Harald Leithe-Jasper
Harald Leithe-Jasper (* 18th May 1904 in Pula , † 16th September 1977 in Milan ) was a German diplomat in the Nazi era .
Life
Harald Leithe-Jasper was the son of the imperial and royal liner lieutenant and later printing employee Friedrich Jasper. Until 1934, Harald Leithe-Jasper was on the management board of the Wilhelm Braumüller university publishing house and was a member of the NSDAP (membership number 896.181). In 1934 he became a member of Otto Wächter 's National Socialist leadership in Austria. After participating in the unsuccessful July coup in 1934, he fled Austria, joined the foreign service of the German Reich in 1936 and in 1937 became editor of the DNB / Ribbentrop office . Leithe-Jasper was temporarily accredited to the Court of St James’s . In 1939 he was promoted to legation secretary and employed on Wilhelmstrasse . In 1942 he was appointed special representative in press matters at the embassy of the German Reich in Rome as a delegation councilor .
Leithe-Jasper was a member of the SS (membership number 293.227) with the rank of Sturmbannführer . On April 3 and 4, 1944, a “working conference of the Jewish officers ” of 12 diplomatic representations of the Foreign Office in Europe took place in Krummhübel , initiated by the “Information Center for Anti-Jewish Foreign Action”. Here the participants agreed to intensify the propaganda in order to advance the Shoah . Franz Alfred Six demanded the “physical elimination of the Eastern Jews ”, as the official Jewish advisor, Eberhard von Thadden , recorded. Leithe-Jasper took part in this meeting in his capacity as a Jewish advisor.
After the war he was director of the Swiss steel trading company Friedrich Frauchiger-Nigst AG.
literature
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Ed. Foreign Office , Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L - R. Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh , Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6
- Manfred Steinkühler : "Anti-Jewish foreign campaign". The conference of the advisors to Jews in April 1944 . In: Karsten Linne & Thomas Wohlleben (eds.): Patient history. For Karl Heinz Roth . 2001-Verlag , Frankfurt 1993, ISBN 3-86150-015-9 , p. 256-279 .
- Sebastian Weitkamp: Brown diplomats. Horst Wagner and Eberhard von Thadden as functionaries of the "Final Solution". Dietz, Bonn 2008, ISBN 978-3-8012-4178-0 .
Remarks
- ^ A euphemism , Jews from western and central Europe were also affected
- ↑ For more information see Karpacz # Venue of a conference of Nazi functionaries in April 1944 and literature: Linne & Wohlleben
Individual evidence
- ↑ Edmund Glaise von Horstenau, A General in the Twilight: The Memories of Edmund Glaise von Horstenau
- ↑ Peter Longerich, Propagandisten im Krieg p. 159, p. 162.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leithe-Jasper, Harald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian politician (NSDAP) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 18, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Pula |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 16, 1977 |
| Place of death | Milan |