Heinrich Graf von Hardenberg

Heinrich Graf von Hardenberg (born August 5, 1902 in Stremlow , Western Pomerania , † April 16, 1980 in Munich ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Count Hardenberg began to study law at the Georg August University in Göttingen. From Easter 1922 to Michaelmas 1923 he was active in the Corps Saxonia Göttingen , where he distinguished himself as a senior . As an inactive he moved to the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Prussian University of Greifswald . Since 1926 trainee lawyer, he married Alice-Louise du Pasquier in 1928 . After he had passed the second state law examination in 1930, he was a court assessor and assistant judge. Graf von Hardenberg became a member of the NSDAP on April 20, 1933 . In 1936 he joined the Foreign Service. Until 1939 he worked as the legation secretary in Kaunas , then until 1944 at the legation in Bucharest, then at the Foreign Office in Berlin .

After a short time as a senior civil servant in the Federal Ministry of Finance , he returned in 1951 back into the Foreign Service and was first in Belgrade used. In 1953 he was appointed Counselor appointed. From March 1954, he headed the UNESCO section at the Foreign Office in Bonn as a lecturer in the Legation Council, 1st class . From 1959 to 1967 he was ambassador to Costa Rica .

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. Paderborn: Schöningh, 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , p. 197f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 45/713
2. ^ Munzinger
3. ↑ Wolfgang von der Groeben : Directory of the members of the Corps Saxonia zu Göttingen 1844 to 2006 and the Landsmannschaft Saxonia zu Göttingen 1840 to 1844. As of May 31, 2006 . Self-published, Düsseldorf 2006.