Hermann Meyer-Rodehüser

Hermann Meyer-Rodehüser (née Meyer , since March 3, 1926 Meyer-Rodehüser ; born  April 1, 1883 in Soest , †  December 9, 1943 in Bonn ) was a German archivist and diplomat .

Life

In 1902 he made his Abitur at the grammar school in Paderborn . From 1902 to 1908 he studied philosophy, theology and law at the Philosophical- Theological Faculty of Paderborn , the Universities of Munich, Münster and Berlin, where he received his doctorate on March 9, 1907. phil. received his doctorate . He was a one-year volunteer from October 1, 1910 to September 30, 1911 . On December 18, 1913, he was appointed lieutenant in the reserve . From November 2, 1908, he was in the Prussian archives service, where he took the Grand State Examination on July 26, 1910. On November 1, 1911, he was appointed a laborer. On October 25, 1917 he was appointed archivist at the Prussian State Archives in Königsberg . From August 1914 to November 23, 1918, he made military service in the First World War .

As a result of the November Revolution of 1918, Karl Kautsky became Undersecretary of State in the Foreign Office as a representative of the Council of People's Representatives . He spent months studying the Office's documents from 1914 and in February 1919 presented a memorandum on the large part of the German Bethmann Hollweg government in the war guilt. In December 1918, Hermann Meyer began his service at the Foreign Office (AA) of the German Reich in Berlin, where he was temporarily employed by Alderman Kautsky (collection and publication of the AA files on the outbreak of war) until the spring of 1919.

From spring to September 10, 1919 he was employed again in the Prussian State Archives in Königsberg . From September 10, 1919 to January 15, 1920 he was temporarily employed in the Foreign Office. From February 1, 1920, he was in charge of organizing the main archive of the Foreign Office. From August 2, 1920 he was organizationally assigned to Department I (Personnel and Administration).

From February 1, 1924 to August 27, 1926, he headed the Political Archives of the Foreign Office .

On June 9, 1921, he was appointed to the Upper Government Council. From April 1, 1922, he was also a representative of the Foreign Office at the Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry into the Prehistory of the World War (PUA) . From February 23, 1923, he was also head of Department II (Western, Southern and Southeastern Europe), the Holy See Department . From April 17 to June 2, 1925 he was also acting head of the special division for Germany, internal German affairs. On November 22, 1923 he was appointed Legation Councilor, First Class , and on December 16, 1924, he was appointed Legation Councilor lecturer. On March 28, 1929 he was appointed Counselor to the Holy See , where he was employed from April 12, 1929 to October 20, 1931 and was appointed Counselor on October 9, 1929. On July 9, 1931 he was appointed consul general in Marseille , where he had exequatur from November 2, 1931 to November 2, 1935 . On 31 July 1935 he was in temporary retirement , and on 13 April 1937 in the retirement staggered.

family

His parents were Roman Catholic: Elisabeth born. Rodehüser and Johannes Meyer, a railway official. On June 20, 1927 he married Elisabeth geb. Huesker (father: Carl Joseph Georg H., textile manufacturer)

Works

• Text-critical studies on the writings of Lupold von Bebenburg. Diss. Munich 1908.
• Lupold von Bebenburg . Studies on his writings. A contribution to the history of constitutional and church-political ideas and journalism in the 14th century. Freiburg i. Br. 1909.
• The political writing in the German Foreign Service. A Guide to Understanding Diplomatic Documents. Tubingen 1920.
• The victory of the German language in the political dispatches from Prussia and the Reich. Paderborn 1923 (publications of the Section for Law and Social Science of the Görres Society for the Maintenance of Science in Catholic Germany 40).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerhard Keiper: bio manual of the German foreign service 1871-1945, Volume 3 L-Z . Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , p. 247.
2. ^ Bernhard Stasiewski , Adolf Cardinal Bertram : Contributions. Böhlau, 1992, p. 84.
3. ^ Sergio Pagano, Giovanni Coco, Marcel Chappin:  I "fogli di udienza" del cardinale Eugenio Pacelli, segretario di stato: 1931. Archivio segreto vaticano, 2010, p. 766.
4. ^ Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp: Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service, 1871–1945, Volume 3, L – R. 2000, [1] p. 247 [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] p. 248
5. ^ Reich Institute for Older German History (ed.): German Archive for the History of the Middle Ages, Volume 6. Böhlau, 1943, p. 327 “Dr. A serious illness prevented Hermann Meyer-Rodehüser from beginning his resolution to investigate the sources of the 'Tractatus de iuribus regni et imperii' by Lupold von Bebenburg, but now hopes after his recovery to be able to slowly start this work. "

predecessor	Office	successor
	Head of the Political Archives of the Foreign Office February 1, 1924 to August 27, 1926	Johann Sass (1867–1951)