Hans-Ulrich von Schweinitz
Hans-Ulrich von Schweinitz (born May 9, 1908 in Sitzmannsdorf, Ohlau district ; died January 24, 1972 in Remagen ) was a German diplomat.
Life
Hans-Ulrich von Schweinitz 'father Hans von Schweinitz was a Prussian officer, mountain ridge and district councilor in Lower Silesia . His mother was Margarethe von Prittwitz and Gaffron. Appropriately, he married Renata von Zastrow in 1939; they had a daughter and son Mark-Ulrich von Schweinitz .
Von Schweinitz attended high school in Liegnitz and from 1927 studied law in Geneva , Dijon and Vienna and received his doctorate in 1930 in Breslau . He went to Buenos Aires as an exchange student in 1931/32 . After the handover of power to the National Socialists , he became a member of the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . In May 1934 he was accepted into the Foreign Service. He began his work abroad in 1935 in Amsterdam, then in 1936 for a year in Kabul . After the defeat of Czechoslovakia , he was deployed in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia in 1939/1940 . From 1941 he was consul in Alexandrette in neutral Turkey , where he was interned when Turkey entered the war in September 1944. In 1945/46 he was interned in occupied Germany.
Von Schweinitz worked for the German press service and in business from 1947 and was employed in the Federal Ministry of Economics from 1950 , which placed him in 1953 as director of the ECSC . In 1955 he was reassigned to the Foreign Service. Von Schweinitz became German ambassador to Thailand in 1962 and was ambassador to Kenya from 1967 to 1970 .
Fonts
- The protection of national minorities as a task of the League of Nations based on the peace treaties . Ohlau, 1930 Breslau, R.- u. state science Diss.
literature
- Andrea Wiegeshoff: "We all have to relearn something". On the internationalization of the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945/51 - 1969) . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1257-9 , short biography p. 436f.
- Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 4: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: S Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans-Ulrich von Schweinitz in the catalog of the German National Library
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Bidder |
German ambassador in Bangkok 1962 to 1967 |
Hans-Ulrich Scheske |
| Otto Soltmann |
German ambassador in Nairobi from 1967 to 1970 |
Jürgen Ruhfus |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schweinitz, Hans-Ulrich von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Sitzmannsdorf, district of Ohlau |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 1972 |
| Place of death | Remagen |