Hans Pilger

Hans Carl Adolph Pilger (born January 21, 1888 in Cologne , † November 8, 1953 in Munich ) was a German diplomat .

biography

Pilgrims studied at the Hessian Ludwigs University of Law and was 1906 in the Corps Hassia Giessen active. After the first state examination in law , he became a trainee lawyer in the judicial service of the Kingdom of Prussia in 1909 . During the First World War he did his military service from 1914 to 1919 . After the end of the war he continued his legal preparatory service and became assessor in 1919 . As such, he entered the diplomatic service in 1919 . First he was Vice Consul at the Consulate General in Barcelona from 1920 to 1924 and then for some time Vice Consul in Department II of the Foreign Office . Between 1925 and 1934 he was a delegation counselor at the legation in Egypt . In 1934 he returned to Berlin , became head of the Orient Department in the Reich Foreign Ministry and in 1935 was promoted to lecturer in the Legation Council . On June 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . He then succeeded Kurt Ziemke from August 28, 1937 until the end of the Second World War in 1945 as Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in Afghanistan . In this capacity he received the chairman of the Indian National Congress Subhash Chandra Bose in February 1941 . On his return journey from Afghanistan via the Soviet Union , he was interned in Moscow in 1945 and imprisoned there until mid-1946. He then lived in Starnberg .

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 97 , 1040.
2. ↑ Jan Kuhlmann: Subhas Chandra Bose and the India policy of the Axis powers. Verlag Hans Schiler, 2003, ISBN 3-89930-064-5 , p. 125 ( digitized version ).
3. ^ Government: End of the cover-up. In: Der Spiegel . No. 15/2005.
4. ↑ Chronicle. In: The time . November 19, 1953.