Eugen Feihl

Eugen Feihl (born April 17, 1889 in Schwäbisch Gmünd , † May 15, 1964 in Rotterdam ) was a German journalist and diplomat .

Life

Feihl attended the Evangelical Seminary in Maulbronn and Blaubeuren , in 1907 he graduated from high school. In the winter semester of 1907/08 he began studying archeology , philology and history at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . Here he joined the student union Landsmannschaft Scotland . Further study trips to Rome, Paris and Halle (Saale) followed. He completed his studies in 1913 with a doctorate as Dr. phil with the dissertation The Ficoronische Cista and Polygnot .

In November of the same year he became editor of the Stuttgarter Neue Tagblatt . After working at the Strasbourg post office , Feihl joined the Kölnische Zeitung in 1918 . In early 1919 he became their foreign policy representative in Berlin and from 1924 he was a correspondent in Paris.

On June 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP and now made a career in the National Socialist bureaucracy. From October 1934 Feihl was, initially as an employee of the Reich Propaganda Ministry, press advisory board and later press chief of the German embassy in Paris. In 1939 he was promoted to the Legation Council . After a stay at the embassy in Bern, Feihl came to Constance in September 1944 . Here he took over the development and management of the information center of the German Embassy in Paris until 1945. He then headed the interpreting office of the city administration of Konstanz and from January 1, 1950 he became a consultant at the German Peace Office in Stuttgart.

In July 1950, Feihl was reassigned to the Foreign Service , first at the Federal Chancellery in the Foreign Affairs Office and later at the Federal Government's Press and Information Office . In February 1953 he was appointed consul 1st class, and in March 1953 he was entrusted with the re-establishment of the German consulate in Naples, which he took over. In April 1954, Feihl was finally retired. In 1962 he testified that no anti-Semitic tendencies were persecuted at the embassy in Paris , but on the contrary helped Jews seeking help, and that he had only heard rumors about the Holocaust.

Fonts

• Paris, Germany seen from outside , Metzner Verlag, Berlin 1934.
• Heinrich Heine, Selected Poems , Johannes Asmus Verlag, 1946.

literature

• Heinrich Münzenmaier (Ed.): History of the Scottish Landsmannschaft zu Tübingen 1849 to 1924 .
• Keipert, Maria / Grupp, Peter / Historical Service of the Foreign Office (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945, Volume 1: AF , Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ahlrich Meyer : perpetrators in interrogation. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France 1940–1944 , Darmstadt 2005, p. 324; P. 432 ISBN 3-534-17564-6