Eberhard von Stohrer
Eberhard von Stohrer (born February 5, 1883 in Stuttgart , † March 7, 1953 in Konstanz ) was an ambassador of the German Reich .
Life
His father was the later Württemberg infantry general Karl von Stohrer (1850–1920). Stohrer joined the foreign service of the Reich in 1910 from the Württemberg judicial service. From 1913 to 1919 he was the embassy secretary in Spain, where he set up a network of agents against the Western powers. In recognition of this, he received the Iron Cross 2nd class. From 1923 he headed the press department in the Foreign Office , from August 1924 the personnel department, as ministerial director. After lower embassy posts in Sofia, Brussels and London, he was appointed envoy to the Kingdom of Egypt in November 1926 . In Cairo he represented the empire in negotiations with the Egyptian government, which demanded the return of the bust of Nefertiti from the Egyptian department of the royal Prussian art collections in Berlin . These negotiations failed because of Adolf Hitler's resistance . In 1935 he was a diplomat in Bucharest. In April 1936 he had strayed 50 kilometers from the road after a sandstorm while on a road trip in the Sahara. A British aviator found him after four days.
In July 1936, von Stohrer received his letter of accreditation for the government of the Republic of Spain . On September 1, 1936, he joined the NSDAP . Since Hitler did not want to commit himself to the coup of Francisco Franco at that moment, Stohrer did not hand in the letter of accreditation. After Wilhelm Faupel had been undiplomatic and curious about strategic issues, Stohrer was sent to Salamanca at the end of August 1937 as ambassador to the coup government of the Unión Militar Espanola (UME) . In Madrid , Stohrer was involved in intrigues with which the National Socialists wanted to drag Spain into the world war. According to his own statements (made in 1948 and not verifiable), he took a position against the German plans in these intrigues. 1941–1942 he headed the embassy in Madrid. In 1943 he was removed from office and ordered back to Berlin, where he served in the Foreign Ministry until the end of the war in 1945.
The unpublished novel-like report Abu-el-Widán , which was written by an alleged Berthold Koenig, exists about the events at the German embassy during this time . It was assumed that this is a pseudonym of Stohrer.
literature
- The International Who's Who . 11th ed. London 1947
- Guest at Juanito's . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1963, pp. 71 ff . ( online ).
- Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3
- E. von Stohrer: Proposals for an “Islam Program” v. November 18, 1941. in Bernd Philipp Schröder: Germany and the Middle East in World War II. Series: Studies and documents on the history of the 2. WK ., Ed. Working group for military research , 16. Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-7881-1416-9 , pp. 283f.
- Rudolf Feistmann : Eberhard von Stohrer . In: The new world stage. Weekly for politics, art, economy . Prague / Zurich / Paris, October 7, 1937, No. 41, pp. 1273–1304
- Jan Riebe: In the field of tension between racism and anti-Semitism. The relationship of the German extreme right to Islamist groups . Tectum, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-8288-8961-1 (series: Diplomica , Volume 26) p. 45 - Excursus: Stohrer's "Islam Program"
Web links
- Newspaper article about Eberhard von Stohrer in the press kit of the 20th century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Schwanitz: Germany and the Middle East, 1871-1945
- ↑ a b If you march in, we'll shoot! An unknown chapter of the Second World War: the German plot against Franco . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1963 ( online ).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Johannes Schneller |
Envoy of the German Reich in the Kingdom of Egypt November 1926 to 1936 |
Günther Pawelke |
| Wilhelm Faupel |
Ambassador of the German Reich in Spain at the end of August 1937 to 1943 |
Hans-Adolf von Moltke |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stohrer, Eberhard von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 5, 1883 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 7, 1953 |
| Place of death | Constancy |