Edward H. Packe

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Edward Hussey Packe (born January 6, 1878 in Leicestershire , † May 11, 1946 ) was a British administrative officer. He served from 1919 to 1946 as the representative of the British government at the Anglo-Persian Oil Company / Anglo-Iranian Oil Company with the rank of director.

Life and activity

Packes was a son of Hussey Packe and his wife Alice Wodehouse, a daughter of the 1st Earl of Kimberley.

Packe attended Eton School . In 1900 he became Assistant Private Secretary to the Marquis of Lansdowne in the British War Office. In 1901 he moved to the British naval leadership, where he served as the private secretary of the First Lord of the Admiralty until 1905 . In 1911 he was elected High Sheriff of Leicestershire. In 1916 he returned to this post and stood by Arthur Balfour , Eric Geddes and Walter Long as private secretary during their tenure as Minister of the Navy. From 1914 to 1919 he was also a member of the Admiralty Staff - from 1916 to 1919 in addition to his work as private secretary.

At the coronations of Edward VII, George V and George VI, Packe took part as Gold Staff Officer.

In 1919, Packe was sent to the board of directors of the Anglo Persian Oil Company (later Anglo-Iranian Oil Company) as a representative of the British government, to which he served as a director for more than twenty-five years.

Due to his leading position in British economic life, Packe was classified as an important target by the police forces of National Socialist Germany at the end of the 1930s: In the spring of 1940, the Reich Security Main Office in Berlin put him on the special wanted list GB , a directory of people who were particularly recognized by the Nazi surveillance apparatus dangerous or important, which is why, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British Isles by the Wehrmacht, they should be located and arrested by special SS units following the occupying forces.

family

In 1909 Packe married Mary Sydney Colebrooke, daughter of 1st Lord Colebrooke.

literature

  • Marian Kent: Oil and Empire , p. 196.
  • Who was Who: A Companion to Who's Who. Containing the Biographies of those who died during the Period , 1967, p. 877.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Entry on Packe on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Packe, Edward H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pack, Edward Hussey (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British administrator
DATE OF BIRTH January 6, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Leicestershire
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1946