Franz Quiring
Franz Quiring (born May 5, 1892 in Landsberg / Warthe , † February 19, 1957 in Cologne ) was a German diplomat during the National Socialist era and ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Life
The son of the doctor Hermann Quiring attended the grammar school in Landsberg and the grammar school for the Holy Cross in Dresden . After serving in the First World War from 1914 to 1918 , most recently in the rank of lieutenant d. R., he completed his studies in economics, history and philosophy in Berlin with a doctorate in 1920 .
On May 5, 1920 he entered the foreign service and was initially employed in the embassy in Moscow and the consulate in Kharkov . Further assignments took him to Cairo , Brussels and from 1930 to 1934 as a consul in the Consulate General in Katowice , then to Madrid , Paris and Geneva . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP .
After the end of the campaign in the west , he was used from June 22, 1940 at the agent of the AA at the military commander in France . Under the ambassador Otto Abetz he headed the consular department as consul general. Together with the Ambassador Abetz, he ensured the expatriation of the German Jews who had fled to France before 1939 and delivered lists of names of the “full Jews” concerned to Undersecretary Martin Luther in Berlin. From 1942 the Jews were deported from France to the Auschwitz concentration camp , in which the Vichy regime and the German embassy worked together. From 1944 Quiring looked after the members of the Vichy government who had fled to Sigmaringen .
After the end of the war, Quiring was a French prisoner of war until February 1946. Nothing is known about its denazification . He then worked for the Kosmos press service in Baden-Baden and in 1950 received a position in the public service again. On October 6, 1954, he returned to the Foreign Service and was appointed the Federal Republic's first envoy in Kabul .
literature
- 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 .
- Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes , Moshe Zimmermann : The Office and the Past . German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Conze u. a., The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Munich 2010, p. 179.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Quiring, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landsberg / Warthe |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th February 1957 |
| Place of death | Cologne |