Hans Schröder (diplomat)
Hans Schroeder , also Hans Schroeder (* 20th October 1899 in Brüel , † 8. January 1965 in Konstanz ) was a German diplomat in the Nazi era .
Life
After completing secondary school and training as a businessman , Schröder passed the inspector's examination in 1923 and began his service in the Foreign Office in April 1925 .
From December 1928 he acted as consulate secretary in Cairo , where he made the acquaintance of the Hess family. Through Rudolf Hess he came into contact with the NSDAP , which he joined on March 1, 1933. Soon he received the rank of local group leader in Alexandria and in 1934 was appointed national group leader Egypt of the NSDAP foreign organization.
In particular, Rudolf Hess, who was now Hitler's deputy , owed Schröder a steep career in Berlin . In January 1937 he was promoted to legation counsel in the personnel department and was now responsible for the middle service. In August 1938, Schröder was promoted to lecturing councilor and was now responsible as a departmental staff member for the higher officials.
In April 1939 Schröder was envoy 1st class and deputy head of the personnel and administration department and from February 1941 head of that department .
Together with his deputy, Helmut Bergmann , who was sentenced to death and executed for war crimes in Moscow in 1946 , Schröder stood up for the “old civil servants” of “ Wilhelmstrasse ” and even courageously disregarded Joachim von Ribbentrop's orders .
In March 1943, Schröder also approved the timely removal of the files from the Political Archives of the Foreign Office.
After the end of the war, Schröder was interned and was questioned by Robert Kempner as part of the investigation into the Nuremberg trials . Schröder then worked in business and became head of personnel at the BND in the 1950s .
literature
- Hans-Jürgen Döscher : The Foreign Office in the Third Reich. Diplomacy in the shadow of the “final solution” . Siedler, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88680-256-6 , p. 192 f. (Short biography), 195, 205, 213, 262.
- Hermann Weiß (Ed.): Biographical Lexicon for the Third Reich . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1998, ISBN 3-10-091052-4 .
- Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes and Moshe Zimmermann : The Office and the Past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 3-896-67430-7 , ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2
- Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ See also on the following Hans-Jürgen Döscher : The Foreign Office in the Third Reich. Diplomacy in the Shadow of the “Final Solution” , Berlin 1987, p. 193 f.
- ↑ Andreas Weigelt, Klaus-Dieter Müller, Thomas Schaarschmidt, Mike Schmeitzner (eds.): Death sentences of Soviet military tribunals against Germans (1944-1947). A historical-biographical study. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2015, ISBN 978-3-525-36968-5 , p. 44.
- ^ Christopher R. Browning: The final solution and the German Foreign Office. A study of referat D III of Department Germany 1940–43. Holmes & Meier, New York NY et al. 1978 ISBN 0-8419-0403-0 . P. 188
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schröder, Hans |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schroeder, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat in the time of National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 20, 1899 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bruel |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 8, 1965 |
| Place of death | Constancy |