Hasso von Etzdorf

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Hasso von Etzdorf (left) receiving an award to his niece Marga von Etzdorf in Tokyo in 1931

Hasso von Etzdorf (born March 2, 1900 in Elbing , West Prussia , † July 7, 1989 in Bruck (Upper Bavaria) ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Hasso von Etzdorf in conversation with Abdoulaye E. Touré, Head of the Guinean Information Office and Radio (1960)

Hasso von Etzdorf came from the eastern noble family von Etzdorff . He was the son of the higher Prussian administrative officer Rüdiger von Etzdorf , nephew of Ulrich von Etzdorf and uncle of the aviator Marga von Etzdorf . Hasso von Etzdorf served in the First World War , in 1918 in the rank of lieutenant . He then studied law and economics and a doctorate 1922 in Goettingen to the Dr. iur. Since 1919 he was a member of the DNVP . In 1924 he joined the Stahlhelm, Bund der Frontsoldaten .

In May 1928 he was drafted into the Foreign Office and in July 1931 he was sent to Tokyo as an attaché . He donated the memorial stone “A German to the young knights of Aizu” in Aizu-Wakamatsu . On June 1, 1933, von Etzdorf joined the NSDAP . In October 1934 he became the personal secretary of Konstantin Freiherr von Neurath . From February 1937 he held the same post with Ambassador Ulrich von Hassell in Rome . On January 30, 1938, he joined the SA , where he was last Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel).

In June 1938 von Etzdorf was appointed to the personnel department of the Foreign Office . As Rittmeister of the Reserve, he was the liaison between State Secretary Ernst Freiherr von Weizsäcker and the Chief of the Army General Staff, Franz Halder, from September 1939 . Together with the department head in the Foreign / Defense Office , Helmuth Groscurth , and the head of the ministerial offices in the Foreign Office, Erich Kordt , von Etzdorf wrote the memorandum " The threatening disaster " in October 1939 . It was a request to the military leadership to treason in view of the planned campaign in the west . After the French campaign , von Etzdorf resigned, although he was in close contact with leading opponents of Hitler such as von Hassell and Quartermaster General Eduard Wagner, who had been put up for sale in February 1938 . Von Etzdorf was not actively involved in the preparations for the coup d'état leading to July 20, 1944 . However, he informed his friend and colleague Werner von Schmieden on July 19, 1944, on the verge of the assassination attempt at the "Wolfsschanze" headquarters, on behalf of the Quartermaster General, General Eduard Wagner , that the contingency could be expected within the next 24 hours. After the failed assassination attempt, Werner von Schmieden informed Etzdorf.

In February 1945 von Etzdorf was appointed Consul General in Genoa and was able to help protect the city's port facilities and industrial plants from the destruction ordered by Hitler but refused by General Günther Meinhold . Etzdorf was interned from the end of the war until August 1947. Nothing is known about its denazification . From 1950 von Etzdorf worked in the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1956 to 1958 he was ambassador to Canada. Most recently he was German Ambassador to Great Britain from September 1961 to March 1965, based in London .

Trivia

In 1919 he became a member and in 1965 an honorary member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . The Corps Pomerania zu Greifswald awarded him the Corpsschleife in 1966 . In the same year he gave the keynote lecture at the congress of the Kösener Senioren-Convents-Verband in Würzburg.

Hasso von Etzdorf is an uncle of the aviator Marga von Etzdorf .

Von Etzdorf is also considered to be the inventor of the legendary (fictional) German diplomat Edmund F. Dräcker .

literature

Web links

Commons : Hasso von Etzdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dissertation: The position of the Reich President based on the Constitution of the German Reich of August 11, 1919
  2. ↑ "The Byakkotai and the Boshin Wars" ( Memento from August 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) October 2002
  3. ^ "The resistance against Hitler and the war" ( Memento of October 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), November 18, 2001
  4. ↑ Werner von Schmieden: In the headquarters, on the verge of the attack , July 20, 1944 - records.
  5. ^ German Embassy Ottawa: List of former ambassadors (accessed July 30, 2015).
  6. ↑ Wolfgang von der Groeben: Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen 1844 to 2006 . Düsseldorf 2006, p. 111
  7. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 142 , 655; 120 , 728
  8. ↑ Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2008-0814-502, Tokyo, Marga von Etzdorf, awarding of the medal.
predecessor Office successor
Carl Werner Dankwort Ambassador to Canada
1956–1958 		Herbert Siegfried
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1961–1965 		Herbert Blankenhorn
personal data
SURNAME Etzdorf, Hasso von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Consul General
DATE OF BIRTH March 2, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Elblag
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 1989
Place of death Eichtling , Upper Bavaria