Erhard Graf von Wedel

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Erhard Graf von Wedel , completely Erhard Alfred Ernst Thilo Graf von Wedel , (born November 20, 1879 in Weimar , † October 27, 1955 in Weimar), was a German lawyer and diplomat in the Foreign Service .

Life

Wedel was a son of the Weimar court marshal Oskar Graf von Wedel (1835-1908) and Maria von Wedel , née Countess Beust (1855-1913), who wrote under the pseudonym Marie Witilo . He remained unmarried.

After completing his legal training as a court assessor in 1908, he joined the Foreign Service in 1909 . He was legation secretary in Athens, Paris and Sofia before participating in the First World War from 1915. He then worked again in the foreign service, including a. in Copenhagen, Paris and Memel.

Wedel joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1931 . In his writings he repeatedly expressed himself positively, sometimes enthusiastically, about National Socialism. In 1941 he wrote in retrospect about the first Nazi party rally outside Bavaria, in 1926 in his hometown of Weimar: “Ten thousand enthusiastic supporters and fighters of that great popular movement, which, under brilliant leadership, takes the difficult work of resurrection on its young shoulders and thus becomes the starting point for a new one German future, march past the former place of renunciation in brown shirts. Here the blood flag of the movement is consecrated anew, from here the Hitler Youth takes their wonderful ascent to the greatest youth movement of all time and from here the Führer rouses his people with rousing force to a new birth and new life! "

Between 1934 and 1937 he served as the German envoy in Paraguay and was then Minister Plenipotentiary in the Foreign Office.

Fonts

  • Bismarck and Weimar. From grandparents' diaries and letters. in: Berliner Monatshefte , April 1940, pp. 216–223.
  • Memories of my diplomatic years in Paris [1911–1913]. in: Berliner Monatshefte , June 1940, pp. 357–369.
  • Memories of my diplomatic years in Paris [1920–1921]. in: Berliner Monatshefte , July 1940, pp. 434–445.
  • Weimar and the German Empire. in: Berliner Monatshefte , April 1941, pp. 255–271.
  • "Après la défaite". Bertrand de Jouvenel's findings and conclusions. in: Berliner Monatshefte , May 1941, pp. 354–368.
  • Between the wars. in: Berliner Monatshefte , October 1941, pp. 675–678.
  • Goethe and Ernst August von Gersdorff (from old family papers). in: Berliner Monatshefte , August 1942, pp. 382–387.
  • (Ed.) Between Emperor and Chancellor. Notes from Adjutant General Count Carl von Wedel from the years 1890–1894. Koehler & Amelang, Leipzig 1943.

literature

  • Wolf Christian von Wedel Parlow : East Elbian nobility under National Socialism. Family memories using the example of the fronds. V & R Unipress, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8470-0758-6 . Pp. 57-61.
  • Tobias C. Bringmann, Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815–1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. Munich 2001, p.75.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wolf Christian von Wedel-Parlow, Ostelbischer Adel Nationalozialismus, p. 60.
  2. ↑ Erhard Graf von Wedel, Weimar and the German Reichsgedanke, Berliner Monatshefte, April 1941, p. 270 - quoted from: Wolf Christian von Wedel-Parlow, Ostelbischer Adel im Nationalozialismus, pp. 60–61.
personal data
SURNAME Wedel, Erhard Graf von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wedel, Erhard Alfred Ernst Thilo Graf von (full name); Wedel, Erhard von; Wedel, Erhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1879
PLACE OF BIRTH Weimar
DATE OF DEATH October 27, 1955
Place of death Weimar