Georg von Broich-Oppert

Georg von Broich-Oppert (born October 24, 1897 in Charlottenburg , † October 5, 1979 in Königswinter ) was a German diplomat and local politician ( CDU ).

Life

The son of the regional judge Felix Oppert he named himself after his stepfather Franz von Broich . He attended schools in Berlin-Friedenau and Fürstenwalde. He did military service in World War I, after which he was accepted as an officer in the Reichswehr . From October 1920 he studied law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen . He later moved to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , in 1924 he passed the first state examination in law. During his studies he was active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen and the Corps Borussia Bonn (from 1921).

He was drafted into the Foreign Service in 1925 and passed the main diplomatic and consular examination in 1926. In 1927/28 he was attaché and secretary of the legation in Budapest. In 1929 he was assigned as vice consul to the consulate general in Memel and in 1932 as legation secretary of the German embassy in Vienna . In 1934 he became a consultant for Scandinavian issues in Berlin. Broich-Oppert was put into temporary retirement in 1935 because he had non-Aryan ancestors. He had concealed this in a statement in August 1934. An official criminal case was initiated against him by the legal department of the Foreign Office under the direction of Paul Barandon , but discontinued. During the proceedings, the Vienna SA Brigade Leader Rudolf May had argued for Broich-Oppert that he had campaigned for National Socialism , which was forbidden in the corporate state (Austria) . Retired in 1937, from 1939 he worked as a department head at IG Farben in Berlin and Bucharest .

In 1945 he joined the newly founded Christian Democratic Union . From 1946 to 1951 he was a member of the Berlin city council and deputy district mayor of Berlin-Schöneberg . In 1949 he became head of the city chancellery of Greater Berlin and then head of the Berlin Senate Chancellery . He was also district chairman of the CDU in Schöneberg.

Returned to diplomacy in 1952 , he was appointed envoy of the Federal Republic of Germany to Norway (Oslo). In 1956 he became a permanent observer with the rank of Ambassador to the United Nations in New York City . In 1958 he became head of personnel at the Foreign Office in Bonn. Most recently he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Turkey (Ankara) from 1959 to 1962. After his retirement he was still active as a special representative of the Foreign Office for the implementation of the compensation agreements with the Netherlands and Belgium .

Von Broich-Oppert was married to a born von Keszycki.

See also : Election to the City Council of Greater Berlin in 1946 , List of German Ambassadors in Norway and List of German Ambassadors in Turkey # Ambassadors in Turkey

Honors

• Iron Cross 1st and 2nd class
• Honorary Citizen of Dallas
• Large Federal Cross of Merit with Star (1955)
• Saint Olav Order
• Right knight of the Order of St. John

literature

• Werner Breunig, Siegfried Heimann , Andreas Herbst : Biographical Handbook of Berlin City Councilors and Members of Parliament 1946–1963 (=  series of publications by the Berlin State Archives . Volume 14 ). Landesarchiv Berlin , Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-9803303-4-3 , p. 77 (331 pages).
• 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 .
• Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006 . Düsseldorf 2006, p. 118.
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .

Web links

• Georg von Broich-Oppert , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 02/1980 of December 31, 1979, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law (online version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 45 , 682; 9 , 958.
2. ↑ Conze u. a., The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Munich 2010, p. 53 ff.
3. ↑ Great regret (Der Spiegel, 10/1970)
4. ↑ without author: The witness . In: Der Spiegel , issue 44/1958, October 29, 1958, pages 17-20, online , accessed on January 24, 2014.

predecessor	Office	successor
Felix von Eckardt	Head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations 1956–1958	Carl Werner Dankwort