Hans Huyn (diplomat)

Hans Huyn (originally Johannes Franz Carl Victor Clemens Max Maria Graf von Huyn; born July 3, 1894 in Krakow , Austria-Hungary , † August 20, 1941 in São Paulo , Brazil ) was an Austro-German diplomat.

Life and activity

Huyn was a son of Carl Georg Otto Maria Graf von Huyn (1857–1938), a general in the Austro-Hungarian Army and his wife Ignatia, nee. Countess von Lützow (1871–1956). He first embarked on a military career: from 1908 to 1912 he attended the naval officer school in Fiume (Rijeka) . He then belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Navy until 1917, u. a. on the flagship of the Austro-Hungarian fleet Viribus Unitis. From the end of 1917 he was then employed in the Ministry of the Navy in Vienna.

After the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy, Huyn worked in the private sector. In 1921 he joined the Austrian diplomatic service. Until 1924 he was an attaché at the Austrian representation in Warsaw. From 1924 to 1927 he acted as the Warsaw representative of the semi-official German news agency Wolffsche Telegraphenbüro .

In 1927 Huyn switched to the German diplomatic service: until 1934 he held the post of press attaché at the German embassy in Warsaw. In summer 1934 he resigned from the diplomatic service after publicly distancing himself from National Socialism. Instead, he returned to Vienna, where he rejoined the Austrian diplomatic service. At the end of 1934 he became a press attaché at the Austrian embassy in London.

After Austria was annexed to the German Empire in 1938, Huyn stayed in London for the time being. In 1939 he began to work in the Austria Office, one of the most important representatives of Austrian emigration in London, where he was one of the main legitimist representatives.

After the beginning of World War II, Huyn worked on German-language broadcasts on the BBC. He emigrated to Brazil around 1940.

family

Huyn was married to Elisabeth Charlotte ("Liselotte") from Philipp (* 1910) since 1928. This marriage ended in divorce in 1933. In 1936 he married Irmgard (1908–1952) for the second time in Munich. The son Hans Graf Huyn (* 1930), who was a diplomat, ministerial official and member of the Bundestag (at times foreign policy advisor to the CDU / CSU parliamentary group), emerged from the first marriage .

Fonts

• Tragedy of Errors. The Chronicle of a European , London 1939. (published as Hans Count Huyn)

literature

• Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical manual of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Vol. 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur 1980, p. 319.