Herbert Dittmann

Herbert Dittmann (* 3. January 1904 in Langenberg , † 6. September 1965 in Munich ) was a German diplomat in the era of National Socialism and Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Herbert Dittmann studied law in Freiburg , where he became a member of the Corps Rhenania in 1921 , and was awarded a Dr. jur. PhD . From 1927 to 1928 he was an assessor at a court; In 1929 he joined the Foreign Service . From 1933 to 1936 he was the legation secretary at the embassy of the German Reich in Moscow . On December 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 4,789,472). From 1936 to February 13, 1939 Dittmann was Deputy Consul of the German Reich in Jerusalem in the BritishMandate territory in Palestine .

From 1939 Dittmann was employed in the legal department of the Foreign Office in Berlin, then still in the Russia committee of the political department and in the personnel and administration department. From 1940 to 1941 he was accredited as a Legation Councilor in Tehran . In 1942 he was promoted to Legation Counselor First Class and was the AA liaison to the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories . In the same year he was on the distribution list of the Task Force's Activity and Situation Report No. 10 , which was distributed by Undersecretary Martin Luther , which stated "that in the East the Jewish question can be seen as almost resolved and settled" ". From 1943 to August 1944 Dittmann was Consul General of the German Reich in Izmir and was interned there in 1944. After his return to Germany he was interned until July 3, 1946, nothing is known about his denazification .

From 1946 to 1948 Dittmann was a judge at the Dortmund Regional Court and from 1948 to 1949 a judge at the Hamm Higher Regional Court . Under Konrad Adenauer , Dittmann was deputy head of the liaison office between the Federal Chancellery and the Allied High Commission from 1949 to 1951 .

From 1951 to 1952 Dittmann headed the human resources department of the Foreign Ministry of Adenauer. In this key position, Dittmann contributed to the fact that many party members of the NSDAP found their way back into the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany. A letter from the 47th investigative committee of the Bundestag dated May 14, 1952 to Konrad Adenauer in his function as Federal Foreign Minister strongly recommended that Herbert Dittmann no longer be used in the Foreign Service. In August 1953, Adenauer sent Dittmann to Hong Kong as consul general. Returning to Bonn in 1958, he was promoted to Ministerial Director and permanent representative of the State Secretary in the Foreign Office under Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano . As an ambassador, first in Rio de Janeiro, and finally in Tokyo, Dittmann retired in 1965.

BDF

The "Fund for Germans in Need (BDF) - German Welfare Fund - ド イ ツ 人 支援 基金" in Japan was named after Herbert Dittmann until 2011 ("Ambassador Dittmann Fund").

literature

• Hans-Jürgen Döscher : rope teams. The Foreign Office's suppressed past . Propylaen Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-549-07267-8
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1
• 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 , p. 481 [supplement 1942].
• Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes , Moshe Zimmermann : The Office and the Past . German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 .

Web link

• Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law (online version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ KCL 1930, 35 , 950.
2. ↑ Foreign Office / Nazi diplomats: Someone in the house . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1971 ( online ).
3. ↑ Quote and distribution list from: Hans-Jürgen Döscher: The Foreign Office in the Third Reich. Diplomacy in the shadow of the final solution. Berlin 1987, p. 249, note 117
4. ↑ bundesarchiv.de
5. ↑ Herbert Dittmann . In: Der Spiegel . No. 33 , 1953 ( online ).
6. ^ Hans-Jürgen Döscher : rope teams. The Foreign Office's suppressed past . Berlin 2005, p. 291.
7. ^ Numbers and facts ( German ) Fund for needy Germans (BDF). Archived from the original on February 1, 2014. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 25, 2014. 

predecessor	Office	successor
Gebhardt von Walther	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rio de Janeiro 1959–1962	Gebhard Seelos
Fritz van Briessen	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tokyo 1962–1965	Walter Boss