Diego from Bergen

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Carl-Ludwig Diego von Bergen (born October 30, 1872 in Bangkok , † October 7, 1944 in Wiesbaden ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Von Bergen was the son of the then German consul in Siam , Werner von Bergen , and the Spaniard Isabel geb. de Alcalá. He belonged to the Protestant denomination. He spent the first years of his childhood in Bangkok, Saigon and Guatemala until he came to the Roßleben monastery school in 1881 . After graduating from high school in 1888, he studied law at the University of Berlin . He was promoted to Dr. iur. received his doctorate and entered the diplomatic service in the same year , his first position as attaché in Guatemala. After completing his preparatory service , he became legation secretary in 1898 . The following year he was appointed second secretary to the legation in Beijing, transferred to Brussels in 1901 and to Madrid in 1905.

In 1906 he was appointed envoy of the Kingdom of Prussia to the Vatican. After his return he was a member of the Foreign Office from 1911 to 1919 and was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister in 1914 and Real Legation Councilor and Lecturing Council in 1915 . His last position was from 1917 to 1919 as a ministerial conductor in the Political Department of the Foreign Office. During the First World War, von Bergen was tasked with smuggling Lenin through Germany to Russia on behalf of the OHL.

In May 1919 he was first again envoy to the Vatican and then from 1920 to 1943 he was the first ambassador of the German Reich to the Holy See . From 1930 to 1943 he was the doyen of the diplomatic corps of ambassadors accredited to the Holy See.

After the beginning of the Second World War there was increasing tension between the German Reich and the Vatican. After the Christmas message of Pope Pius XII. In 1942, Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop Bergen ordered the Vatican to threaten retaliatory measures in response to the 1942 Christmas address. Ambassador Bergen, who followed the instructions of his superior in Berlin, reported that the Pope had initially listened to him in silence. Then he calmly said that he was not worried about what was going to happen to him. But if there were to be a conflict between the church and the German state, the state would lose out.

Von Bergen, who had also been a member of the NSDAP since November 1939 , was replaced in this post by Ernst von Weizsäcker , the previous State Secretary in the Foreign Office in mid-1943 .

Von Bergen had with Ellen-Vera von Dirksen, used. Countess von Wedel two children.

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  1. ^ Adalbert Erler: Bergen, Carl-Ludwig Diego von , in: Neue Deutsche Biographie 2, 1955, p. 78 [online version].
  2. ↑ The Diplomatic Corps at the Holy See ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apostolische-nachstieg.de
predecessor Office successor
Refurbishment German Ambassador (German Empire) to the Holy See
1920–1943 		Ernst von Weizsäcker
personal data
SURNAME Bergen, Diego from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bergen, Carl-Ludwig Diego von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Bangkok
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1944
Place of death Wiesbaden