Curt Examiner
Curt Max Prüfer (born July 26, 1881 in Berlin-Friedenau ; † January 30, 1959 in Baden-Baden ) was a German Arabist and diplomat .
Life
Curt Prüfer studied Arabic at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg and graduated in 1906 with a diploma in philosophy. In the same year he received his doctorate in philology with his work Ein Egyptisches Schattenspiel . In 1907 he joined the Foreign Service as an interpreter. Until 1919 he was accredited in Cairo and Constantinople . On the basis of the practical language skills he gained in Cairo, he wrote the introduction to the Arabic dialect of Egypt for the Baedeker publishing house in the Egyptian volume of 1928 .
During the First World War he did enemy reconnaissance in Palestine and Syria , wrote reports for the Ottoman governor of Palestine and Syria Cemal Pascha in 1915 and was involved in the preparation of German-Ottoman attacks against British posts on the Suez Canal. From 1926 to 1927 he was accredited in Tbilisi .
From 1930 to 1936 he was deputy head of the Anglo-America and Orient department in Wilhelmstrasse . From 1936 to 1939, Prüfer was head of the human resources department of the Foreign Office in Wilhelmstrasse. He joined the NSDAP in December 1937, in his key position pursued cadre policy for the NSDAP and forced officials whose wives were Jewish from their offices. The ministry headed by Joachim von Ribbentrop sent Prüfer to Rio de Janeiro in 1939 as ambassador to Getúlio Vargas . When Brazil entered the war, Prüfer returned to the German Reich in autumn 1942. Until mid-1943 he headed the Orient Department of the Foreign Ministry and looked after the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Mohammed Amin al-Husseini . In September 1943, Prüfer retired and then moved with his family to Switzerland.
Publications (selection)
- with Max Meyerhof : The ophthalmology of Jûḥannā ben Mâsawaih (777–857 AD). In: Islam. Volume 6, 1916, pp. 348-356.
literature
- Marc Hanisch: Curt Prüfer - orientalist, dragoman and Oppenheim's “man on the spot”. In Wilfried Loth, Marc Hanisch: First World War and Jihad. The Germans and the revolutionization of the Orient. Oldenbourg, Munich 2014, pp. 167–191.
- 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 .
- Donald M. Mc Kale, Rewriting History: The Original & Revised World War II Diaries of Curt Prüfer, Nazi Diplomat . Kent State University Press, Ohio 1989. ISBN 978-0-87338-364-6
- Donald M. Mc Kale, Curt Prüfer: German Diplomat from the Kaiser to Hitler . Kent State University Press, Ohio 1987, ISBN 978-0-87338-345-5
Individual evidence
- ↑ Egypt and Sudan . Karl Baedeker, Leipzig 1928, pp. XXVIII ff.
- ^ Entry for Curt Prüfer in the Federal Archives [1]
- ^ Donald M. McKale, Traditional Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Case of the German Diplomat Curt Prufer
Web links
- Literature by and about Curt Prüfer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Donald M. McKale, Traditional Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Case of the German Diplomat Curt Prufer In: Annual V Chapter 3 of the Multi Media Learning Center in the Museum of Tolerance Online of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles. An essay originally written for the 1986 annual meeting of the German Studies Association .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Fritz Max Weiss |
Ambassador of the German Reich in Ethiopia 1928–1930 |
Erich Hossenfelder |
| Karl Ritter |
Ambassador of the German Reich in Brazil 1939–1942 |
Fritz Oellers |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Examiner, Curt |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Examiner, Curt Max (full name); Examiner, Kurt; Examiner, Curt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin-Friedenau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 30, 1959 |
| Place of death | Baden-Baden |