Eric Phipps

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Sir Eric Clare Edmund Phipps GCB , GCMG , GCVO , PC (born October 27, 1875 , † August 13, 1945 ) was a British diplomat. Phipps was best known as the British ambassador to the German Reich between 1933 and 1937.

Life and diplomatic career

Phipps was born in 1875 to the British diplomat Sir Constantine Edmund Henry Phipps and his wife Maria Jane Miller-Mundy. After studying at King's College of Cambridge University Phipps went to the British diplomatic service, in which he was taken 1899th

This was followed by secretary posts at the British representations in Petrograd , Madrid and Paris before he took part in the Versailles Peace Conference in 1919 as British secretary.

In 1933 Phipps was sent to Berlin as the successor to Sir Horace Rumbold as British ambassador. In the following four years he warned the British government with increasing urgency of the aggressiveness of the National Socialist regime in Germany and in particular repeatedly emphasized the fact that this was an acceptance of its foreign policy actions without countermeasures being taken as a sign of weakness abroad and confirmation would take up its course, which it would then pursue at an even faster pace. One of his closest allies in his warnings to the British government was his brother-in-law, Robert Vansittart , who at the time was the permanent secretary of state in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office .

In 1937 Phipps was transferred to Paris as ambassador, where he worked until 1939.

Family and offspring

After Phipps' first marriage to Yvonne de Louvencourt in 1907 ended with the death of his wife in 1909, he married Frances Ward in 1911, with whom he had six children.