Harald von Rautenfeld
Harald Berens von Rautenfeld (born September 23, 1893 in Libau , Kurland , † June 3, 1975 in Loccum ) was a Baltic German activist, journalist and diplomat .
Live and act
In his youth he attended high school in Libau. He then studied agriculture at the Polytechnic in Libau from 1911 to 1916. From 1917 to 1918 he worked at the Swedish Consulate General in Moscow . After the end of the First World War , Harald von Rautenfeld, who was considered a determined and energetic personality, went to Stockholm as a liaison officer in the Baltic State Army , where he stayed until 1920. He then moved to the German Reich , where he was naturalized on March 24, 1926. At this time Harald von Rautenfeld began to become more involved in the Baltic German movement. The main focus of his work was initially in the field of journalism, in which he distinguished himself as editor of the Baltic papers . At the same time he officiated as General Manager of the Baltic Red Cross in Berlin. From 1923 to 1930 he was Secretary General and then from 1930 to 1934 Head of Division at the Baltic Working Group eV in Berlin, of which he was elected President in 1934. On October 7, 1940, Harald von Rautenfeld joined the Foreign Office as a research assistant , where he worked in the information department until the end of the Second World War. On January 19, 1943, he was also appointed representative of the Foreign Office to the Reich Commissioner for the East in Riga , where he remained until August 6, 1944. Since 1947 Harald von Rautenfeld worked at the research center of the Evangelical Academy Hermannsburg . He was also chairman of the “Working Group on Church Reform” for two years. He was a co-founder of the Baltic Brotherhood and the Brotherly Circle . Part of the estate is in the regional church archive in Hanover.
Origin and family
Harald came from the German-Baltic noble family Berens von Rautenfeld . His father was the Russian citizen in the Baltic States born doctor Peter Berens von Rautenfeld (* 1858 in Buschhof, † 1920 in Libau ), who was married to Mathilde, a born Kopp. On October 28, 1936, Harald von Rautenfeld married Gertraud Schuller (* 1914). The marriage resulted in the son Dieter Harald (* February 28, 1938) and the daughter Ellen Dorothea (* June 27, 1941).
literature
- Maria Keipert / Peter Grupp / Gerhard Keiper (eds.): Biographical Handbook of the Foreign Service , Vol. 3, 2000.
Web links
- Harald von Rautenfeld. In: Heinrich von Baer, My experience of brotherhood: records from 1979 , editor Brüderlicher Kreis, Verlag BoD - Books on Demand, 2013, ISBN 3848237717 , page 70 ff.
- Genealogical manual of the Baltic knighthoods, Görlitz 1929, page 892
- Baltic Historical Commission (ed.): Entry on Harald von Rautenfeld. In: BBLD - Baltic Biographical Lexicon digital
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rautenfeld, Harald von |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rautenfeld, Harald Nikolai Viktor Berens from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Baltic German journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Libau , Courland |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd June 1975 |
| Place of death | Loccum |