Erich Boltze

This article deals with the diplomat Erich Boltze. For the resistance fighter of the same name, see Erich Boltze (communist) .

Portrait of Erich Boltze

Grave of Erich Boltze in the forest cemetery Oberrad

Erich Boltze (born September 17, 1891 in Trier , † March 18, 1981 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German diplomat .

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Boltze attended grammar school in Poznan and then studied law in Tübingen , Berlin and Bonn . From 1910 he was a member of the Corps Suevia Tübingen . In the summer of 1913 he received his doctorate with the thesis "The state and administrative position of foreigners under Prussian and imperial law". jur. and worked as a trainee lawyer at the district court in Suhl . Between 1913 and 1914 he served as a one-year volunteer with the Cuirassier Regiment in Halberstadt . During the First World War he did military service until 1918.

Then Boltze became a government trainee in Merseburg . A year later he became an employee of the Foreign Office . At first he worked in the embassies in Stockholm and Budapest . In 1926, Boltze was secretary of the German League of Nations delegation . In 1930 he became the first delegate to move to the embassy in The Hague . Between 1937 and 1938 he was deputy chief of protocol in Berlin. After that he was from 1938 envoy and ambassador to Japan and China . On May 1, 1938, he joined the NSDAP . In April 1948 Boltze returned to Germany. Nothing is known about its denazification . At first he worked as a freelancer.

From 1950 he was involved in the separation of the former group at IG Farben in Liquidation. In 1953 Boltze returned to the Foreign Service and from September onwards he was appointed Minister Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany in New Zealand , where he prepared the establishment of the German Embassy. He retired in 1957. After that he occasionally took on special tasks for the Foreign Office. In 1957, for example, he was head of a delegation of experts in Saigon . In the same year Boltze was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

His younger brother Friedrich Otto Boltze (1898–1983) was the first general manager of the Franco-German Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Paris and was married to Bertha Freiin von Rotenhan .

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .
• Munzinger: International Biographical Archive. 36, 1981 of August 24, 1981.

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