Hans Reichmann (ambassador)

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Hans Reichmann (born December 27, 1910 in Vienna ; † 1993 ibid) was a French officer and Austrian diplomat .

Life

In 1939 Hans Reichmann married Valerie Wittmann-Jean in Paris , their children were Elisabeth, Franz and Rudolf.

He studied law at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in law in 1933 . In 1934 he obtained a diploma as a businessman and by 1935 he completed training in court. From 1936 to 1938 he worked as a lawyer in his father's company.

His Austrian citizenship was revoked as a result of the Anschluss of Austria in 1938, after nine months of Légion étrangère he acquired French citizenship in 1940. In 1945 he was given back Austrian citizenship.

After the annexation of Austria, he emigrated to France. On September 3, 1939, he joined the French armed forces . In 1940 he was transferred to Sidi bel Abbès , where he worked for six months as an instructor of the Légion étrangère . At the end of 1940 he was transferred to a camouflaged unit in Algiers in French North Africa during World War II . In December 1942, after Operation Torch , he was deputy company commander in the staff of the French Africa Corps. In 1943 he was a Sous-lieutenant (platoon leader) on the Tunisian front when he was seriously wounded in the attack on Bizerte in April 1943 . From autumn 1943 he was depot commander of the 3rd Algerian Infantry Division. From June 3, 1943, after the German troops surrendered in North Africa in May 1943, he was an advisor on Central European issues to the French Committee for National Liberation in Algiers. He was also involved in the separation of the Austrian from the German prisoners of war.In the spring of 1944, he provided an Austrian battalion of prisoners of war and deserters, mainly from Penal Division 999 , which was not used for military purposes, but for border protection service after May 8, 1945 Tyrol was deployed on. From autumn to December 1944 after Operation Neptune he was a lieutenant in the army command. From November 1945 to April 1946 he was on the close staff of the French High Commissioner in Austria, Marie Émile Antoine Béthouart .

In April 1946 he was discharged from the French army as a lieutenant colonel, joined the Austrian People's Party and looked after its foreign guests at the ÖVP federal party congress in 1947 and 1949.

He was one of the founders of the Union of Austrians in the Allied Armies.

From 1947 to 1954 he was employed in the Austrian Ministry of the Interior in Vienna. His duties included clearing the western internment camps. The reorganization of the Vienna Federal Police Directorate. The establishment of a new state police - cooperation with western occupying powers. He was the superior of the detective officers Anton Marek (witness in the July coup ) and Franz Kiridus , who were instructed by State Secretary Ferdinand Graf (ÖVP) as group 5 to take measures against the head of the Vienna Security Police, Heinrich Dürmayer , but were arrested by the SMERSch in Moscow Sentenced to death, pardoned and only returned to Austria after the State Treaty .

In January 1955 he joined the foreign service of the Republic of Austria and was appointed Legation Councilor. From 1956 to 1958 he was deputy head of the legal aid department.

From 1958 to 1963 he was permanent representative of the Austrian Foreign Minister at the Council of Europe . There he started a diplomatic initiative on the South Tyrol question on June 6, 1961. From 1963 to 1969 he headed the legal aid department and lectured at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna .

From July 19, 1969 to December 16, 1974 he was ambassador to the Holy See on what was then Paul VI. sat.

From 1969 until his retirement on December 31, 1975, he was again employed in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he was appointed Deputy Secretary General in November 1974. He then lived in Vienna.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Stefan Karner : War. Consequences. Research: Political, Economic and Social Transformation in the 20th Century. Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2018, p. 127.
    Hans Reichmann: From Foreign Legionnaire to Ambassador to the Holy See. Memories 1939–1975. (= Materials on contemporary history. Volume 3.) Geyer Edition, Vienna / Salzburg 1982, p. 115.
  2. ↑ Annuario Cattolico d'Italia, 1969. p. 32.
  3. ↑ Order of the Yugoslav Flag [1]
  4. ^ Edited by Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss, Dieter Marc Schneider, Louise Forsyth, Politics, Economy, Public Life., P. 592
  5. ↑ Honoring Austrian freedom fighters. In:  The new reminder call. Journal for Freedom, Law and Democracy , issue 11/1977, p. 2 (online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / dnm.

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predecessor Office successor
Eduard Ludwig Permanent representative of Austria to the Council of Europe
1958–1963 		Willfried Gredler
Johannes Schwarzenberg Austrian Ambassador to the Holy See
1969–1974 		Gordian Gudenus
personal data
SURNAME Reichmann, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH 1993
Place of death Vienna