Conrad Frederick Roediger

Conrad Frederick Roediger , also Conrad Roediger , (born February 4, 1887 in Kiel ; † October 11, 1973 in Tübingen ) was a German diplomat, lawyer and, due to his election by the Bundestag (and a re-election on September 27, 1955) from 7 September 1951 to August 31, 1956 member of the Second Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court .

Roediger was an employee of the Foreign Office from 1914 until the end of the Second World War . On April 1, 1940, he joined the NSDAP . Nothing is known about its denazification .

After 1946 he taught at the University of Tübingen as an honorary professor of cultural and political studies in Great Britain and the Commonwealth . Before his election as constitutional judge, he headed the German delegation at the EVG negotiations in Paris in 1951 . He had no successor because the number of judges per Senate was reduced from twelve to ten in 1956.

Worked in the Foreign Office 1933–1945

Roediger decided in a memo on June 15, 1933: It turned out that the managing director Wertheimer was out of the question , and he attached a personal letter that he had written to him as his old friend due to years of cooperation in the Foreign Office, in order not to be released by the DAI because of his Jewish origin , in the file as an attachment.

In the presentation of the Independent Commission of Historians , which dealt with the past of the Foreign Office, it is stated that the representatives of the Foreign Office were "ignored" in Poland after 1939, unless questions from foreign nationals were involved. When asked how to deal with Jews of foreign nationality in the Generalgouvernement, Roediger gave the answer. He referred "to the customary international law of foreign nationals, including those of Jewish descent." Foreign Jews would have to be granted "a certain minimum of rights, both with regard to the protection of property and the protection of the person." Otherwise one would Negotiate charges of violation of international law.

Honors

1956: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany

literature

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 .
Conrad Roediger , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 51/1973 of December 10, 1973, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Reich Chancellery files. Weimar Republic: Biographical Data
Literature by and about Conrad Frederick Roediger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

↑ Hans-Adolf Jacobsen Ed .: Hans Steinacher , Federal Director of the VDA 1933 - 1937. Memoirs and documents. Series: Schriften des Bundesarchivs Vol. 19. Boldt, Boppard 1970 ISBN 3764615451 pp. 95–100
↑ Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei et al .: The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 292.

personal data
SURNAME	Roediger, Conrad Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat, judge at the Federal Constitutional Court and
DATE OF BIRTH	February 4, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel
DATE OF DEATH	October 11, 1973
Place of death	Tübingen

[1] Hans-Adolf Jacobsen Ed .: Hans Steinacher , Federal Director of the VDA 1933 - 1937. Memoirs and documents. Series: Schriften des Bundesarchivs Vol. 19. Boldt, Boppard 1970 ISBN 3764615451 pp. 95–100

[2] Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei et al .: The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 292.