Eugene Klee

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Eugen Klee (born December 24, 1887 in Cochem , † December 19, 1956 in Bonn ) was a German ambassador .

Life

Eugen Klee attended high school in Koblenz. Eugen Klee studied law and political science at the Universities of Lausanne , Munich , Berlin and Halle . Eugen Klee did studies in France, Spain and Italy .

Klee was a trainee lawyer at the Naumburg Higher Regional Court . Klee was at the University of Greifswald to Doctor of Law and at the Albertina (Koenigsberg) Dr. phil. PhD . Klee was a trainee lawyer at the Cochem District Court and later at the Berlin Regional Court .

In 1914 Klee volunteered as a war volunteer , was retired as not fit for field service and was appointed as a trainee lawyer at the court martial of the Guard Corps .

In 1918, Klee was accepted into the foreign service as an attaché . In 1920 Klee was accredited as legation secretary at the embassy of the German Reich to the Holy See and promoted to the legation council in 1924. In 1926 he was accredited at the Consulate General in New York .

On July 20, 1933, Eugen Klee d'Affaires ad interim to the Holy See and participated in the signing of the Reich Concordat in the Vatican in part. On September 10, 1933, Eugen Klee exchanged the ratification documents of the Reich Concordat with Pacelli .

Eugen Klee was married to Marie-Elisabeth Klee (1922–2018).

Honors

literature

  • Eugen Klee , In: International Biographical Archive. 15/1957 of April 1, 1957, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  • Eugene Klee. In: Jörg Koch: Marie-Elisabeth Klee. Life pictures of a European woman from Worms. Worms 2017, ISBN 978-3-944380-57-5 , pp. 54-87.
  • Petra Lambertz: Dr. Dr. Eugen and Marie-Elisabeth Klee, A Married Couple Writes Contemporary History , Heimatjahrbuch (HJB) Cochem-Zell 2019, pp. 145–154

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Georg May: Ludwig Kaas. The priest, the politician and the scholar from Ulrich Stutz's school. BR Grüner, Amsterdam 1982, ISBN 90-6032-199-5 , p. 396 (digital copy)
predecessor Office successor
Karl Pistor Ambassador of the German Reich in Quito / Ecuador
November 10, 1936 to January 27, 1942 		Joachim Kühn
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in San Salvador / El Salvador
1951 to 1955 		Bernd Eugen Mumm from Schwarzenstein
Hugo Otto Danckers Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Managua / Nicaragua
January 21, 1953 to August 1954 		Georg Korth
Franz Ferring Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Guatemala City
1954 to 1956 		Karl Heinrich Panhorst
personal data
SURNAME Klee, Eugene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Cochem
DATE OF DEATH December 19, 1956
Place of death Bonn