Heinz Trützschler from Falkenstein

Heinz Julius Hugo von Trützschler, Freiherr zum Falkenstein , briefly known as Heinz Trützschler von Falkenstein (born November 26, 1902 in Nordhausen ; † June 6, 1971 in Munich ) was a German ambassador .

The officer's son comes from the Trützschler von Falkenstein line of the Trützschler family . He was a Protestant, married and had two children.

Life

Weimar Republic

Heinz Trützschler von Falkenstein studied history , economics and philosophy after graduating from high school . In July 1924, the Friedrichs University Halle was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD . The title of his dissertation , published in Berlin in 1924, was "Bismarck and the Danger of War in 1887". From 1921 to 1926 he was an unskilled worker at the Foreign Office in the file publication The great politics of the European cabinets . This was followed by stays abroad in England and the United States until 1928 , financed by a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation . From 1929 to 1930 he was employed by Albrecht Mendelssohn Bartholdy at the Institute for Foreign Policy at the University of Hamburg . From 1931 to 1933 he worked in the information department of the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva .

time of the nationalsocialism

After the victory of the National Socialist German Workers' Party in the Reichstag election in March 1933 , he was a research assistant in the cultural department of the Foreign Office from the beginning to mid-1934. Called up for the Foreign Service, he was attaché from 1934 and vice-consul at the German consulate in Geneva from 1936 to 1939 . After the smashing of the rest of Czech Republic , he was legation secretary at the German embassy in Prague from mid-March to mid-May 1939 and then at the German embassy in Warsaw until the beginning of September 1939 .

From September 1939 until the end of the Second World War , Trützschler von Falkenstein was a Legation Councilor in the Foreign Office, where from 1941 he headed the General Foreign Policy Department . He was promoted to Legation Council II class in 1941, and to Legation Council I class in 1944. He had been a member of the NSDAP since October 1, 1940 (membership number 8,183,952). During the war he took part in the editing of the white papers , which were supposed to justify the National Socialist foreign and war policy, and “drafted 'language regulations' of the Foreign Office for foreign missions”. In 1943/44 he was Friedrich Landfried's personal advisor in his temporary second position as head of the military administration in Italy .

post war period

After the employees of the Foreign Office had left the Reich capital in the course of the Battle of Berlin , Trützschler von Falkenstein and other colleagues were automatically arrested by the Allies at the end of the war in Bad Gastein . From 1946 to 1949 he worked in the Hessian State Statistical Office .

He was questioned on August 25, 1947 by Robert W. Kempner in the course of the Nuremberg trials . Trützschler von Falkenstein was denazified as exonerated in Wiesbaden in 1948 after a court hearing . a. because he did not join the Ribbentrop office and "was passed over during promotions".

On August 13, 1949, Heinz Trützschler von Falkenstein was appointed senior government councilor. At the end of 1949 he was a member of the liaison office to the Allied High Commission in the Federal Chancellery . On November 22, 1950, he was reappointed by the Legation Council First Class. From 1951 he returned to the Foreign Service, initially from 1951 to 1955 as deputy head of the political department . In this capacity he was a negotiator for the Foreign Office in the Prisoners of War subcommittee in 1951. He then worked as deputy head of the delegation in the course of the German-Israeli reparation negotiations. During this time, an investigative committee of the Bundestag presented its results on Trützschler's Nazi exposure and voted as follows:

"In principle, the committee of inquiry has no reservations about continuing to work in the Foreign Office, but recommends that no promotions be announced until further notice. The committee is against the use of Dr. Trützschler from Falkenstein abroad. "

The committee of inquiry gave the following reasons, among other things:

“If the man who was involved in shaping the war propaganda in the Political Department during the entire war was involved in shaping the war propaganda, it would damage the reputation of the Federal Republic of Germany. In particular, the committee of inquiry finds it unacceptable that Dr. v. Trützschler, as head of the AA, represents the Federal Republic's European policy. "

From 1955 to 1959 he was head of the cultural department in the Foreign Office. From 1959 to 1963 he was ambassador to Pakistan and from 1963 to 1967 to Ireland . Even after he was retired, he was given special tasks. Trützschler is mentioned in the GDR Brown Book . He was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a star on December 6, 1960 .

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 .
• Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Who was what before and after 1945 . 2nd Edition. Fischer-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 . (Short biography)
• Examination of Heinz Julius Hugo Trützschler von Falkenstein on August 25, 1947, by Robert Kempner . [and interrogation on June 12, 1947 and December 11, 1947]. In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History , Munich, signature ZS - 784-1 1948/56 ( online (PDF; 2.3 MB); minutes of the interrogations of Trützschler von Falkenstein in the context of the Nuremberg trials).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i} Written report of the committee of inquiry (47th committee) in accordance with the request of the SPD parliamentary group regarding the examination of whether abuses have occurred in the Foreign Office as a result of personnel policy , printed paper No. [1 /] 3465 of the German Bundestag , P. 34 f.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Heinz Trützschler von Falkenstein in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Trützschler von Falkenstein, Heinz on http://www.bundesarchiv.de
4. ^ Bernhard Löffler: Social market economy and administrative practice. The Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard. Stuttgart 2002, p. 178
5. ↑ Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann: The office and the past . German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 336.
6. ^ Interrogations of Heinz Julius Hugo Trützschler von Falkenstein on August 25, 1947, by Robert Kempner . [and interrogation on June 12, 1947 and December 11, 1947]. In: Archive of the Institute for Contemporary History, Munich, signature ZS - 784-1 1948/56
7. ^ ^{A b} Ernst Klee: Das Personenlexikon zum Third Reich , Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 631.
8. ↑ Braunbuch, reprint of the 3rd edition from 1968, ISBN 3-360-01033-7 ), p. 275.

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Carl Podeyn	Ambassador of the German Federal Government in Karachi / Islamabad 1959 to 1963	Günther Scholl
1960–1963: Adolph Reifferscheidt	Ambassador of the German Federal Government in Dublin 1963 to 1967	Karl Overbeck