Georg von Dehn-Schmidt

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Georg von Dehn-Schmidt (born November 9, 1876 in Guhrau , Lower Silesia ; died July 14, 1937 in Munich ) was a German diplomat in the German Empire , in the Weimar Republic, and during the Nazi era .

Life

As the son of a district veterinarian, Schmidt attended the Comenius high school in Lissa near Posen . From 1898 he studied law at the University of Jena and the Friedrichs University of Halle . In 1899 he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Halle . When he was inactive , he moved to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin . He took his legal traineeship in 1901 at the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau . He moved in the same year as the one-year volunteer and a doctorate in Leipzig for Dr. iur. In 1903/04 he studied Russian at the Seminar for Oriental Languages in Berlin.

In January 1907 he passed the assessor examination . Born by Caroline Knorr Adopted by von Dehn in February 1907 , he changed his name to von Dehn-Schmidt in 1921 . In 1908 he was drafted into the Foreign Service of the German Reich. His first assignments abroad were in Amsterdam and London . When the First World War broke out , he was drafted as a lieutenant and in 1915 he was seconded to the governor general Moritz von Bissing in the occupied general government of Belgium in Brussels . In 1917 he returned to the Foreign Service in Berlin. Here he was employed in Department IV (news).

His first stops after the end of the war were London and Liverpool . From June 1923, von Dehn-Schmidt headed the newly established Consulate General in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland . When he was converted to an embassy , he became an envoy in 1930 . Von Dehn-Schmidt applied for membership in the NSDAP in 1934 . This was prevented by the Dublin branch of the NSDAP / AO , since June 1934 under the leadership of Adolf Mahr . He repeated his application for membership in February 1937. In August 1934 he moved to Bucharest as envoy . Von Dehn-Schmidt was retired in February 1935 after Mahr had launched a press photo from Dehn in the striker , showing him kissing the ring of the Apostolic Nuncio when he said goodbye in Dublin . The process was also discussed in an unofficial conversation between the then Irish Ambassador in Berlin Charles Bewley and the Ministerial Director Hans-Heinrich Dieckhoff .

Fonts

  • Georg Schmidt: Will and explanation: a contribution to the doctrine of legal transactions: §§ 116 sentence 2, 117 paragraph 1 and 118 BGB in historical and comparative representation . Halle aS: Kaemmerer, 1902, Diss. Leipzig 1901

literature

  • 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 , p. 407f.
  • Christopher Sterzenbach: German-Irish relations during the Weimar Republic, 1918 - 1933: politics, economy, culture. LIT, Münster 2009, ISBN 978-3-8258-1470-0 .
  • Horst Dickel: German Foreign Policy and the Irish Question from 1932 to 1944 , Steiner, Wiesbaden 1983, ISBN 3-515-03896-5 . Frankfurt (Main), Univ., Diss., 1980
  • John P. Duggan: Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich , Gill and Macmillan, Dublin 1985, ISBN 0-7171-1384-1
  • "Extract from a confidential report from Charles Bewley to Joseph P. Walshe" (Dublin) (43/33) published in "Documents on irish foreign policy" [1]

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 58 , 1073
  2. ^ Hürter, Kröger, Messerschmidt, Scheidemann, Biographical Manual of the Foreign Office. 1871-1945. Volume 1, Schöningh Verlag Paderborn / Vienna 2000
  3. ↑ Horst Dickel: German Foreign Policy and the Irish Question from 1932 to 1944 , p. 76 fn. 186; also p. 38
  4. ↑ Horst Dickel: German Foreign Policy and the Irish Question from 1932 to 1944 , p. 38 fn. 143
  5. ^ John P. Duggan: Neutral Ireland and the Third Reich , p. 28
  6. ^ Extract from a confidential report from Charles Bewley to Joseph P. Walshe
personal data
SURNAME Dehn-Schmidt, Georg von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 9, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Guhrau , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1937
Place of death Munich