Heinrich Northe

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Heinrich Northe (* 17th July 1908 in Halberstadt , † 29. May 1985 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat in the era of National Socialism and the Federal Republic.

Life

Diplomat until 1945 and after the war

The son of a merchant of wool and a British woman spent his childhood in Germany as well as in Chile and began after the High School in 1927 to study law and political science at the University of Marburg . In 1927 he became a member of the Corps Teutonia Marburg . In addition to the first state examination he put 1931 his promotion to the doctorate in law at the University of Marburg with a thesis on the topic "Are the Reich Minister imperial officials?" .

After a subsequent interpreting exam for the Chinese language , he joined the Foreign Service and worked from 1933 to 1935 first at the embassy in the Soviet Union and then at the embassy in Bulgaria . On March 1, 1935, he joined the NSDAP . After completing his training as an attaché , he was first secretary of the diplomatic missions in Mexico in July 1935 . In this function he was involved in the organization of Germans living in Mexico at the beginning of the National Socialist era . He also used this for propaganda purposes and fell back on the existing economic, school and social structure of the German colony. There were also many Jews and socialists among the Germans in Mexico since 1933, since Mexico was an important refuge for expelled and fled Germans.

He then served on the missions in succession Nanjing , Tianjin and Chongqing , and is expected in 1940 as Counselor , the daughter of a German diplomat for "anti-Nazi remarks" at the Beijing local leader of the Nazi Party have denounced. From 1941 to 1945 he was a member of the economic department of the Armistice Commission in Saigon as a delegation councilor, second class .

After the end of World War II Northe studied 1945-1950 medicine and put not only the medical state examination down, but his doctorate again and that on 25 October 1950, the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg as a Doctor of Medicine with a thesis on Experimental Contribution to drinking water disinfection through the preparation "Micropur" from Katadyn-GmbH . After his license to practice medicine, he was an assistant doctor for surgery at the Freiburg University Medical Center and the Bonn Medical Polyclinic between 1950 and 1951 .

Diplomat in the Federal Republic and promotion to ambassador

Nothing is known about its denazification . 1951 Northe met again in the re-created Foreign Service and was initially 1952 to 1955 as Counselor and Charge d'Affaires ad interim Chief of Mission in Japan . Later he rose to the position of ministerial conductor in the Foreign Office. Between September 1961 and 1967 he was ambassador to Peru . During this time he was in May 1963, together with the Peruvian Foreign Minister Luis Alvarado Garrido and the Minister of Aviation, Lieutenant General Salvador Noya Ferré, a signatory of the German-Peruvian Air Transport Agreement.

Shortly before the end of this activity, he was in discussion as the successor to Franz Krapf as head of Political Department II in the Foreign Office, which is responsible for all East-West issues. However, this function was taken over by the previous ambassador to Indonesia , Luitpold Werz , while he himself was permanent representative to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from 1967 to 1969 .

Northe then worked as a special envoy for Eastern Europe in the Foreign Office. As such, he prepared negotiations with Czechoslovakia in the spring of 1971 as part of Chancellor Willy Brandt's New Ostpolitik . He also held discussions with the US government about Europe's say in communications satellites .

In October 1972 he was one of the initiators of the Anglo-German Foundation.

In 1932 he received the Prussian Rescue Medal .

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 171 , 1232
  2. ^ María Emilia Paz Salinas: Strategy, Security, and Spies. Mexico and the US as Allies in World War II. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, Pa. 1997, ISBN 0-271-01665-5 , p. 27 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Monica A. Rankin: ¡México, la patria! Propaganda and production during World War II. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Neb. 2010, ISBN 978-0-8032-2455-1 , p. 19 ( digitized version )
  4. ↑ A treasure chest in bad hands. In: The time. No. 10/1974
  5. ^ Klaus Jetz: Old comrades. Nazi diplomats in Bonn service. ( Memento of July 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 2003
  6. ↑ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (cabinet minutes, September 27, 1961)
  7. ↑ Law on the agreement of April 30, 1962 between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Peru on air traffic of May 8, 1963 (Federal Law Gazette II p. 373) ( Memento of August 5, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  8. ↑ Foreign Office. Wrestling in proportion. In: Der Spiegel. No. 7/1966
  9. ↑ Luitpold Werz. In: Der Spiegel. No. 16/1966
  10. ^ Prague negotiations. Go slow. In: Der Spiegel. No. 16/1971
  11. ↑ Space / Intelsat. Shining Star. In: Der Spiegel. No. 11/1970
  12. ^ Ray Cunningham: The Anglo-German Foundation 1973–2009 (PDF; 253 kB)
personal data
SURNAME Northe, Heinrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Halberstadt
DATE OF DEATH May 29, 1985
Place of death Bonn