Hilger van Scherpenberg

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Financial contract with India : Hilger van Scherpenberg (right) in the Foreign Office after signing an agreement with Indian representatives. (1961)

Albert-Hilger van Scherpenberg (born October 4, 1899 in Munich ; † September 12, 1969 in Hohenpeißenberg ) was a German diplomat and State Secretary in the Foreign Office (1958–1961).

Life

Awarding of the medal to Scherpenberg (left)

After completing his law studies in 1925 and completing his doctorate in 1926, Scherpenberg entered the diplomatic service. During the time of National Socialism he was first secretary of the legation , later he was the legation councilor in the position of head of the Scandinavian department in the trade policy department of the Foreign Office . He became a member of the Solf circle , which was attributable to the German resistance and was named after Hanna Solf , the widow of the German ambassador in Tokyo, who died in 1936. After this was betrayed by the Gestapo spy Paul Reckzeh , van Scherpenberg was defeated on July 1, 1944 by the People's Court Sentenced to two years in prison.

From 1945 to 1949, van Scherpenberg worked in the Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, then in the Federal Ministry of Economics and returned to the Foreign Office's trade policy department in 1953. From 1958 to 1961 he was State Secretary there. He ended his diplomatic career as Ambassador of the Federal Republic to the Vatican ( Holy See ) from 1961 to 1964.

Van Scherpenberg was the son-in-law of the former Reichsbank President and Reich Minister Hjalmar Schacht .

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 et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3
  • 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 3-89667-430-7 , ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2
  • Marion Papi: One out of office. Walter Staudacher (1900–1968). A documented biography. Metropol Publishing House. Berlin 2018. ISBN 978-3-86331-391-3

Web links

Commons : Hilger van Scherpenberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hans-Günther Seraphim (Ed.): The political diary of Alfred Rosenberg . 1934/35 and 1939/40. Documentation. Munich 1964, p. 39. (The editor was the brother of Peter-Heinz Seraphim .)
  2. ^ Henry Leide, Nazi Criminals and State Security: The Secret Politics of the Past in the GDR , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2005, p. 196ff ISBN 3-525-35018-X p. 196
predecessor Office successor
Rudolf Alfred Emanuel Count Strachwitz German ambassador to the Holy See
1961–1964 		Josef Jansen (diplomat)
personal data
SURNAME Scherpenberg, Hilger van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scherpenberg, Albert-Hilger van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and State Secretary in the Foreign Office
DATE OF BIRTH October 4, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH September 12, 1969
Place of death Hohenpeissenberg