Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein
Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein (born October 22, 1898 in Frankfurt am Main , † April 20, 1945 in Brandenburg an der Havel ) was a German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism.
Life
Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein was born as the great-nephew of the first Prussian mayor of Frankfurt Daniel Heinrich Mumm von Schwarzenstein . His parents were the banker Alfred Mumm von Schwarzenstein (1874–1935) and his wife Martha geb. Delius (1875–1938), his younger brother the diplomat Bernd Mumm von Schwarzenstein . In 1917 he obtained his Abitur, which was followed by military service until the end of the First World War . From 1919 to 1921 he studied law at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1919 he became a corps bow bearer of the Palatia Bonn . In 1922 he passed the first examination at the Consular Academy in Vienna , before attending the new University of Cologne as a Dr. iur. received his doctorate. In March 1923 he joined the diplomatic service of the German Reich . His first foreign post was the German Embassy in London , where he worked as the legation secretary under Ambassador Friedrich Sthamer . In 1925 he moved to the German Embassy in Tokyo . It was there that Mumm von Schwarzenstein met the former foreign minister and ambassador at the time, Wilhelm Solf . From 1927 to 1935 Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein worked in the Foreign Office in Berlin, interrupted by delegations to the secretariat of Reich President Paul von Hindenburg and to the German embassy in Oslo (1931/32). Ever since the Gestapo was established, it has been investigating the dissident diplomat. In February 1935 he was arrested for alleged offenses under Section 175 StGB, as were other unpopular officials at the time (for example Achim Gercke and Helmut Nicolai ). But initially he managed to escape the clutches of the Nazi regime. Through his former superior Wilhelm Solf and his wife Hanna Solf , Mumm von Schwarzenstein came into the resistance circles. He soon belonged to the inner circle of the Solf circle , which mainly united diplomats critical of the regime. Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein worked at this time as a historical advisor to film companies. He was arrested on February 23, 1942 (see: Nikolaus Christoph von Halem ). However, the judgment of the People's Court came only two years later. The prisoner was sentenced to death and executed by shooting on April 20, 1945 in the Brandenburg-Görden prison.
“Herbert Mumm was a master at treating people, he loved people and saw God's creatures in them. He opposed the dictatorship in Germany because he could not bear that human dignity and freedom were trampled underfoot. "
In 2000, the Foreign Office set up a memorial for resistance fighters from the ranks of the diplomatic corps, where Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein's have been commemorated ever since.
See also
literature
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, Vol. 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger (Ed.): L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .
- Peter Hahn: [Alfons] Mumm - diplomat, photographer & different from the others [with contributions to the Mumm von Schwarzenstein family and Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein]. Oase Verlag, Badenweiler 2012. ISBN 978-3-88922-099-8 .
- Henning Freiherr von Soden: Herbert Mumm von Schwarzenstein , in: Sebastian Sigler (ed.): Corps students in the resistance against Hitler . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2014. ISBN 978-3-428-14319-1 , pp. 177-190.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 14/672.
- ↑ Bernd-Ulrich Hergemöller: Man for Man - A biographical lexicon . Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2001, ISBN 3-518-39766-4 .
- ↑ Biography on rosa-winkel.de , accessed on April 5, 2017
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Mumm von Schwarzenstein, Herbert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat and resistance fighter against National Socialism |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 22, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt (Main) |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 20, 1945 |
| Place of death | Brandenburg on the Havel |