Friedrich August Heyer

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Friedrich August Heyer (born April 15, 1871 in Schridlau , West Prussia , † August 18, 1959 in Berlin ) was a German consular officer . Like no other, he dealt with the finances and administration of the United Kingdom in the interwar period.

Life

Heyer attended the Askanische Gymnasium in Berlin and the state school at the gate . After graduating from high school in Schulpforta at Easter 1891 , he studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrichs University in Halle . In February 1892 he became a member of the Corps Palaiomarchia . On July 7, 1894, he passed the trainee exam . Since August 2, 1894 in the judicial service of the Kingdom of Prussia , he passed the assessor examination on February 18, 1899 . In December of the same year he received his doctorate as Dr. iur. On May 8, 1900, he was drafted into the Foreign Service (consular career). In Department II concerned with trade policy, he was seconded to the new Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main in March 1902 and transferred to the Consulate General in New York City on May 23, 1902 .

USA and Central America

Vice-Consul, characterized since August 11, 1902 , on August 6, 1903, he took over the acting management of the Consulate General in San Francisco . From October 27, 1903 to November 30, 1904, he was at the consulate in Chicago , in the meantime (1904) in Havana . Since January 24, 1905 back in New York, he took over the acting management of the consulates in San José (Costa Rica) and Managua on July 3, 1905 .

Turkey and India

On October 13, 1905 he was given the status of consul. On March 13, 1907, he came to Constantinople as Vice Consul . Recalled to the trade policy department on January 25, 1908, he was sent to Bombay on November 21 of the same year . In 1910/11 he was also acting head of the Royal Norwegian Consulate.

Netherlands

After the outbreak of the First World War, he was temporarily assigned to the AA on October 9, 1914, at the Consulate General in Amsterdam . He was given temporary retirement a month later but remained employed. As a consul z. D. took over the establishment and management of the new Vice Consulate in Maastricht on February 10, 1915 . From September 1915 to December 1919 he was back in Amsterdam.

Great Britain

After the November Revolution he was from December 10, 1919 in Department I responsible for personnel and administration, budget, cash and credit matters. From February 7, 1921 in Dept. VIII (Law) and from May 27, 1921 in Dept. V (Great Britain and British Empire), he was appointed consul of the new consulate in Glasgow on July 12, 1921 ; After starting work at the German Embassy in London on September 3, 1921, he took over the business as Consul 1st class on April 6, 1922. He stayed in this post in Glasgow for a good 14 years until June 23, 1936. Retired May 1936, he was a regular guest of the Masurians in Berlin .

family

Heyer's parents were Otto Heyer (manor owner, then insurance director) and Sophie Heyer geb. Heine. Heyer married Alice born on April 6, 1911. Haas, daughter of a Prussian officer. The daughter Charlotte was born in 1912; the sons Walther and Wolfgang were born in 1917 and 1918.

Honors

According to the Foreign Office, Political Archive

Books

  • England's turning away from the world economy . Stuttgart 1939
  • British administration . Jena 1944

Publications

According to the Foreign Office, Political Archive

  • Britain's post-war economic policy . Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (1924), pp. 257–286
  • The Scottish Economic Area . Zeitschrift für Geoppolitik (1924), no. 12, pp. 757-774
  • On the question of the tax burden on UK industry . Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (1925), pp. 323-345
  • UK Government Spending . Journal for the entire political science 80 (1925/26), pp. 110-138
  • On the history of British industrial tariffs . World Economic Archive (Oct. 1925)
  • British social legislation since the war . Archives for Social Science and Social Policy 54 (1925), no. 1
  • Addressing the housing crisis in the UK . Archives for Social Science and Social Policy 55 (1926), no. 1
  • Great Britain's economic legislation in 1924-25 . World Economic Archives (Jan. 1926)
  • The British protective tariffs in early 1926 . World Economic Archives (April 1926)
  • British Agricultural Policy Problems . Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics, III. Episode 70
  • The UK unemployment insurance . Archives for Social Science and Social Policy 56 (1927), no.3
  • The British Coal Mining Crisis . Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics, III. Episode, vol. 71
  • Settlement in Great Britain . Archives for Social Science and Social Policy 62 (1929), no. 1
  • The new UK Electricity Act . Yearbooks for Economics and Statistics, III. Episode, vol. 71
  • British economic issues . Prussian Yearbooks 207 (1927), pp. 277–291
  • Great Britain's economic legislation in 1925-26 . Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (1927), pp. 256–267
  • British alcohol legislation . Research on the question of alcohol 42 (1934)

literature

  • Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871-1945 , 2nd volume Paderborn 2005

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslist 1960, 55/279.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f CV AA
  3. ↑ Consuls in Bombay ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 6 kB) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.india.diplo.de
  4. ↑ [Hans] Schu North: Friedrich August Heyer . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 26 (1960), p. 288
personal data
SURNAME Heyer, Friedrich August
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heyer, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German consular officer and economic historian from Great Britain
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH Schridlau , West Prussia
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 1959
Place of death Berlin