter Toepke was arrested by the Danish police's intelligence service on November 24, 1947 when he was crossing the border with Paul Friedrich Klages , a graduate engineer from Focke-Wulf's design office.

Piñeyro was expelled by the Danish government on December 6, 1947. He then worked as consul general in Istanbul . His assistant Elzear Mouret was transferred to London. Ambassador José Fausto Rieffolo Bessone was summoned to the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, withdrawn a few months later and transferred to Dublin . The rat lines were subsequently moved to Zurich Airport and Genoa. From 1949 to 1953 he was ambassador to Beirut .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Centro de Estudios Migratorios Latinoamericanos, Estudios migratorios latinoamericanos , Issue 1, January 1, 1985, p. 122
  2. ↑ Uki Goñi , Perón y los alemanes : la verdad sobre el espionaje nazi y los fugitivos del Reich, Editorial Sudamericana, 1999 - 317 p., P. 265
  3. ↑ Stefanie Schumann, Perón's immigration policy and the myth of the ODESSA - 2010–2072 p., P. 64
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ^ The International year book and statesmen's who's who , Brill Academic Publishers, Kelly's Directories, 1953, p. 317
predecessor Office successor
Francisco Arias Cuenca Argentine ambassador to Lebanon
1949–1953 		Santiago Caffuri
personal data
SURNAME Piñeyro, Carlos R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH 20th century