Felix Tripeloury

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Felix Tripeloury (born December 25, 1887 in Berlin ; † August 10, 1945 ) was a German lawyer, diplomat and civil servant.

After attending school, Tripeloury studied law. He completed his studies in 1912 with a doctorate as Dr. jur at the University of Greifswald . Tripeloury then joined the Foreign Service : from 1926 to 1933 he worked in the press department of the Reich Government, which was part of the Foreign Office , but was located outside of it. Since 1932, Secretary of the Legation , Tripeloury was transferred to the Foreign Office itself in 1933. After the seizure of power by the Nazis, he was from April 1933 to the end of this year in Speaker Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda . In the following years he was Legation Councilor in the Foreign Office and became consul in Brazzaville . Politically, Tripeloury belonged to the German National People's Party (DNVP) during the Weimar period from 1928 to 1932, and from 1933 to the NSDAP . His father-in-law was the diplomat Albert Dufour von Féronce , the longtime deputy general secretary of the League of Nations , whose adopted daughter Tripeloury married.

During the Second World War was Tripeloury German Charge d'Affaires in Chile and Costa Rica . He was interned in the USA in 1941/42 . After that he was most recently employed in the news and press department of the Foreign Office and was promoted to Legation Councilor 1st class in 1944. Due to the war, his department was relocated to Plauen at the end of 1944 , where he was arrested on May 20, 1945 after the war ended. On July 24, 1945 he was sentenced to death by a Soviet military tribunal for war crimes and executed by shooting on August 10, 1945.

Fonts

  • Is the heritable building right, its in the BGB. according to the legal construction made, suitable to bring about a solution to the small apartment issue? , Greifswald 1912. (Dissertation)

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 .
  • Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944–1947). A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , pp. 716–717.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Stephan: Eight Decades of Experienced Germany , 1983, p. 166.
personal data
SURNAME Tripeloury, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer, diplomat and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH December 25, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 10, 1945