George S. Messersmith

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Strausser Messersmith, 1938

George Strausser Messersmith (born October 3, 1883 in Fleetwood , † January 29, 1960 in Dallas ) was an ambassador of the United States .

Life

George S. Messersmith's parents were Sarah SC Strausser and Charles A. Messersmith.

Messersmith was a teacher at a Delaware public school and joined the foreign service in 1914. Messersmith was consul on Curaçao from 1916 to 1917, and in Antwerp in 1919 . In 1926 he was promoted to consul general and accredited in Buenos Aires in 1929 . Messersmith was consul general in Berlin from 1929 to 1933 and in Vienna from 1934 to 1936 . Here he warned the American government about the propaganda opportunities offered by the 1936 Olympic Games and recommended an Olympic boycott. He was appointed Assistant Secretary of State in 1936 . In this post he contributed significantly to a departure from the isolationist tendency in US foreign policy. In 1937 Adam von Trott zu Solz came into contact with William Joseph Donovan through Messersmith .

On the initiative of Messersmith, the President's Advisory Committee on Political Refugees (PACPR) was established at the Évian conference .

After the attack on Pearl Harbor , Messersmith wrote:

"Japan could have done us no better service"

- George Strausser Messersmith

predecessor Office successor
George Howard Earle United States Ambassador to Austria
May 23, 1934 to July 11, 1937 		Grenville T. Emmet
J. Butler Wright United States Ambassador to Cuba
March 8, 1940 to February 8, 1942 		Spruille Braden
Josephus Daniels United States Ambassador to Mexico
February 24, 1942 to May 15, 1946 		Walter C. Thurston
Spruille Braden United States Ambassador to Argentina
May 23, 1946 to June 12, 1947 		James Bruce

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Arnd Krüger : The Olympic Games 1936 and the world opinion. Its importance in foreign policy, with particular reference to the USA. (⇐ Sports science work, Vol. 7) Berlin: Bartels & Wernitz 1972; ders .: United States of America: The Crucial Battle, in: ARND KRÜGER & WILLIAM MURRAY (HRSG.): The Nazi Olympics. Sport, Politics and Appeasement in the 1930s. Champaign, IL: Univ. of Illinois Press 2003, 44-69.
  2. ^ Uwe Lübken, Threatening Proximity: The USA and the National Socialist Challenge in Latin America 1937-1945
  3. ↑ Fritz Kieffer, Persecution of Jews in Germany - an internal affair ?: international reactions to the refugee problem 1933-1939
  4. ↑ Jesse H. Stiller, George S. Messersmith, diplomat of democracy , 1987, 346 p. 173
personal data
SURNAME Messersmith, George S.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Messersmith, George Strausser (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American Ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Fleetwood , Pennsylvania
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 1960
Place of death Dallas , Texas