Gerhart Weiz

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Gerhart Weiz (born March 13, 1906 in Rastatt ; † 1983 ) was a German diplomat .

Life

After High School Weiz studied law and laid 1931 his promotion to the doctorate in law at the University of Bonn with a thesis on the types of error. A contribution to general criminal law . In 1933 he passed his second state examination . Weiz became a member of the Sturmabteilung (SA) in 1933 and joined the NSDAP in 1937 .

In 1935 he joined the Foreign Service and until 1945 was employed at the diplomatic missions in Bern , Buenos Aires and in the Foreign Office , where he was appointed Legation Councilor in 1941. After the Second World War , he became a lecturer at the Institute for International Law at the University of Bonn in 1946 and worked between 1947 and 1948 at the Nuremberg Trials as an advisor to the defense for international law and as deputy defense attorney for the defendant Karl Eberhardt in the Krupp trial . In 1949 he became director and chief counsel of the Henschel & Sohn company in Kassel for one year .

In 1950 he returned to the government service and was initially an employee in the Federal Chancellery . During this time he was a consultant for Western European countries in the regional department in the Federal Chancellery and a member of the liaison office to the Allied High Commission as well as a delegate in the Central Commission for Navigation on the Rhine .

In 1951, Weiz returned to the Foreign Service and was first representative of the Foreign Office at the London Debt Conference until 1953 and finally lecturer in the Legation Council . Between 1955 and 1960 he was ambassador to Venezuela and then worked as a lecturer in the first class of the Federal Foreign Office. He was then Ambassador to Indonesia from 1963 to July 15, 1964 .

Most recently, Gerhart Weiz was consul general in São Paulo between September 12, 1964 and his early retirement in 1970 .

literature

  • 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. 221 f.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nuernberg Military Tribunal . Volume IX, Page 6
  2. ^ Occupation of German missions abroad (April 18, 1963)
  3. ↑ Hans Booms, Konrad Reiser: The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government. Volume 17: 1964. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58127-0 , p. 289 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ Diplomats. Water head on duty. In: Der Spiegel. No. 48/1969
  5. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius, Wolfgang Hölscher, Daniel Kosthorst: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1964. Volume 2, Oldenbourg, Munich 1995, ISBN 3-486-56065-4 , p. 1628 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Weiz, Gerhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Rastatt
DATE OF DEATH 1983