Horst Groepper

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Horst Groepper (born June 17, 1909 in Kiel , † December 31, 2002 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat during the National Socialist era and ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Groepper was born the son of an officer. He attended the Paulinum high school in Münster , studied law at the Universities of Tübingen , Bonn, and a member of the Corps Hansea and Münster from 1927 to 1931 , and passed the two state examinations in law in 1931 and 1934. On May 1, 1933 , he joined the NSDAP . Between June 1933 and May 1935 he was a member of the SA , nothing is known about his rank. From 1934 Groepper worked as an assessor in the Reich Ministry of Justice and was briefly a judge at the Münster Regional Court in 1938 . In 1938 he joined the Foreign Service as an attaché . From 1939 to 1941 he was legation secretary in Moscow under Ambassador Friedrich-Werner Graf von der Schulenburg , returned to the protocol department of the Foreign Office in Berlin after the German invasion of the Soviet Union , and in September 1944, shortly before the end of the war, he joined the Wehrmacht on the Italian front drafted, where he was a British prisoner of war from May 1, 1945 to September 1945 . Nothing is known about its denazification .

Between 1947 and 1953 he was a lawyer in Münster. In 1953 he was able to return to the Foreign Service. After a deployment in Vienna , in February 1956, as head of the advance department, he helped rebuild the embassy in Moscow and, after working at the headquarters, succeeded Ambassador Hans Kroll in the Soviet Union in October 1962 . His term of office fell during a period of very tense German-Soviet relations during the Cold War . In March 1966 Groepper exchanged his post with the ambassador to Turkey Gebhardt von Walther . In August 1968 he was recalled. At the end of his career, he was briefly ambassador to Dublin from 1972 to 1973 .

With his wife Marlo Tamina, geb. Jantzen he had three children, his daughter Maria Tamina published his study on Bismarck's fall posthumously .

Awards

Fonts

  • Maria Tamina Groepper (ed.), Bismarck's fall and the disclosure of the reinsurance contract , Schöningh, Paderborn 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76540-6 .
  • Western European integration. Way to unity or farewell to the German nation? In: Helmut Kamphausen (Hrsg.): Denationalization as raison d'état? Arndt , Kiel 1986, ISBN 3-88741-018-1 .
  • Contribution in: Wolfgang Venohr (Ed.), It doesn't work without Germany: 7 authors on the situation of the German nation , Sinus Verlag, Krefeld 1982, ISBN 3-88289-204-8 .
  • Collaboration on the manual commentary on the Civil Code , Münster (Westf.): Aschendorff, 1948/1949.

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 11 , 502
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

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personal data
SURNAME Groepper, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH December 31, 2002
Place of death Bonn