Hermann Terdenge

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Hermann Terdenge (born March 10, 1882 in Epe ; † June 10, 1959 in Münster ) was a German ministerial official and diplomat .

Life

After graduating from high school, Hermann Terdenge studied at the Paulinum Gymnasium in Münster at the universities of Berlin, Münster , Leipzig , Vienna and Munich . In the summer semester of 1913 he joined the Catholic student union WKSt.V. Unitas Munich . In 1920 the doctorate to Dr. oec. publ.

Terdenge began his civil service career in 1921 at the Reich Ministry of Finance . Initially hired as a scientific assistant, he rose to the government council and then to the senior government council and was press officer of the ministry.

In 1926 Terdenge was appointed to the Foreign Office as a lecturer in the Legation Council. From 1930 he was the conductor of the cultural department of the Foreign Office. In 1933 he came to the German Embassy in Paris . In March 1934 he was appointed consul general in Algiers - an office he held until 1936. He then switched to industry before he became chief district director of the Warendorf district in 1946 . In October 1951 Terdenge was reappointed to the services of the Foreign Office and became the first German ambassador to Argentina after the war . In November 1955, he was recalled from this post because, in the government's view, he identified too strongly with the former dictator Juan Perón .

Terdenge was associated with the German Archaeological Institute . For the Foreign Office he was a member of its central management, in 1929 he was with Richard von Kühlmann , Ludwig Curtius , Jakob Goldschmidt , Paul Kempner and Gerhart Rodenwaldt a founding board member of the Society of Friends of the German Archaeological Institute . For his services he became an honorary member of the German Archaeological Institute in 1929.

Awards

  • Honorary member of the Philosophical Faculty of the Universidad de Mendoza
  • Grand Cross of the Argentine Order of Merit (1955)

Publications

  • On the history of Dutch taxes in the 15th and 16th centuries . In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte 18, 1924, pp. 95–167 (= dissertation).
  • Westfalia desde Roma hasta la Edad Media . In: Revista de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba 1955, pp. 705-717.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Burr (ed.): Unitas manual . tape 2 . Verlag Franz Schmitt, Siegburg 1996, p. 301 .
  2. ^ History of the origins of the Theodor Wiegand Society

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personal data
SURNAME Terdenge, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Epe
DATE OF DEATH June 10, 1959
Place of death Muenster