Hans Freytag (diplomat)
Hans Freytag (born June 10, 1869 in Gotha , † April 2, 1954 in Darmstadt ) was a German diplomat in the German Empire and in the Weimar Republic up to the time of National Socialism .
Life
Hans Freytag was born as the son of the landscape and portrait painter Richard Freytag and Anna, b. Born better. He attended the Ernestinum grammar school in Gotha. From 1889 he studied law in Jena , Berlin and Leipzig and was in the Saxon-Coburg-Gotha judiciary from 1893 .
In 1903 Freytag was appointed to the Foreign Service and was deployed in Brazil , France and Bulgaria until the outbreak of the First World War ; during the war he was consul in Athens and Belgrade . In the period between October 1918 and the proclamation of the Hungarian Soviet Republic , he headed the Consulate General in Budapest . From 1921 to 1926 Freytag was Chargé d'affaires and envoy in Bucharest . In Berlin he then headed the cultural department in the Foreign Office until 1932. He was ambassador to Lisbon from January 14, 1933 to September 27, 1934 before retiring.
Freytag published various newspaper and magazine articles on German cultural policy abroad and was awarded an honorary doctorate in July 1930.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ On German cultural policy abroad , Deutsche Rundschau , 1929, pp. 97-109
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Freytag, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 10, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Gotha |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 2, 1954 |
| Place of death | Darmstadt |