John Troutbeck (diplomat)

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Sir John Monro Troutbeck , GBE , KCMG (born November 2, 1894 in London - Westminster , † September 28, 1971 in Horsham , West Sussex ), was a British diplomat .

Life

Troutbeck was the youngest of three children of the British solicitor and autopsy officer (Coroner for Westminster and the South-West District of London) John Troutbeck (1860-1912) and his wife Harriet Elizabeth Monro. His grandfather was the English clergyman, translator and musicologist John Troutbeck (1832–1899). He was educated at Westminster and at the College Christ Church at the University of Oxford . During the First World War he fought as an officer in the British Army in France and in the Gallipoli campaign . In 1924 he married Katherine Morley.

From 1920 he embarked on a career in the service of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , which sent him to Constantinople , Addis Ababa and Rio de Janeiro . 1936/1937 he headed the American Department in the Foreign Office. From 1937 to 1939, during the Sudeten crisis , he was Chargé d'Affaires of the British Mission in Prague . During the Second World War he worked for both the Foreign Office and the Ministry of Economic Warfare .

In 1943 he became head of the Advice on Germany working group in the Central Department of the Foreign Office. In this role he worked with William Strang , the British representative on the European Advisory Commission . In 1944 he became head of the German department of the Foreign Office. In 1946, under Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin, he was promoted to Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Economic and Commercial) of the Foreign Office and, as such, until 1947 had great influence on British policy on Germany , the solution of the Ruhr question and questions of the reorganization of German statehood in the British Zone of occupation in post-war Germany , particularly on the founding of North Rhine-Westphalia . In doing so, he drew up memoranda in which he warned of dangerous geostrategic intentions of the Soviet Union in Germany . Influenced by British Vansittartism it was felt that the Germans one over several generations scale program of re-education had to undergo. As head of the Advice on Germany working group, he had already presented ideas on re-education in December 1943 in his memorandum The Regeneration of Germany .

From 1947 to 1950 he was head of the British Middle East Office in Cairo . In this function he took a critical or negative attitude towards Zionism and the question of the establishment of Israel . In 1950 he returned to the Foreign Office as Assistant Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs (Information and Culture) . As the successor to Henry Mack (1894–1974), he became British Ambassador to Iraq in 1951 . He held this office until 1954. In 1955 he served as a British member of the Supervisory Commission for the Saar vote of October 23, 1955, which was held in accordance with the agreement between the governments of the Federal Republic of Germany and the French Republic on the Statute of the Saar on the question of whether the Saarland is to receive a “European statute”. From 1956 to 1962 he was president of the non-governmental organization Save the Children .

In 1939 Troutbeck was promoted to Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George , and in 1948 knighted as Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George. In 1955 he received the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire .

literature

  • Troutbeck, Sir John M. In: Colin Mackie: A Directory of British Diplomats . Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London 2014, part 2, p. 493 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Troutbeck , Grandfather's Biography / Family Biography in the portal westminster-abbey.org , accessed on January 5, 2018
  2. ^ Gustav Schmidt: England in crisis. Outlines and foundations of the British appeasement policy (1930–1937) . Writings of the Central Institute for Social Science Research of the Free University of Berlin, Volume 34, Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1981, ISBN 978-3-531-11492-7 , p. 690 ( Google Books )
  3. ^ Vít Smetana: In the Shadow of Munich. British Policy towards Czechoslovakia from the Endorsement to the Renunciation of the Munich Agreement (1938–1942) . Charles University Prague, Karolinum Press, Prague 2008, ISBN 978-80-246-1373-4 , p. 350 ( Google Books )
  4. ↑ Chris Cook, Philip Jones, Josephine Sinclair, Jeffrey Weeks: Sources in British Political History 1900–1951 . Volume 2: A Guide to the Papers of Selected Public Servants . The Macmillan Press, London 1975, ISBN 978-1-349-15568-2 , p. 244 ( Google Books )
  5. ^ Rolf Steininger : The Ruhr question 1945/46 and the emergence of the state of North Rhine-Westphalia. British, French and American files . Sources on the history of parliamentarism and political parties, Volume 4, Droste Verlag, Düsseldorf 1988, ISBN 978-3-7700-5144-1 , pp. 59, 132
  6. ^ Christian Rust: Germany and the post-war order. Great Britain, the United States and the foundations of a peace settlement with Germany in Paris 1919 and Yalta / Potsdam 1945. Germany and the Post-War Order. Great Britain, The United States and the Peace Settlement with Germany in Paris 1919 and Yalta / Potsdam 1945 . Dissertation Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin 2001, pp. 416, 426 f., 472, 475 f., 506, 508, 510 ( PDF )
  7. ↑ Falk Pingel: “The Russians on the Rhine?” On the change in British occupation policy in spring 1946 . In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte , Volume 30 (1982), Issue 1, pp. 106, 108 ( PDF )
  8. ^ Florian Huber : Re-education through radio. The re-education policy of the British occupying power using the example of the NWDR 1945–1948 . In: Peter von Rüden, Hans-Ulrich Wagner (Hrsg.): Nordwestdeutsche Hefte zur Rundfunkgeschichte , special issue, Hamburg 2006, pp. 42, 88 f. ( PDF )
  9. ^ Renate Held: Captivity in Great Britain. World War II German soldiers in British custody . R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58328-1 , p. 101 ( Google Books )
  10. ^ David Phillips: Education of the Germans. People and Policy in the British Zone of Germany, 1945-1949 . Bloomsbury, London 2018, ISBN 978-1-4725-0955-0 , pp. 19 ff. ( Google Books )
  11. ^ William Roger Louis: The British Empire in the Middle East 1945-1951. Arab Nationalism, the United States, and Postwar Imperialism . Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, Oxford 1998, ISBN 978-0-19-822489-3 , Chapter 9 ( Google Books )
  12. ^ Supplement of the London Gazette , June 10, 1949, p. 3369 ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Troutbeck, John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Troutbeck, Sir John Monro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH London - Westminster
DATE OF DEATH September 28, 1971
Place of death Horsham , West Sussex