Heribert Schwörbel

Heribert Otto Paul Schwörbel (born February 28, 1881 in Cologne-Deutz ; † October 5, 1969 ) was a lawyer and an ambassador of the German Empire .

Life

During his studies, Heribert Otto Paul Schwörbel became a member of the Association of German Students in Berlin . It was published in 1906 with “The status of the German protected areas under state and international law. The colonial state law of England and France "at the About: its annex Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen for Doctor of Law doctorate .

Heribert Schwörbel then took over the post of attaché at the imperial consulate general in Constantinople . In 1911 his son Herbert Schwörbel was born. At the end of March 1914 Schwörbel was accredited as a dragoman at the consulate of the German Reich in Saloniki . On March 28, 1916, Schwörbel wrote a private letter from Pera to Johann Heinrich Mordtmann (1852-1932), Consul General in the Embassy of Constantinople, saying that a nephew of his caretaker had been kidnapped in the Armenian genocide . In 1915 his second son Edgar Schwörbel was born.

From 1927 to 1931 Schwörbel was accredited at the Consulate of the German Reich in Beirut and thus represented German interests abroad in Syria and Lebanon . As consul, he was involved in the negotiations for the excavations of Tell Halaf by Max von Oppenheim . In a publication on the work of German diplomats in Africa, it is expressed that Heribert Schwörbel had often advocated the recognition of their right to self-determination in negotiations with natives, as the following quote makes clear:

“The cultural position of a European state demands that it does not simply regard the natives as non-existent beings, but that they grant them the free right to self-determination as to whether they want to submit to its violence 'personally'. Of course, if he encounters resistance from the indigenous population, he is in no way hindered from the occupation. (...) The treaties of the German Empire with the natives are therefore to be regarded as concluded in support of the act of occupation. (...) International law does not see a person under international law in the tribe, but a majority of people. If a chief cedes land to a state, the contract concluded about this is binding. But it does not have the meaning of an assignment of territory for international law. The acquirer can only acquire territorial sovereignty through occupation because the chief is not an organ of a recognized state, the tribe does not have territorial sovereignty under international law. "

Another source cites Heribert OP Schwörbel as the German representative with the rank of minister in Afghanistan from around December 1930 to 1933.

During the Nazi era , in 1940, Schwörbel was appointed special representative for press matters at the embassy of the German Reich in Athens. From there he was promoted to Southeast Advisor in the press department of the Foreign Office. He was also a member of the board of directors of the Transcontinent Press , a news agency of the Foreign Office, and was editor of the Illustrierte Berlin Rome Tokyo . From the end of 1943 he headed the consulate in Vigo in Spain .

Schwörbel was a correspondent for the Nazi business newspaper Südost-Echo , which had been published in Vienna since 1939.

After the war , in November 1948, Schwörbel came to Passau and became an editor at Hans Kapfinger's Passauer Neue Presse .

Fonts

• "The consular jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of the mixed courts of justice in Egypt", in: Mitteilungen des Seminar für Orientalischen Sprachen (MSOS), Issue 9 (1906): pp. 1–30.

literature

• Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 , p. 233 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Louis Lange (Ed.): Kyffhäuser Association of German Student Associations. Address book 1931. Berlin 1931, p. 210.
2. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963. 2001
3. ↑ The Dragoman in Saloniki Herbert Schwörbel to the Consul General in the Embassy in Constantinople (Mordtmann) private letter. Pera, the 28th III. 1916.
4. ↑ German legations . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1928, Part III, p. 11.
5. ↑ Klaus Richter: German East Africa 1885 to 1890. On the way from the protection letter system to the imperial colonial administration. A contribution to the constitutional history of the German colonies .
6. ↑ Peter Longerich: Propagandists in War. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-486-54111-0 , p. 260, books.google.de
7. ↑ Peter Köpf : Writing in any direction. Goebbels propagandists in the West German post-war press. Ch. Links Verlag, 1995, ISBN 3-86153-094-5 , p. 109, books.google.de

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg	Consul of the German Reich in Beirut / Lebanon 1927–1931 March	Gebhardt von Walther
Leopold von Plessen	Envoy of the German Reich in Kabul / Afghanistan 1931–1933	Kurt Ziemke