Christian Zinsser

Christian Zinsser (* 26. December 1907 in Bärenstein ; † 12. March 1993 in Munich ) was a German diplomat in the era of National Socialism and the Federal Republic.

Life

Christian Zinsser's father was a pastor . Christian Zinsser studied law and joined the NSDAP and NSDStB on August 15, 1927 with the number 66 421 . On June 1, 1929, Zinsser resigned from the NSDAP, passed his first state examination in 1930 and became an assessor in the Saxon court administration in February 1931.

From 1932 Zinsser was registered with residences in Leipzig and Dresden. On June 20, 1932, Zinsser rejoined the National Socialist organizations; in spring 1932 he had been released from service in the Saxon court administration to represent the NSDStB in Rome at the fascist Gruppi Universitaria Fascisti .

In 1935 Zinsser passed the second state examination in law. On April 1, 1936, Zinsser became an attaché at the Foreign Office, passed the diplomatic consular examination in 1937 and worked in foreign operations.

Zinsser was accredited to the embassy of the German Reich in Warsaw until 1939. On December 19, 1939, after the sinking of Admiral Graf Spee , Zinsser was in Montevideo when Hans Langsdorff shot himself. Zinsser was appointed extraordinary envoy and plenipotentiary minister of the German Reich in Central America . Zinsser consul in Tegucigalpa , Roberto Motznach, committed suicide after an argument with Zinsser suicide . His charge d'affaires in San Salvador Richard von Heynitz had disappeared two days when he was found shot to death on a lonely road.

On March 22, 1941, Jorge Ubico Castañeda declared Zinsser a persona non grata . Zinsser was transferred to Shanghai on April 16, 1941 , from where Attaché Franz Ferring went to Los Angeles by train and plane to Guatemala City on board the Japanese steamer Asama Maru in May 1941 to take over Zinsser's post. Christian Zinsser arrived in Shanghai on June 2, 1941. In the newly opened Consulate General, he represented Martin Fischer as head when he was meanwhile acting ambassador.

On September 1, 1945, Zinsser was arrested by the Red Army in Changchun Manchuria during Operation August Storm . Zinsser was arrested on April 12, 1950 and sentenced to 25 years in the Gulag on October 28, 1950 . On August 1, 1953, Zinsser was transferred to Camp 10.

Zinsser arrived at the Zoo station on December 15, 1955, when the ten thousand returned home . In 1957, Zinsser was accepted into the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany as a second class councilor. Here he achieved the degree of consul general. He was employed in the Middle East Section of the Eastern Department, and was then sent to Portugal as Counselor in Tehran. In 1969 he was appointed consul general in Porto Alegre and retired in 1972.

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. 381 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harald Oelrich: Sportgeltung, Weltgeltung: Sport in the field of tension of German-Italian foreign policy from 1918 to 1945. P. 244
2. ^ Alfred Cary Schlesinger : Centro America en peligro. 1942, 22 pp., 13
3. ^ Astrid Freyeisen: Shanghai and the politics of the Third Reich. P. 223

predecessor	Office	successor
Otto Reinebeck	ao envoy u. bev. Minister of the German Reich in Guatemala 1941 to March 22, 1941	Franz Ferring