Donald St. Clair Gainer

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Sir Donald St. Clair Gainer OBE , KCVO (born October 18, 1891 in Thrapston, Northamptonshire , † July 30, 1966 ) was a British diplomat .

Life

Donald St. Clair Gainer studied in England, Germany and France and joined the foreign service in 1915. From 1915 to 1920 he was Vice Consul in Narvik , Kristiansand , Tromsø and Bergen . From 1921 to 1923 he was Vice Consul in Havana . From 1923 to March 1925 he was Secretary of the Embassy in Havana, where he acted several times as Chargé d'Affaires.

From March to June 1925 he headed the Consulate General in Rotterdam . From June 1925 to 1929 he was Vice Consul in Munich and Breslau . From June 1929 to 1931 he was Consul General in Mexico City . From 1932 to 1938 he was Consul General in Munich District Bavaria . After the annexation of Austria , he became consul general in Vienna until August 1939 . About the November pogroms in 1938 he reported that a synagogue in Linz had burned down and the Salzburg synagogue destroyed. From September 1939 to 1944 he was envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Caracas . From 1944 to 1947 he was ambassador to Rio de Janeiro . From 1947 to 1950 he was ambassador to Warsaw . From 1950 to 1951, as State Secretary , he headed the Germany Department in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Johannes Feichtinger, Science Between Cultures: Austrian University Lecturers, p. 122
  2. ↑ Martin Gilbert, Kristallnacht: prelude to destruction, p. 32; Time , July 3, 1939, GERMANY: Consul for Consul
  3. ^ Leslie Bethell, Ian Roxborough, Latin America between the Second World War and the Cold War, 1944-1948 p. 49
  4. ↑ http://ukinpoland.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=News&id=3393023
  5. ^ Hanns Jürgen Küsters, Documents on Germany Policy, p. 1227
predecessor Office successor
Godfrey Haggard British Ambassador to Cuba
1923–1925 		Thomas Morris
Michael Palairet (Ambassador) British Consul General in Vienna
1938–1939 		Henry William Bradshaw
Ernest Gye British Ambassador to Venezuela
1939–1944 		George Ogilvie-Forbes
Noel Charles British Ambassador to Brazil
1944–1947 		Nevile Butler
Victor Cavendish-Bentinck British ambassador to Poland
1947–1950 		Charles Harold Bateman
personal data
SURNAME Gainer, Donald St. Clair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 18, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Thrapston Northants
DATE OF DEATH July 30, 1966