Hans Ulrich Granow

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Hans Ulrich Granow (* 21st January 1902 in Legnica ; † 9. August 1964 in Stockholm ) was a German diplomat in the era of National Socialism and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

The doctor's son Otto Granow grew up in Frankfurt am Main and attended the Lessing High School there . He studied law at Frankfurt University . He received his doctorate in 1924 , Dr. jur. and passed the second state law examination in 1927. He joined the Foreign Service in 1928 and was posted to the diplomatic missions in Baghdad, New York, Ottawa, Paris and Amsterdam. He worked in Canada from 1937 to 1939 and on March 14, 1938 called on the Canadian State Department to introduce racial laws.

On May 19, 1941, he arrived in Baghdad as Fritz Grobba's rearguard to support him in his efforts to mobilize Iraq against the Allies . After the defeat of the putschists against the British, he was Grobba's representative for a time with the former Iraqi Prime Minister Raschid Ali al-Gailani and the “Grand Mufti of Jerusalem” Mohammed Amin al-Husseini , who had fled to Germany. From October 1941 he was in occupied Greece and took over the political leadership of the 130 or so Arab volunteers who were to form the core of an Iraqi-Arab army in a camp near Sunion . Therefore, he was also deployed in 1944 at the Döllersheim military training area in the rank of Special Leader Z in the 845 German-Arab Battalion. In September 1944, Granow was retired due to the " Fuehrer's Decree on the keeping of internationally bound men from authoritative positions in the state, party and armed forces of May 19, 1943", because he was married to the Dutch Marietje Coert.

Nothing is known about internment after the end of the war. From November 1945 Granow was in the Hessian judicial service and served as a magistrate in Lauterbach until 1950 . In 1946 he was also chairman of a review office for denazification. Nothing is known about his own denazification .

In February 1950 he moved to the Federal Ministry of Finance and was promoted to Ministerialrat . In February 1953 he returned to the Foreign Service, initially as Consul General in Singapore , and since 1957 as Ambassador to the Malay capital Kuala Lumpur . From 1958 to 1961 he was the successor to Gustav Strohm as ambassador to the South African Republic . The head of the Hamburg press office, Erich Lüth , criticized the ambassador in 1961 for his “ingratiation” to the apartheid policy of the South African government, where “restraint would have been appropriate”. In 1963 he was still ambassador to Stockholm .

Of his four children, the eldest son Dietrich (1933-2017) also became a diplomat.

Fonts

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bernd Philipp Schröder: Germany and the Middle East in the Second World War. , Musterschmidt, Göttingen 1975, ISBN 3-7881-1416-9 . P. 118.
  2. ↑ Files on German Foreign Policy (ADAP), Series E (1941–1945), Vol. II, # 193, p. 328ff.
  3. ↑ Files on German Foreign Policy (ADAP), Series E (1941–1945), Vol. II, # 253, p. 435.
  4. ↑ Hans-Ulrich Granow , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 44/1964 of October 19, 1964, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
personal data
SURNAME Granow, Hans Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Liegnitz
DATE OF DEATH August 9, 1964
Place of death Stockholm