Hubert Knipping

Knipping (center) in May 1900

Hubert Knipping (born March 25, 1868 in Hameln , † June 16, 1955 in Bückeburg ) was a German diplomat .

biography

After attending school, he studied law and, after passing the first state examination in 1891, entered the judicial service of the Kingdom of Prussia as a trainee lawyer and became an assessor in 1896 . In 1897 he entered the diplomatic service and embarked on a consular career there. After completing his preparatory service , he worked successively at the consulates in Sydney between 1899 and 1902 as Vice Consul, Samoa and Shanghai . In 1902 he returned to Berlin and worked in the legal department of the Foreign Office . In 1904 he was promoted to the Legation Council .

In 1906 he was appointed consul in Tientsin and held this post until his appointment as consul general in Shanghai from 1913 to 1917. In early 1918 he was appointed to the secret legation councilor at the embassy in Bern . In 1919, however, he returned to Berlin and in 1920, as Ministerialdirektor, became head of the East Asia department in the Foreign Office, which from 1922 was designated Department IV b. In 1924 he was initially transferred into temporary retirement .

In 1925, however, he was recalled to the diplomatic service and appointed envoy to Brazil as the successor to Georg Alfred Plehn . He held this office until 1932. He retired the following year .

In June 1953 he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a Star .

Web links

Hubert Knipping in the online version of the Reich Chancellery Files Edition . Weimar Republic

Individual evidence

↑ RM Watson: History of Samoa - Chapter VIII. - Germany in Western Samoa. (1900-1914)
↑ Ralph Blessing: The possible peace. The modernization of foreign policy and Franco-German relations 1923–1929. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58027-3 , p. 58 ( digitized version )
↑ James J. Barnes, Patience P. Barnes: Nazi refugee turned Gestapo spy. The life of Hans Wesemann, 1895–1971. Praeger, Westport, Conn. 2001, ISBN 0-275-97124-4 , p. 9 ( digitized version )

personal data
SURNAME	Knipping, Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	March 25, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH	Hamelin
DATE OF DEATH	June 16, 1955
Place of death	Buckeburg

[1] RM Watson: History of Samoa - Chapter VIII. - Germany in Western Samoa. (1900-1914)

[2] Ralph Blessing: The possible peace. The modernization of foreign policy and Franco-German relations 1923–1929. Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58027-3 , p. 58 ( digitized version )

[3] James J. Barnes, Patience P. Barnes: Nazi refugee turned Gestapo spy. The life of Hans Wesemann, 1895–1971. Praeger, Westport, Conn. 2001, ISBN 0-275-97124-4 , p. 9 ( digitized version )