Georg Gyssling

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Georg Gyssling (born June 16, 1893 in Walzen , Upper Silesia , † January 8, 1965 in Benidorm , Spain ) was a German diplomat and from 1927 to 1941 consul in the USA .

Life

Georg Gyssling studied since 1913 Law , interrupted by military service during the First World War , and laid in 1917 the state examination from. Afterwards he was employed in the German military administration in occupied Belgium. In August 1919 he received his doctorate . From December 1919 he was employed in the Foreign Service and completed training stations in Poznan , Krakow and Amsterdam . Since May 1927 he was in the United States at the Consulate General New York , the Consulate Atlanta and Consulate General San Francisco , where he led the Consulate in Los Angeles from 1933 .

Gyssling strengthened the German Olympic squad as a bobsleigh driver in 1932 and was seventh and last in the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid in the four-man bobsleigh competition together with the "emergency pilots" Walther von Mumm , Hasso von Bismarck and Gerhard von Hessert , after the second run the team was seventh and last even in sixth place. Like the other three, Gyssling had jumped in at the last minute after numerous athletes from the original crews were in the hospital after Werner Zahn and Fritz Grau fell seriously .

Gyssling had already joined the NSDAP in 1931 and was organized in the NSDAP / AO . After the seizure of power, he pursued the goals of National Socialist policy also against the German refugees on the American west coast, using and promoting the sympathies of the American film moguls for National Socialist Germany , also for economic reasons . He put the film actors of the film adaptation of the Remarque novel The Way Back The Road Back under pressure in 1936. He tried to prevent the film The Great Dictator . After the annexation of Austria , he publicly declared that the Jews in Austria would not have to expect any other interference with their property than the Jews of the German Reich before. He promoted the National Socialist activities of the German-Americans around Walterkap and his American-German Bund by illegally importing documents and distributing funds through the consulate.

Even before Germany and Italy declared war on the United States on December 11, 1941, the German consular authorities in the United States were closed in June and Gyssling returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin . He was employed as an agent for the distributor Friedrich Schwend in the sale of banknotes in Aktion Bernhard , in which counterfeit pound notes were produced in Germany for the purpose of obtaining foreign currency .

Since November 1944 he was with the SS-Sonderkommando III. (Germanic) SS Panzer Corps in Labers / Meran and was a messenger during the armistice negotiations between the General of the Waffen-SS Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles in Operation Sunrise , as he was able to enter Switzerland with the diplomatic passport from German-occupied Italy .

Gyssling was a witness in the Wilhelmstrasse trial in 1948 . Nothing is known about its denazification . He then worked as a lawyer in Bad Reichenhall and later lived in Tunisia and then in Spain .

Fonts

  • Georg Gyßling: The German state's protection against foreign countries , o. O., 1921

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , p. 142.
  • 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 , p. 488

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Michael Althen : Hitler's canvas henchmen, in: Focus, 16/1994
  2. ↑ Shraga Elam : The van Harten Affair ,
personal data
SURNAME Gyssling, Georg
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gyßling, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 16, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Rolling (Upper Silesia)
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1965
Place of death Benidorm