Erich von Luckwald

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Erich Franz von Luckwald (born February 19, 1884 in Goslar ; † February 11, 1969 ) was a German diplomat who was, among other things, envoy to the Kingdom of Albania between 1934 and 1936 .

Life

He was the second son of the future Prussian Lieutenant General Erich von Luckwald (1852-1929) and his wife Margarethe, née von Fiedler. His older brother Franz (* 1880) fell as a captain in Reserve Infantry Regiment No. 64 on October 12, 1914 near Ivangorod on the Eastern Front .

After attending school, Luckwald did his military service in the Prussian Army . He then began in 1906 to study law at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which he graduated in 1909. In 1909 he also completed his doctorate as Dr. iur. from. In the same year, after successfully completing the legal state exams, he joined the judicial service of Prussia and, in 1910, the foreign service of the German Empire . In the following years he was deployed in the diplomatic missions in Antwerp , Sofia and Saint Petersburg .

At the beginning of the First World War , Luckwald was called up for military service again in 1914. On July 15, 1915, he was assigned to the Grand Headquarters as Secretary of the Legation , where he was a representative of the Foreign Office from February 1916 to 1918 . On March 4, 1917, he was an employee of the Foreign Office's intelligence department and was initially on leave after the end of the First World War, before he was made without employment on September 29, 1919 and then left the diplomatic service. In 1921 he became an employee of the Berlin- based Disconto-Gesellschaft .

In 1926 Luckwald returned to the service of the Foreign Office and, as the successor to Hermann Hoffmann-Fölkersamb, was initially vice -consul between 1926 and 1928 and finally consul in Łódź from 1928 to 1930 . In this function he was much more aggressive than his predecessor in demanding the support of the Reich government for the support of the German minority in Poland . He and the German envoy to Poland , Ulrich Rauscher , were staunch supporters of August Utta , who represented the German minority in central Poland in the Sejm .

1930 Luckwald successor to Siegfried Hey as charge d'affaires at the consulate in Tirana . His title was subsequently adapted several times: he was consul from 1931 and consul and chargé d'affaires from 1932. On October 27, 1934, he was finally appointed envoy to the Kingdom of Albania . At the same time he was head of the local NSDAP liaison office , which he had joined in 1932 (membership number 1.370.712). On December 11, 1936, he was replaced; his successor in Tirana was Eberhard von Pannwitz , who was previously a member of the legation at the legation in Poland . In the 1930s he had a country house at Schwanenallee 5 designed and built by the architect Otto von Estorff in the Potsdam suburb of Berlin .

Luckwald himself then succeeded Otto von Radowitz as Consul General in the Free City of Danzig in 1936 and remained in this post until he was replaced by Martin von Janson in 1938. He then worked at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin between 1938 and 1943 he last acted from 1943 to 1945 as the successor to Werner Gerlach as a representative of the Foreign Office in the rank of envoy to the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia . Von Luckwald had been a member of the SS since 1939 and had the rank of Obersturmbannführer since 1943 .

On April 6, 1945 Luckwald was among the participants a performance of the propaganda film Theresienstadt , as this Otto Lehner and Paul Dunant, two delegates of the International Red Cross was shown. These were accompanied by the Swiss diplomat Buchmüller. In addition, the SS-Standartenführer Erwin Weinmann , the commander of the Security Police and the SD of the Protectorate, as well as a further employee of the Foreign Office, Legation Councilor Eberhard von Thadden were present.

publication

  • Albania: land between yesterday and tomorrow. Photo book, Munich 1942.

literature

  • Luckwald, Erich von , in: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger (arr.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 , Volume 3, L – R. ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , pp. 129ff.
  • Marek Andrzejewski: Ludzie Wolnego Miasta Gdańska (1920-1939), informator biograficzny. Marpress Gdańsk 1997, ISBN 83-87291-27-7 , p. 79.
  • Robert Elsie: A Biographical Dictionary of Albanian History , IBTauris London / New York 2012, p. 290 (online version)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry in Gedbas
  2. ↑ German Officer Association (Ed.): Honor ranking list of the former German Army. ES Mittler & Sohn , Berlin 1926, p. 110.
  3. ↑ Holger Afflerbach : Falkenhayn: Political Thinking and Action in the Kaiserreich , 1996, pp. 373, 415, ISBN 3-48682-982-3
  4. ↑ Karl-Heinz Janßen : The change in the Supreme Army Command 1916 , in: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , 1959, issue 4, p. 346 (footnote 31)
  5. ↑ Kurt Riezler , Karl Dietrich Erdmann : Diaries, Essays, Documents , 1972, p. 302, ISBN 3-52535-817-2
  6. ^ Winson Chu: The German Minority in Interwar Poland , 2012, pp. 147, 149, ISBN 1-10700-830-1
  7. ↑ Ingo Eser: “People, State, God!”: The German minority in Poland and their school system 1918-1939 , 2010, pp. 335 ff., ISBN 3-44706-233-9
  8. ↑ Michael Schmidt-Neke : Development and expansion of the royal dictatorship in Albania (1912-1939) : Formations of government, rule and power elites in a young Balkan state , 1987, pp. 239, 244, ISBN 3-48654-321-0
  9. ^ Files from the NSDAP party chancellery: Reconstruction of a lost inventory , 1983, p. 702, ISBN 3-48651-801-1
  10. ↑ Potsdam Berlin suburb.
  11. ↑ Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes , Moshe Zimmermann : The Office and the Past: German Diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , 2010, ISBN 3-64105-091-X
  12. ↑ "The donated city" or "Theresienstadt - a documentary film from the Jewish settlement area"
personal data
SURNAME Luckwald, Erich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Luckwald, Erich Franz von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 19, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1969