Hans Ludwig Moraht

Hans Ludwig Moraht (born October 4, 1879 in Heiligenhafen ; † November 18, 1945 in Inta penal camp , Komi Soviet republic ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Born as the son of the mayor of Heiligenhafen, Morath studied law in Jena and Marburg from 1897 to 1900 after attending secondary school in Sonderburg and high school in Wandsbek . During his studies in Jena in 1897 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the Burgkeller . He was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD . From 1900 to 1905 he was a trainee lawyer in Hamburg and then became an assessor . In 1900 he served as a one-year volunteer and in 1905 became a reserve lieutenant . From 1905 he worked in the Foreign Office and became Vice Consul in London in 1908 and Legation Councilor in 1910 . In 1913 he was responsible for the establishment of the consulate in Marrakech and managed it until he was taken into French civil captivity in Algeria in 1914 , from which he was released in 1915.

In 1915 he became head of the consulate in Gothenburg . He was appointed Legation Councilor and was administrator of the Consulate in Maastricht and then Counselor of the Embassy in The Hague . In 1918 he received the German Emperor Wilhelm II when he crossed the border into the Netherlands, where he spent his exile . In 1919 Morath became Consul General in Stockholm , but in the same year he went to the Foreign Office, where he worked as Consul General for Disposition and acting head of the cultural department. In 1922 he became head of the disarmament department and in 1923 he was promoted to lecturing councilor . In 1924 he became envoy of the Reich government in dealings with the Inter-Allied Military Control Commission . Then he took over the provisional management of the embassy in Reval until 1925 . From 1926 to 1933 he was envoy, 2nd class in Kovno , Lithuania , and then until 1938 in Montevideo he was additionally authorized minister of the German Empire. In 1938 he went to the trade policy department and was a lecturer in the Legation Council in the Foreign Office. During World War II he was special envoy to the Balkans and resigned from service in November 1944.

He was a member of the Archaeological Institute and the German Society for International Law. He published several volumes of poetry . In 1927 he gave the speech at the Wartburg Festival in Eisenach .

He was probably arrested by Soviet troops in Berlin in June 1945 and taken to the Sachsenhausen special camp . He was sentenced to 10 years of forced labor and died in Inta prison. In 2001 he was rehabilitated.

Honors

• In the First World War he received the Iron Cross, 2nd class.

Publications

• Gen Ithaca. Aachen 1916
• Four brothers and death. Berlin 1925
• In the ring of hours. Leipzig 1926

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , pp. 132-133.

Web links

• Hans Ludwig Moraht in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Edition Files. Weimar Republic