Hans Hermann Völckers

Hans Hermann Völckers (born May 20, 1886 in Hamburg ; † January 4, 1977 there ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Völckers studied law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg . In 1907 he was reciprocated like Paul Marx in the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg . When Inactive he moved to the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen , where it 1912 Dr. iur. received his doctorate. He entered the diplomatic service in 1920 and was always abroad until 1945. Under Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann , he spent four years in Geneva as the German permanent representative and consul general to the League of Nations . He was convened in the Foreign Office in 1932 and appointed personal advisor to the newly appointed Foreign Minister Konstantin von Neurath . In 1933 he was sent to Madrid as counselor at his own request . From 1937 to 1939 he was envoy to Havana . With his inclination to zoology , he put together a collection of conchylia there . From mid-1939 back in the Foreign Office, he was personal advisor with the title of head of cabinet at v. Neurath, who in the meantime had been appointed Reich Protector in the Reich Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia . In 1940 Völckers was appointed Ministerialdirigent v. Neurath's office manager in the Palais Czernin . After the war he was a witness in the Nuremberg trials . In retirement he devoted himself to numismatics . After the attack on Poland began , Völckers had relocated all of his art possessions and his library to a property he had acquired in Thuringia. At the end of the war, the house was repeatedly confiscated and partly looted. On the basis of a law of the Thuringian state administration, his library came to the Jena University Library in the early 1950s .

Works

• Carolingian coin finds of the early period . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 1965.

See also

• List of German ambassadors in Spain # Ambassador of the German Reich
• List of German ambassadors in Cuba

Individual evidence

1. ↑ life data (kunst-und-kultur.de)
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 31/256
3. ↑ Dissertation: The liability of the automobile owner .
4. ↑ ^{a b} Dietrich von Knorre: Dr. Hans Hermann Völckers and his collection of Cuban molluscs (dmg.mollusca.de)
5. ↑ Völckers, Hans Hermann (CERL)
6. ↑ Nuremberg Trial (June 26, 1946)

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm Erythropel	Envoy of the German Reich in Spain 1936–1937	Stephan Tauchnitz
Johannes von Welczeck ( Eberhard von Stohrer )	Envoy of the German Reich in Cuba 1939–1941	Wilhelm Faupel