Georg Korth
Georg Wilhelm Korth (born August 20, 1896 in Cassel , † January 18, 1985 in Munich ) was a German diplomat .
Life
Georg Korth studied economics and joined the Foreign Service of the German Reich in 1926 . He was employed at the German representations in Antwerp and Johannesburg .
On October 1, 1934, Dr. Georg Korth of the NSDAP as No. 2.870.737. In Johannesburg, he worked on the German émigré Helmut Breiding in such a way that he could be arrested by the secret state police . In 1943 Korth became Consul First Class and head of the Consulate General in Donostia-San Sebastián .
Korth was employed by the Bank deutscher Länder until 1952 . He was then taken over into the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1953 Korth was assigned an embassy in San Salvador and an embassy in Panama . In August 1954, was in Managua a branch of the embassy of San Salvador built and Georg Korth was as charge d'affaires to the government of Anastasio Somoza García accredited. On March 1, 1955, Korth was appointed permanent chargé d'affaires and on June 27, 1956, his own embassy was opened in Managua. In 1955 Korth was also accredited as envoy of the German Federal Republic in San José (Costa Rica) .
Ahmed Sékou Touré had declared in 1958 that his people preferred poverty in freedom to wealth in slavery. The German federal government was one of the first governments to establish diplomatic relations with the government of Guinea . Georg Korth's posting to Conakry in July 1959 was coordinated with the French government . As part of the Hallstein Doctrine , one of his instructions was to find out the contents of the protocol of the GDR trade agency in Conakry .
Publications
- The state winery in the Rheingau. Wuerzburg 1923
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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government. Volume 8: 1955.
- ↑ Werner Kilian: The Hallstein Doctrine. Duncker & Humblot, 2001, p. 86 ( digitized version )
- ^ André Lewin , La Guinée et les deux Allemagnes
| predecessor | Office | successor |
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| Eugene Klee |
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Managua / Nicaragua August 1954 to 1956 |
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Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Conakry / Guinea July 1959 to 1961 |
Johann Christian Lankes |
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Korth, Georg |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Korth, Georg Wilhelm (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1896 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cassel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1985 |
| Place of death | Munich |