Karl Pfauter

Karl Pfauter , called Carlos (born February 27, 1905 in Themar , Thuringia; died March 8, 1993 in Munich ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Pfauter attended the Georgianum grammar school (Hildburghausen) up to Obersekunda. He did an apprenticeship as a bookseller and worked in Coburg and Berlin. After graduating from high school in 1927, he studied economics, sociology and philosophy in Cologne (graduate economist), Vienna and Frankfurt am Main , where he received his doctorate. In the Weimar Republic he was involved in adult education and was from 1929-1931 an employee of the folk high schools of the VHS Leipzig and Habertshof in Fulda. Pfauter was a member of the SPD until it was banned .

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists , he found a traineeship at the metal company and made his way as a freelance journalist from 1934. In 1937 he became a clerk in the Reich Ministry of Economics in the Reichsstelle für Lederwirtschaft, from September 1939 he was department head there. After the German conquest of Greece in 1941, he was seconded to Athens as a scientific assistant to the empire's representative for Greece . In autumn 1944 he returned to Berlin and moved to the Russian front with the Volkssturm in January 1945.

After the end of the war he was employed by the EKD relief organization in Berlin and in July 1947 became head of culture for the city of Göttingen .

From 1954 he was head of the cultural department at the German embassy in New Delhi and from 1961 head of the economic department at the German embassy in Athens. 1964–1970 he was Consul General for South India in Madras. He spent his retirement in Munich. From 1976 he was in correspondence with his school friend Gerhard Steiner .

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , pp. 458f.
• Michael Dillmann: Heinz Hilpert ; 1990; P. 423
• Society for the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge : German Foreign Policy , Volume 13 (1968); P. 1223