Erica Pappritz

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Erica Pappritz

Erica Pappritz (born June 25, 1893 in Lissa ; † February 4, 1972 in Bonn ) was Deputy Head of Protocol in the Foreign Office during the Adenauer era and sparked a discussion about the etiquette she gave to the Bonn Republic in the 1950s and 1960s sought to prescribe.

Life

Erica Pappritz was born as the daughter of an officer ( Rittmeister ). At times her name was eradicated as "Freifrau von" (based on the noble Marie Luise Kaschnitz ). Pappritz originally wanted to be a nurse, nurse or doctor. But her parents were against it, so she didn't embark on this career.

After completing a commercial apprenticeship, Erica Pappritz took on a job in the office of the newly established foreign trade office of the Foreign Office in 1919 and later became an employee of the head of the acceptance and training department for young diplomatic and consular trainees. According to her own account, her duties also included looking after the diplomatic corps at the Nazi party rallies in Nuremberg. On January 1, 1940, she joined the NSDAP . In 1943, the chief of protocol, Alexander Freiherr von Dörnberg , ensured that Erica Pappritz received the salary of a first class councilor on her 50th birthday. Most recently she was head of the ceremonial and rank issues department at the Foreign Office on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin . Before the end of the war, on official instructions, she left for Bavaria with other state officials. Nothing is known about their denazification .

In 1949 she became a consultant and personal deputy to the then chief of protocol in the Federal Chancellery, Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld ; In 1950 he was transferred to the Foreign Affairs Office, which was later to become the Foreign Office, which was subordinate to the Federal Chancellery. In 1952 she was appointed Legation Councilor and deputy chief of protocol in the German Foreign Office . As head of department in the protocol department, she also gave lessons in the field of protocol, initially in the training facility of the Foreign Office in Speyer, and later in Bonn.

In 1956, The Book of Etiquette by Karlheinz Graudenz and Erica Pappritz came out, which aroused strong public criticism when it was published. According to Spiegel , people “in the protocol department [...] really resented Pappritz for having embarrassed the whole department, which is permanently smelled of ridiculousness anyway.” The conservative columnist Friedrich Sieburg commented: “All those involved would be served if Miss Pappritz ... took her well-deserved retirement. "

Pappritz retired in 1958. After her retirement, she occasionally gave lectures on etiquette for tourism companies, steel companies and other representatives of the West German economy. She died of heart failure in 1972.

The book of etiquette

The book of etiquette , published in 1956 , on which Pappritz had taken part, gave rules of behavior down to the smallest detail. In addition to the rules for good behavior and appropriate clothing, it even prescribed the frequency with which the toilet had to be flushed, which was soon mocked as pulling the Eti chain .

Not only Konrad Adenauer teased about the book, the Rhenish carnivalists also took on the most unusual rules of propriety, for example the ban on long underpants ("Long underpants remain unmanly and ugly, even if hardly anyone sees them"): "Cut on the Bonn market square "said told Der Spiegel ," a monokelbewehrte pseudo Pappritz before jubilant carnival folk pant legs of long men's underpants on. "Even the artist and humorist Loriot , who for the magazine at that time Quick counselors parody Top sound drew and wrote the lyrics, devoted his own contribution to the book under the title What Mrs. Pappritz was hiding , with which he wanted to fill in “some dangerous gaps in the work”. The book's motto, "Where we are is up," was replaced in later editions. Josef Müller-Marein called the work in one with symptom Pappritz: The wrong good sound overwritten time -Article a "tome a snob for highly praiseworthy use for snobs wrote". The main author Karlheinz Graudenz took Pappritz's protection against it and emphasized that she had primarily worked as an advisor on the book.

The German Bundestag even dealt with the behavior book in a debate. The then senior parliamentarian Marie Elisabeth Lüders described it as arrogant, disreputable and tactless. The SPD politician Annemarie Renger criticized in particular that Pappritz had given the book an official character through her co-authorship. The Foreign Office replied to a corresponding small inquiry that Pappritz was only active as a private writer and that the book was not the basis of diplomatic training.

Fonts

  • Karlheinz Graudenz, collaboration with Erica Pappritz: The book of etiquette ; Perlen-Verlag, Marbach am Neckar 1956
  • Karlheinz Graudenz and Erica Pappritz: New label ; Südwest-Verlag, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-517-00026-4
  • Erica Pappritz: New etiquette. The etiquette from the economic miracle new, shortened edition; Verlag-Anstalt Handwerk, Düsseldorf 2008, ISBN 978-3-87864-919-9

literature

  • Biography in: Ursula Müller, Christiane Scheidemann (Hrsg.): Skilful, sent and sent. Women in the diplomatic service. Olzog Verlag, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-7892-8041-0
  • 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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e The depth of the mind . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1957, pp. 16-26 ( Online - Mar. 20, 1957 ).
  2. ↑ cf. Schmölders: "The return of courtesy", Südwestfunk 2005
  3. ↑ Zeitmosaik Die Zeit No. 23, June 6, 1957
  4. ↑ a b Died: Erica Pappritz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1972, p. 148 ( Online - Feb. 14, 1972 ).
  5. ↑ Professional: Erica Pappritz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1959, pp. 65 ( Online - Feb. 11, 1959 ). Quote: "Erica Pappritz, 65, retired Bonn master of ceremonies, spoke to 130 tour guides in Hanover on behalf of Scharnow - Reisen - KG on the subject of 'The holiday guest within the conventions of human coexistence'."
  6. ^ Social issues : Erica Pappritz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1959, pp. 79 ( Online - Apr. 15, 1959 ). Quote: "Erica Pappritz, 65, former guardian of Bonn etiquette ('Do you know the exciting feeling of being freshly washed?'), Was hired by the Düsseldorf steel company Mannesmann AG to give behavioral lectures to employees in the advertising department."
  7. ↑ Erica Pappritz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1958, pp. 65 ( online - December 17, 1958 ).
  8. ↑ Der Spiegel reported ... In: Der Spiegel . No. 19 , 1957, pp. 66 ( Online - Mar. 6, 1957 ).
  9. ^ Stefan Neumann: Loriot and the high comedy. Life, work and work of Vicco von Bülow . Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, Trier 2011, ISBN 978-3-86821-298-3 , p. 171-172 .
  10. ↑ Symptom Pappritz: The wrong good tone , Die Zeit No. 10, March 7, 1957
  11. ↑ https://www.meaus.com/erica-pappritz-archiv.htm , accessed on October 26, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Cardboard box, Erica
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and scandal writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Lissa
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1972
Place of death Bonn