Kurt Rieth

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Dr. Kurt Heinrich Rieth (born February 28, 1881 in Antwerp , † February 4, 1969 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Kurt Heinrich Rieth lived in Belgium until the First World War , as the son of Heinrich Rieth (* Bonn 1844 - † St. Moritz 1918), importer of Russian oil in Belgium, the Netherlands and southern Germany . When Belgium was occupied by the troops of the German Reich during the First World War , Rieth worked in the occupation administration. Between 1915 and 1918 he was employed in the political department of the Imperial German General Government of Belgium .

From 1919 to 1921 he was chargé d'affaires in Darmstadt or, from 1920, authorized representative of the Reich government . He then worked at the embassy in Rome until 1924 . In 1923 he was appointed Legation Councilor. Between 1924 and 1931 he was counselor in Paris .

From April 1931 to August 1934 he was (as the successor to Hugo Graf Lerchenfeld and the predecessor of Franz von Papen ) ambassador in Vienna (as such he took part in the consecration of the Heldenorgan in Kufstein). On July 25, 1934, during the July coup , Odo Neustädter-Stürmer , Emil Fey and Franz Holzweber negotiated with Rieth the withdrawal from the Federal Chancellery in Vienna. In 1935 he was put into temporary retirement.

Coming from Rome, Rieth landed in Rio de Janeiro in March 1941 and flew further to the south of the USA in May 1941. In New York City , Rieth negotiated with the Chairman of the Board of the Standard Oil Company , Walter C. Teagle . Following a tip from William Samuel Clouston Stanger , Rieth was interned and deported by the United States Bureau of Immigration on Ellis Island in early June 1941 .

On June 14, 1940, Spanish troops occupied the Tangier International Zone . As a result, the German Reich set up a consulate with around 500 diplomats, which Rieth temporarily headed after his deportation from the USA. At the beginning of February 1944, the consulate of the German Reich in Tangier was closed by the Spanish occupation authorities under Luis Orgaz Yoldi . In 1953/54 he received a notice of reparation in which the official title Ambassador a. D. was specified.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ War & Peace: Unwelcome Guest , Time , June 9 1941
  2. ^ Diplomacy. In:  Wiener Salonblatt , No. 17/1934 (LXV. Year), August 12, 1934, p. 5, top right. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / Maintenance / wsb.
  3. ↑ Searchlights. (...) Hitler's Ambassador. In:  The Voice of Austria , year 1941, no. 1/1941 (I year), p. 13, bottom right, f. (Online at ANNO ). Template: ANNO / maintenance / voa.
  4. ^ Vienna: Federal Chancellery - Nazi Putsch July 1934 , on the website of the Documentation Archive of the Austrian Resistance (DÖW)
  5. ↑ No. 1 Nazi , Life , July 9, 1941 ( Google Books )
  6. ↑ German Consul To Leave Tangier , The Sydney Morning Herald , February 4, 1944 ( Google News )
predecessor Office successor
Hugo Graf von und zu Lerchenfeld on Köfering and Schönberg Ambassador of the German Reich in Vienna
1931–1934 		Franz von Papen
Otto Günther von Wesendonck Consul of the German Reich in Tangier
1941–1944 		Heinz Voigt
personal data
SURNAME Rieth, Kurt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rieth, Kurt Heinrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp , Antwerp Province , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH 4th February 1969
Place of death Frankfurt am Main