Hans Joachim von Bassewitz

Hans Joachim Theodor von Bassewitz , also Hans-Joachim von Bassewitz , (born September 11, 1898 in Schwerin , † March 1, 1979 in Heinersreuth ) was a German attaché , interpreter and orientalist .

Life

He came from the old Mecklenburg noble family Bassewitz and was the son of the chief forest master Hans August von Bassewitz and his wife Luise nee Both. His parents lived in Schwerin at Jungfernring 36. His father died in 1924.

After attending grammar school in Schwerin, he joined the Royal Prussian cadet company in the main cadet institution in Berlin-Lichterfelde in 1911 , where he was appointed ensign in 1914. As such, he took part in the First World War. Afterwards, Hans-Joachim von Bassewitz studied law, economics, history and oriental languages, first from the winter semester 1918/19 at the University of Rostock, and later at the University of Berlin . In 1920 he passed the diploma interpreter exam for Turkish and Persian. He then became secretary and interpreter of the Royal Afghan Embassy in Rome in 1922, and in 1923 he moved to Moscow in this capacity . In 1923 he was appointed attaché . As such, he worked in the German Embassy in Istanbul from 1925 . In August 1925 he held talks with King Ali in Jeddah . In the following year Hans-Joachim von Bassewitz became editor of the "BLA"

In 1962 he completed the manuscript Contributions to the Family History of the Noble and Countess von Bassewitz Family in Bad Godesberg , which remained unprinted.

He was a member of the German Oriental Society .

literature

Herrmann AL Degener : Degeners Who is it? , Berlin 1935, page 65.

Web links

Hans Joachim von Bassewitz: Bass jokes in the Swedish service

Individual evidence

↑ Uwe Pfullmann: Through desert and steppe: Entdeckerlexikon Arabian peninsula. Biographies and Reports , 2001, p. 54.
↑ Hans Joachim v. Bassewitz , in: Contributions to the family history of the noble and count family von Bassewitz , typescript, Bad Godesberg, 1962.

personal data
SURNAME	Bassewitz, Hans Joachim von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bassewitz, Hans-Joachim; Bassewitz, Hans-Joachim Theodor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German attaché, interpreter and orientalist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 11, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schwerin
DATE OF DEATH	March 1, 1979
Place of death	Heinersreuth

[1] Uwe Pfullmann: Through desert and steppe: Entdeckerlexikon Arabian peninsula. Biographies and Reports , 2001, p. 54.

[2] Hans Joachim v. Bassewitz , in: Contributions to the family history of the noble and count family von Bassewitz , typescript, Bad Godesberg, 1962.