Johann Karl von Stechow

Johann Karl von Stechow (born April 26, 1902 in Charlottenburg , † December 29, 1969 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German diplomat during the Nazi era and ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Stechow's father Karl was a Prussian officer and so his school career had stages in Metz , Berlin and Jena. From 1921 he studied law in Tübingen, Königsberg in Prussia, Jena and Berlin and languages ​​at the seminar for oriental languages ​​in Berlin. After his legal traineeship in 1925, he was drafted into the Foreign Service in 1926.

Von Stechow was Vice Consul in Sydney from 1936 and returned to the Foreign Office in Berlin in 1938. He was promoted to Legation Councilor in the Political Department of the Foreign Ministry. On August 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . During the National Socialist era, Stechow and the envoy Fritz von Twardowski (1890–1970, until 1943 head of the cultural and political department of the AA), Dr. Max Schaefer-Rümelin (1889–1966) as well as Werner Zschintzsch (1888–1953), Rudolf Mentzel (1900–1987) and Herbert Scurla (1905–1981) from the Reich Ministry of Science, Education and National Education established the German Scientific Institutes abroad . The unrest in Czechoslovakia in 1938 was coordinated by the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle . One week before the Munich Agreement , von Stechow was informed on September 22, 1938 in the Foreign Office by the Volksdeutsche Mittelstelle that there was an order from Adolf Hitler according to which a Freikorps would occupy areas in "Czech Republic" in which there were no troops from Československá armáda are located. Von Stechow negotiated with the Gestapo about the shooting of Czechoslovak citizens.

In 1946 he joined the CDU . In 1951 he was reassigned to the Foreign Service and from 1955 was Counselor at the Embassy of the Federal Republic in Copenhagen. From 1964 to 1968 Stechow was German ambassador to the Philippines in Manila . Von Stechow did not have a doctorate, he received two honorary doctorates in the Philippines in 1966, from the University of San Carlos and from the Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan .

On December 30, 1964, von Stechow presented a fountain from which José Rizal had drunk during his stay in Wilhelmsfeld to the visitors of the Rizal Park in Manila . On July 29, 1966, he reported an increase in assassinations “which are almost exclusively attributed to the communist Huk movement. ... The acts of terrorism are not organized communist actions, but either have a criminal background or are part of a political vendetta between local politicians who use the Huk gangs for their own purposes. ... The communist-ideological moment does not play a significant role at the moment. However, this does not rule out that the Communists who are still active underground react again to the communist-ideological component under favorable conditions, especially when there is greater social unrest or increased support from abroad. Johann Karl v. Stechow died on December 29, 1969 in Bad Godesberg ”(Source: Genealogical Handbook of the Adels. Volume XXIII, page 451).

tomb

Von Stechow was married to Olga Ostrowskij, the German diplomat Andreas von Stechow is the youngest of the three sons. He is buried in Stechow in the community of Stechow-Ferchesar .

Publications

• The German Scientific Institutes abroad in PA AA R 67051

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 , pp. 329-331

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Foreign Office / Political Archive and Historical Unit: Files on German Foreign Policy. 1918-1945. From the archive of the Foreign Office . Göttingen u. a. 1950–1995 Series A to Series E; Finally with the supplementary volume: Complete directory of persons, portrait photos and data on service use, attachments. 1918-1945. From the archive of the Foreign Office . Göttingen 1995. Series D, supplementary volume, list of persons, p. 151
2. ↑ Lothar Gall, Arnold Esch, Klaus Hildebrand: Jahrbuch des Historischen Kollegs 2000. Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56557-5 , p. 131 ( digitized version )
3. ^ The Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Court of Justice in Nuremberg. Volume 7, Nuremberg 1947, pp. 236-256 ( digitized version ). Václav Král: The Germans in Czechoslovakia, 1938–1947. 1964 ( digitized version )
4. ↑ http://ufreytag.michel-media.de/page11.html
5. ↑ Referat I B5 vol. 277. after Rainer Achim Blasius, Harald Rosenbach: files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1966. Volume 2, Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56155-3 , p. 1267, footnote 14 ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Günther Schlegelberger	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Manila / Philippines 1964 to October 1967	Heinrich Röhreke