Hans Allfeld

Hans Hugo Allfeld (born August 18, 1881 in Nuremberg ; † unknown, after 1944) was a German diplomat during the National Socialist era .

Life and activity

Hans Hugo Allfeld was the son of the businessman Hans Hugo Allfeld and his wife Maria, née Hähnlein.

Allfeld held commercial positions in Marseille , Liverpool and in North, Central and South America for over 20 years . The NSDAP he joined on 23 November 1931st Since October 1, 1935, he was in the service of the so-called Büro Ribbentrop , a party office set up in 1933 by Joachim von Ribbentrop as a parallel institution to the Foreign Office to advise and inform Adolf Hitler on foreign policy issues. In this he took on the role of speaker for North, Central and South America. In 1936 Allfeld received the post of political chief of the NSDAP.

After Joachim von Ribbentrop was appointed Reich Foreign Minister in the spring of 1938, Allfeld was accepted into the regular foreign service on March 2, 1938 and was appointed Legation Councilor on March 6, 1939 .

He passed the diplomatic-consular exam in April 1939 and took over the consular business in the newly established consulate in Rosario in Argentina on July 11, 1939 . After Argentina's diplomatic relations with the German Reich were broken off in January 1944, he returned to Europe on July 6, 1944 with his stepson Bernhard, born in 1921.

family

Allfeld was married to Auguste Besold on August 16, 1923. The marriage produced a daughter.

literature

• Foreign Office - Historical Service (Ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service, 1871-194 , Vol. 1 (letters A – F), 2000, pp. 22f.
• Helmut Heiber (editor): Files of the party chancellery of the NSDAP: Reconstruction of a lost inventory , Munich 1983, various processes. (recorded here as Hans Hugo Allfeld t )