Ernst Kundt (diplomat)

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Ernst Kundt (born September 27, 1883 in Karlsruhe , † August 13, 1974 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Ernst Kundt grew up as the son of the bookseller Ernst Kundt in Karlsruhe and attended the Bismarck-Gymnasium there . He studied philology, law and economics in Munich, Berlin and Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in 1907. From 1910 he was employed at the Chamber of Commerce in Brandenburg an der Havel , from 1911 at the Central Information Office for Emigrants of the German Colonial Society in Berlin. After the outbreak of the First World War, the central information center was incorporated into the Foreign Office , after the end of the war it was again incorporated into the Reich Migration Office of the Reich Ministry of the Interior , where Kundt served as a councilor in 1920. Since 1924 Kundt was employed in the Foreign Office in the field of emigration. Kundt joined the German People's Party (DVP) in 1919 and was temporarily a city ​​councilor in Berlin.

Kundt joined the NSDAP in April 1933 after power was handed over to the National Socialists . In 1934 he was promoted to legation councilor and in 1944 to lecturing councilor.

Ernst Kundt was the leader and namesake of the Kundt Commission, which in 1940 in occupied France in the docked by the French internment camps of the Nazi regime loyal German internees and extradition of refugees from Germany to the release Gestapo caused.

Nothing is known about Kundt's denazification . Between 1961 and 1966 Kundt was again employed in the political archive of the Federal Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Fonts

  • Lessing and the book trade , dissertation Heidelberg 1907
  • Allied war crimes, material for the German counter-calculation . Berlin-Wilmersdorf Cecilien-Buchh. 1921

literature

  • Foreign Office (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 , Volume 2 G – K, Paderborn 2005 ISBN 3-506-71841-X , pp. 703f

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Federal Archives , u. a. (Ed.): The persecution and murder of European Jews by National Socialist Germany 1933–1945 , 5. Western and Northern Europe: 1940 - June 1942 . 2012, p. 590, fn. 7
personal data
SURNAME Announces, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Karlsruhe
DATE OF DEATH August 13, 1974
Place of death Frankfurt am Main