Kurt von Kamphoevener

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Kurt von Kamphövener (born July 17, 1887 in Constantinople , † February 11, 1983 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was a German diplomat.

Life

As the son of Louis von Kamphövener , Kurt v. Kamphoevener at the Ruprecht-Karls-University law. In 1906 he became active with Jochen-Hilmar von Wuthenau in the Corps Saxo-Borussia Heidelberg . In 1911 he was drafted into the Foreign Service . He came to Sydney (1913–14), Sofia (1916–18), London (1920–23), Liverpool (1923–26) and Madrid (1926–31). In 1930 he became a member of the SPD .

From 1931 to 1945 he served in the Foreign Office, 1931–1936 as head of the League of Nations and from 1934 at the same time of the Spain and Portugal Division, 1936–1939 of the Militaria Division, 1939–1941 of the Peace Affairs Division. In this role, Kamphoevener headed a German government delegation that negotiated a resettlement agreement in Moscow in November 1939 with the Soviet government delegation headed by the former Foreign Minister Maxim Litvinov , who has since been demoted . In the course of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, this agreement regulated the resettlement of so-called ethnic Germans to the German-occupied territories and, conversely, of Ukrainians and Belarusians from the General Government to the Soviet area. From 1941 to 1943 Kamphoevener was the head of the German delegations in the border negotiations with Croatia, Italy and Slovakia. On July 1, 1940, he joined the NSDAP .

Nothing is known about its denazification .

In 1946 he became a foreign language teacher in Hamburg. From 1950 back in the Foreign Service, he was Consul General at the German Consulate General in Istanbul from 1950 to 1952 .

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .
  • Gothaisches genealogisches Taschenbuch der Briefadeligen houses, 1915, ninth year, p.460

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.bundesarchiv.de/cocoon/barch/0000/z/z1960a/kap1_11/para2_18.html
  2. ^ Franz Menges:  Kamphoevener, Elsa von. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 11, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1977, ISBN 3-428-00192-3 , p. 93 ( digitized version ). (Sister)
  3. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 66 , 1188
  4. ↑ Claudia Weber : The Pact. Stalin, Hitler and the story of a murderous alliance 1939–1941 . CH Beck, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-406-73531-8 , pp. 109–112.
personal data
SURNAME Kamphoevener, Kurt von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kamphövener, Kurt von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH Constantinople
DATE OF DEATH February 11, 1983
Place of death Garmisch-Partenkirchen