Ernst Wilhelm Meyer (politician)

Ernst Wilhelm Meyer (born April 2, 1892 in Leobschütz , Silesia , † May 15, 1969 in Berlin , also Ernst-Wilhelm Meyer ) was a German scientist and politician ( SPD ).

Life and work

Meyer, who was of Protestant faith, studied law in Breslau , where he had been a member of the Corps Marcomannia since 1910 . After the Second State Examination (1921) he joined the Foreign Service of the Weimar Republic . After serving as counselor in Athens , Belgrade and Washington, DC , he resigned from the diplomatic service in 1937 and became a professor of political science at Bucknell University in Pennsylvania . In 1947 he returned to Germany, as he had been appointed to a chair for political science at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . From 1952 to 1957 he returned to the diplomatic service as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in New Delhi . From 1957 he worked as an honorary professor in Frankfurt am Main.

Ernst Wilhelm Meyer died in Berlin in 1969 at the age of 77. His grave is in the forest cemetery in Zehlendorf .

MP

Meyer was a member of the German Bundestag from 1957 to 1965. From 1958 to 1966 he was also a member of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe .

literature

• Ernst Wilhelm Meyer , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 28/1969 of June 30, 1969, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Ernst Wilhelm Meyer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law (online version)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende: Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 , p. 634.