Edmund Friedemann Dräcker

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Edmund Friedemann Dräcker (born April 1, 1888 in Suleyken ( East Prussia ), † 1989 (?)) Was a fictional German diplomat .

Emergence

Hasso von Etzdorf (1900–1989), a legation secretary at the German embassy in Rome , wanted to avoid a boring routine meeting in 1936. He invented a "Ministerialrat Dräcker from the Reich Ministry of Finance from Berlin"; the name of a beer called Dreher inspired him when choosing the name Dräcker (Etzdorf chose the name part "Friedemann" as a homage to his friend Ernst-Friedemann von Münchhausen ). Etzdorf instructed an embassy employee to come to the meeting and tell him that Ministerialrat Dräcker had just arrived and that he urgently wanted to speak to him. Visits from Dräcker were reported frequently from now on; Etzdorf and other embassy employees who had been privy to the hoax then went to a nearby beer bar. Through a request to the Reichsarchiv “re. Ministerialrat Dr. Dräcker ”was made by the then archivist in the Foreign Office (AA), Johann Ullrich, Dräcker. Ullrich - after the Nazi era as archive manager of the new AA in Bonn - collected all reports and announcements that those initiated into the Dräcker-Hoax circulated about Dräcker. The result was a thick Dräcker file.

"Resume"

Edmund Friedemann Dräcker was the descendant of Huguenot immigrants. He was born on April 1, 1888 in Suleyken near Gumbinnen ( East Prussia ). His father was the pastor Gotthilf Dräcker, the mother was Countess von Stoltze-Ohnezaster.

Dräcker had been a member of the diplomatic service of the German Reich since 1910 . In 1911 he was Vice Consul in Bombay . In 1941 he worked for the Niederdonau district and explored special cultivation options here. He published the results in 1942 in a “final report” that appeared in the quarterly journal on agricultural physiology . In contrast to its inventor, it was not to be found on any member list of the NSDAP or the SA and therefore had no problems with its denazification .

On January 13, 1953, Dräcker was retired on April 1, 1953. In 1959 he did not return from a secret mission to Beirut .

On April 1, 1982, at a high point in the Cold War, the FAZ reported that Dräcker had hoisted the federal flag on a large ice floe in Antarctica and had declared claims to sovereignty. The East Berlin magazine Horizont castigated the activities of “imperialist monopolies”.

After 1985 he was briefly responsible for the standardization of seaman's yarn as a special advisor to the European Commission in Brussels .

Blank / Legends

It is mainly thanks to Dräcker that the previously widespread animal cruel practice of tying up bears is now banned in most European countries. Dräcker is said to have supported Jakob Maria Mierscheid , SPD member of the Bundestag since 1979, in his extraordinarily varied work.

Dräcker is currently supposed to be President of the Federal Office for Magical Beings. The following quote is ascribed to him: “If there is a federal office for the administration of magical beings, then there are magical beings in Germany. Because the idea that there is a German authority with no meaning or purpose is simply completely absurd ”.

Movie

In 1996 Claus Strobel made a film (86 min) with the title Das Phantom von Bonn . Hermann Lause played Edmund F. Dräcker, Charles Brauer played Karl M. Bödinger, Jürgen Schmidt played the diplomat Ferdinand Bickers, Loni von Friedl played Anna Dräcker and Wanja Mues played Hasso von Etzdorf.

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .
  • Johannes Marré , Karl-Günther von Hase (Ed.): Retired Ministerialdirigent Dr. hc Edmund F. Dräcker. Life and work. From imperial vice consul to Indian guru. A documentation. 2nd (still unfinished) edition. Scientific publishing establishment for the care of German meaningful goods, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6950-7 ( Contributions to the popularization of German authorities. Series A: The Foreign Office 4d, Outstanding Members of the Foreign Service 2).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FAZ.net August 14, 2000 (p. 8): Privy Councilors
  2. ↑ Ernst von Münchhausen: If we tell the truth, we made a promise: From the adventurous world of diplomacy . Hoffmann and Campe, 2012, ISBN 978-3-455-85046-8 ( google.de [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  3. ↑ a b c Der Spiegel 41/1967: Dräcker lives
  4. ↑ Quoted in: Peter Melichar , Ernst Langthaler , Stefan Eminger (Ed.): Economy. Lower Austria in the 20th century . Volume 2. Vienna / Cologne / Weimar, 2008, p. 789 f. GoogleBooks
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel 33/2000: Phantom with Homburg
  6. ↑ Klaus Hansen : The small no in the big yes: Joke and politics in the Federal Republic . Springer 1990, p. 124 ( online ).
  7. ^ Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945. Published in five volumes by the Foreign Office through the Historical Service. Volume 1: AF. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , 2000 (quoted from FAZ.net August 14, 2000 (p. 8): Privy Councilors ); Page 457–459 .
  8. ↑ Federal Office for Magical Beings in Bonn: Edmund F. Dräcker, President ( Memento from May 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ www.kino.de (accessed on July 25, 2018)
  10. ↑ filmdienst.de , accessed on July 25, 2018.
  11. ↑ Review (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 2, 2001, No. 78 / page 11)