Kurt Lindenblatt

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Kurt Lindenblatt (born October 11, 1885 in Freienwalde (Oder) , † February 10, 1952 in Potsdam ) was a German consular officer.

Life

Lindenblatt's parents were the pharmacist Wilhelm Lindenblatt and his wife Maria geb. Ulrich .

Lindenblatt attended the grammar school in Freienwalde and the Potsdam Viktoria grammar school , where he passed his Abitur in March 1904. After a semester at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , he moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg . In the winter semester 1903/04 renoncierte he the Corps Baltia . Two uncles were also Balts. After he had passed the trainee exam with "good" on September 11, 1907, he entered the Prussian judicial service on October 3, 1907. First he trained at the local courts in Beelitz and Koblenz . In 1909 he went to Munich, where on August 20, 1910, summa cum laude, he was awarded a Dr. iur. et rer. pole. received his doctorate. On July 4, 1912 he passed the assessor examination ("good"). He worked for the Disconto-Gesellschaft in Berlin and London. After becoming a government assessor, he was drafted into the Foreign Service (consular career) on March 16, 1914 .

At the beginning of the First World War , on August 7, 1914, he enlisted in the 4th Guards Field Artillery Regiment in Potsdam. From September 1914 he was with the fighting troops of the German Army in use. The Reserve Field Artillery Regiment 44 in the XXII. Assigned to the Reserve Corps (German Empire) , he took part in the First Battle of Flanders and the Second Battle of Flanders . With the corps since early June 1915 on the Eastern Front (World War I) , he took part in the capture of Brest-Litovsk . In the Serbian campaign of the Central Powers he was promoted to NCO and awarded the Iron Cross 2nd class. Requested by the Foreign Office , he was released from army service on March 13, 1916. Five days later he came to Dept. II (Commercial Policy) of the AA.

From September 29, 1917 to December 7, 1918 he was an unskilled worker and characterized Vice Consul (November 7, 1917) at the German Consulate General in Constantinople . On January 19, February 10 and 22, and on March 23, 1918, he attended the Old Men Senior Citizens' Convention . On January 16, 1919, the AA brought him to Dept. I A (Politics). From June 23, 1919 to October 10, 1920 he was at the Consulate General in Copenhagen . On November 18, 1920, he married the Danish Ellen Lund . From October 13, 1920 he was at the Consulate General in Amsterdam . On December 31, 1921, he resigned from the Foreign Service.

From January 1922 to April 1928 he was director of the credit bank in Sofia , from January 31, 1924 to April 28, 1928 at the same time electoral consul in Sofia. From September 1928 to August 1932 he was President of Bank Melli Iran . In Persian pre-trial detention since April 1933, he was sentenced on October 14, 1933 by a Persian criminal court to 18 months in prison for “breach of trust and unfair foreign exchange transactions”. Released from prison in October 1934 and acquitted , he traveled to Germany on December 8, 1934. From June 14, 1940 he was the administrator of the North German Potato Flour Factory in Küstrin . In the post-war period in Germany he was a lawyer and notary in Potsdam. He died at the age of 66 when the state of Brandenburg (1947–1952) was dissolved.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Biogram in the Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Office
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 84/249.
  3. ^ The brothers Ernst Gotthold Lindenblatt (1834–1916) and Johannes Lindenblatt (1839–1917) were high school teachers in Thorn and Wriezen.
  4. ↑ Dissertation: The asylum law of political criminals under international law with special consideration of the German extradition system .
  5. ^ A b c Siegfried Schindelmeiser: The history of the Corps Baltia II zu Königsberg i. Pr. , Vol. 2. Munich 2010
  6. ^ The storming of Brest-Litowsk (Frankfurter Zeitung of August 27, 1915)
personal data
SURNAME Linden leaf, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rhensius, Kurt (from 1936)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer in the consular service and in banking
DATE OF BIRTH October 11, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Freienwalde (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 1952
Place of death Potsdam