Ernst Eisenlohr

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Ernst Eisenlohr (born November 12, 1882 in Heidelberg , † January 20, 1958 in Badenweiler ) was a German diplomat and local politician.

Life

Grave of Ernst Eisenlohr in the Badenweiler-Lipburg cemetery

Eisenlohr was born in Heidelberg as the son of the Egyptologist August Eisenlohr and his wife Sofie Schreiber. Between 1900 and 1904 studied at the Universities of Heidelberg and Berlin law and joined the Baden judicial service on October 1, 1904th In 1905 he received his doctorate in law and then signed up as a one-year volunteer . In November 1909, Eisenlohr passed the assessor's examination and in 1911, after a short leave of absence to study languages, joined the foreign service. After participating in the First World War and training in São Paulo , Lisbon and Belgrade , he was envoy in Athens from 1931 to 1936 and in Prague from 1936 . There he represented the interests of the German Reich against the German exiles who had fled to Prague. Thus denounced it in a report on May 20, 1936 Thomas Mann , who "is now completely identified with the objectives of the German enemy emigration." He later denied that he had at that time received an order from Berlin, the expulsion of the Czech government of the Board the Sopade to demand. Eisenlohr was then replaced by Andor Hencke during the Sudeten crisis in 1938 and drafted into the Foreign Office , where he was employed until 1943.

Eisenlohr had not joined the NSDAP , but after the war , because of the spirit of the corps , he let his National Socialist colleagues in the Foreign Office write Persil notes for them .

Eisenlohr was mayor of Badenweiler from 1946 to 1955, and the municipality dedicated a street to him. His estate is kept in the Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Office .

His brother was the professor of chemistry Fritz Eisenlohr (1881–1957).

literature

  • Ernst Eisenlohr , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 15/1958 of March 31, 1958, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  • 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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Egon Hübinger: Thomas Mann, the University of Bonn and contemporary history: 3 chapters of the German past from the life of the poet 1905-1955 , Munich [u. a.]: Oldenbourg, 1974 ISBN 3-486-44031-4 , p. 524.
  2. ↑ Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes and Moshe Zimmermann : The office and the past . German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Munich 2010, p. 417f.
personal data
SURNAME Eisenlohr, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Heidelberg
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1958
Place of death Badenweiler