Erich Zechlin

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Erich Wilhelm Zechlin (born June 26, 1883 in Schivelbein , Western Pomerania ; † October 24, 1954 in Malmö , Sweden ) was a German diplomat and archivist .

Life

Zechlin, son of a student adviser and brother of Walter Zechlin , had studied history in Halle , Munich and Berlin and was awarded a doctorate in 1907. phil. PhD. In the same year he came to the Secret State Archives in Berlin as a volunteer . During his studies he became a member of the Association of German Students in Berlin . He then worked in the state archives of Danzig , Aurich and Posen . In 1916 he became a consultant in the administration of the Commander-in-Chief East for political affairs. In 1919 he was an expert for the German peace delegation in Versailles . In 1920 he was accepted into the Foreign Office . After he was appointed lecturer in 1924, he was appointed consul general in Leningrad in 1928 . From February 14, 1933 to June 1940, he was envoy to Kowno , Lithuania , and then to Helsinki , Finland .

After the end of the Second World War , Zechlin was arrested by the Soviet occupying forces in a sanatorium in Dresden in 1945 , on suspicion of having recruited Russians for espionage services for Germany during the war . Because of this charge, he was sentenced to ten years of forced labor and sent to central Siberia . Before serving his entire sentence, he returned to Germany in 1953.

Zechlin's written legacy from his diplomatic activities is kept in the archives of the Foreign Office.

Fonts

  • Lüneburg and its hospitals in the Middle Ages. 1907.
  • Ostland - yearbook for East German interests. Volume 1. Eulitz, Lissa 1912. With contributions by Albert Dietrich, Otto Hoetzsch , Manfred Lauber , Dietrich Schäfer , Max Sering , Leo Wegener , Kurt Wiedenfeld and Erich Zechlin.
  • Lithuania and its problems. In: International monthly for science, art and technology. Volume 10 December 1, 1915.
  • The distribution of population and land in Poland. Berlin 1916.
  • Poland. In: Gerhard Anschütz and Fritz Berolzheimer (Hrsg.): Handbuch der Politik. Volume II: The World War. Berlin and Leipzig 1920, p. 325 ff.

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. 5. T – Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , pp. 355 f.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia . 2nd edition (Rudolf Vierhaus, ed.), Volume 10, Saur, Munich 2008, p. 806.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ The Zechlins. Family and descendants tables of Achim Segelin 1541 in Kyritz, Lentz Zechlin around 1600 in Scharlibbe u. Jürgen Zechlin around 1700 in Stolper Land, edited by Cläre Maillard , b. Zechlin, Berlin 1937. An earlier version of the book was created in 1912 by Erich Zechlin
  2. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 254.
  3. ↑ Archive guide on the history of the Memel region and German-Lithuanian relations (= writings of the Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in Eastern Europe , Volume 27, edited by Christian Gahlbeck and Vacys Vaivada, edited by Joachim Tauber and Tobias Weger ). Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 9783486579024 , p. 422 ff. ( Limited preview )
personal data
SURNAME Zechlin, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zechlin, Erich Wilhelm (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH June 26, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Schivelbein , Western Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1954
Place of death Malmo