Friedrich Leopold Freiherr von Fürstenberg

Friedrich Leopold Hubertus Maria Freiherr von Fürstenberg (born May 5, 1902 on the Kopanina manor , Miedar, Upper Silesia ; † October 31, 1969 in Seelscheid ) was a German diplomat .

Life

After graduating from high school , Freiherr von Fürstenberg studied law and political science and received his doctorate in 1925 . He then worked as a businessman in Hamburg and New York and also traveled to the Far East until 1938 . In 1938 he became an employee of the Reich Commissioner for Pricing and worked there until the end of the Second World War in 1945. After the end of the war he worked for the Central Economic Office in Minden and then for the Labor Administration of the United Economic Area .

In 1950 he joined the Foreign Service and was first consul first class and head of the economic department of the Consulate General in Chicago from February 1951 to October 1955 .

In October 1956 Freiherr von Fürstenberg was first ambassador and then between 1956 and 1963 ambassador to the Philippines .

literature

• Friedrich Freiherr von Fürstenberg , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 50/1955 of December 5, 1955, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815–1963: Foreign heads of mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. Munich: Saur 2001. ISBN 3-598-11431-1 . P. 123.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. Munich: Saur 2001. p. 123.