Ernst Wendler

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Ernst Wendler

Ernst Wendler (born April 24, 1890 in Ulm ; † March 31, 1986 in Reutlingen ) was a German diplomat and entrepreneur.

Life

Wendler's parents were the textile manufacturer Eberhard Wendler (1864–1933) and his wife Wilhelmine geb. Reinwald (1865-1932). He attended the later Friedrich-List-Gymnasium Reutlingen and left it in the summer of 1907 with the Abitur. He began to study law at the Ludwig Maximilians University . He reciprocated in the Corps Suevia Munich in 1908, and did the first batch in the 1909 summer semester . In 1909 he was the founding senior of the Eisenach cartel in Eisenach. By changing his place to study at the Hessian Ludwig University , he was still active in the Hassia Gießen cartel corps . In the summer of 1911 he passed the first law exam.

Württemberg

Since July 1911 in the judicial service of the Kingdom of Württemberg , he joined the Württemberg Army on October 1, 1911 as a one-year volunteer . From the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg he was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD. From day one he took part in the First World War as an air officer. As a squadron captain in the Boelcke Fighter Wing, he was wounded several times and was awarded the Iron Cross of both classes. As a lieutenant in the reserve, he was released from the army at the end of 1918, and after the end of the monarchy on December 31, 1918, he also resigned from the Württemberg civil service. From January 1, 1919 to 1921, he was managing director of Gebr. Wendler GmbH in Reutlingen.

Foreign service

He was drafted into the Foreign Service on December 10, 1921 , and was assigned to Division III (British Empire, America, Orient) as an attaché. On October 2, 1922, he moved to Dept. IVa (Eastern Europe, Scandinavia). After he had passed the diplomatic-consular examination on May 29, 1923, he was appointed as Legation Secretary to the German Embassy in London on June 23, 1923 . From July 1926 in the special section W / Economy and since April 28, 1927 Legation Councilor , he was temporarily employed in July / August 1928 at the Warsaw Legation (under Ulrich Rauscher ). He was then consul from February 25, 1929 to April 20, 1930 at the Consulate General in Batavia (Dutch East Indies) . From May 5 to November 4, 1930 he was at the Consulate General in Sydney . The social problems caused by unemployment in the crisis years 1931 and 1932 preoccupied Wendler so much that he took a two-year leave of absence from the Foreign Office and founded the People's Service in Reutlingen and other cities in Württemberg . Many hundreds of unemployed young men found shelter and work in this self-help campaign. The so-called seizure of power by the National Socialists overtook the task that Wendler had set himself with the people's service. On April 1, 1932, he took over the management of Section E / Emigration, Inquiries in Section VI (Culture). Since December 22, 1932 Legation Council II. Class, he came on May 22, 1934 as Consul to New Orleans . In the army (Wehrmacht) he was made captain d. R. promoted. He received the title of Consul General on October 5, 1936 and was appointed envoy in La Paz on August 6, 1937 . During the Second World War , on October 13, 1941, he took over the management of the embassy in Bangkok . On February 25, 1943 he was appointed envoy. In Bangkok he saw the capitulation of Japan and the end of the world war.

Reutlingen

In 1946 he returned to Germany. After a year internship , he returned to his parents' company Wendler as managing director. He worked successfully for over 25 years and chaired the shareholders' meeting until the end . He was local and district chairman of the German Red Cross in Reutlingen. He was very committed to the reconstitution of his corps in the Munich Seniors' Convention .

Marriages

On May 31, 1913, Wendler married Edith Müller (1891-1919). The marriage has three sons. Gerhard, born in 1914, became a Munich Swabian in 1933. He fell in April 1941 as an Air Force officer with Keramidi. The son Ernst, born in 1917, died in Russia in 1943 as a first lieutenant on the Siwerskyj Donets . There was also another son and daughter Marlis. On September 18, 1920, Wendler married the novelist Dr. Clara Ratzka-Ernst. His third marriage was on February 8, 1930 with Käthe Barth. Wanka a. It only lasted four years. His fourth wife Käthe geb. Müller, daughter of a Gießen Teuton, looked after him in the last weeks of his life.

Memberships

Works

  • People's service is necessary. An outline in 99 guiding principles . Berlin 1930.
  • as editor: Voluntary People's Service. Communications from the Volksbund to promote voluntary people's service . Reutlingen 1931-1932.
  • Chronicle of the Wendler company . Private print 1968.

See also

literature

  • León Enrique Bieber : Pugna por influencia y hegemonia. La rivalidad germaneostadounidense en Bolivia 1936-1946 . Frankfurt am Main 2004, pp. 122-130.
  • Cole Blasier : The United States, Germany, and the Bolivian revolutionaries (1941-1946) , in: The Hispanic American Historical Review 52 (1973), H. 1, pp. 26-54.

Web links

Commons : Ernst Wendler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 114/1320; 97/1057
  2. ↑ Dissertation: The criminal treatment of the participation of several people in the crime and the concept of "participation" .
  3. ↑ In May 1981, the Reutlinger General-Anzeiger recalled Wendler's voluntary service with a detailed report.
  4. ↑ a b c d Tabular biogram in the Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Office
  5. ↑ “Die Trausnitz” [Corps newspaper of Suevia Munich] No. 2/1986, pp. 24-25
  6. ^ Chronicle of the Wendler company
  7. ↑ See Balkan Campaign (1941) #Operationen in Greece
personal data
SURNAME Wendler, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German envoy in Bolivia and Thailand, entrepreneur in Reutlingen
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Ulm
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 1986
Place of death Reutlingen