Eduard Mirow

Eduard Mirow (born March 3, 1911 in Hankau , China , † September 28, 1999 in Kassel ) was a German diplomat . From 1937 to 1938 he worked for the foreign organization of the NSDAP and was reactivated from 1957 for the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Mirow studied at the Georg August University and was a member of the Corps Brunsviga Göttingen , later he studied in Tyrol and became a member of the Corps Gothia Innsbruck there . Mirow's son is the SPD politician Thomas Mirow (* 1953).

On July 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP ( party number 549.764). Mirow was also initially a member of the SA and later the SS , applicant since 1944, later SS-Untersturmführer . From 1937 to 1938 he was responsible for the foreign organization of the NSDAP in the personal report of Gauleiter Ernst Wilhelm Bohle . From August 1940 to September 1944 he did his military service and acquired the EK first and second class as well as the infantry assault badge in bronze and the wounded badge in silver.

Mirow entered the foreign service of the German Reich in May 1938 and was a diplomat in Jerusalem and from 1944 in Zurich . After the Second World War, it registered for reuse at the end of 1949, but was not reactivated until 1957 for the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic. In the meantime he was personal advisor to the Minister of the Federal Ministry for Affairs of the Marshall Plan and German representative of the Organization for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) in Paris, the predecessor organization OECD ., As a German diplomat, Mirow was in Paris , Baghdad , Damascus , Beirut and most recently in 1973 Stationed as ambassador in the Kingdom of Nepal until 1976 .

literature

• Sebastian Weitkamp: Brown Diplomats Edited by Dietz Verlag JHW Nachf, 2007
• Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Ernst-Wilhelm Bohle: Gauleiter in the service of the party and the state , 2009
• 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 , p. 265 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brief CV in Braune Diplomats , p. 113
2. ↑ Frank-Rutger Hausmann: Ernst-Wilhelm Bohle: Gauleiter in the Service of Party and State (2009)
3. ↑ Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann: The Office and the Past: German Diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic (2010)