Kurt von Tippelskirch (diplomat)

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Kurt von Tippelskirch (born May 12, 1880 in Neuruppin ; † May 15, 1946 in the Mariinsk penal camp ) was a German consul with the rank of consul general .

Life and professional development

Kurt von Tippelskirch was born as the son of the secret war council Wilhelm von Tippelskirch and his wife Armard, née von Pochhammer, in Neuruppin. The religious affiliation of the parental home was Protestant. He attended the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Hanover and then the Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium in Berlin-Wilmersdorf . Here he passed the Abitur at Easter 1898. After attending school, he began studying law at the universities in Lausanne, Munich, Leipzig and Berlin, which he completed in 1902. In February of the following year he passed the traineeship exam and in the same month took up a job in the Prussian judicial service. He passed the assessor exam in March 1908.

In the foreign service

At the beginning of the following year Kurt von Tippelskirch was drafted into the Foreign Service and began a consular career here. This began in February 1909 at the Foreign Office in Berlin in Department III, the legal department. After a year, in April moved to the trade policy department (Dept. II). From here he was recommended for a first assignment abroad at the German Consulate General in Shanghai . He took up this position on February 27, 1912. Before he left for China, he was given the character of a vice-consul. His assignment at the consulate lasted 5 years and was ended on March 14, 1917 when diplomatic relations were broken off. But it was not until six months later that he returned to Germany. When he arrived here, he briefly began his service in Berlin on December 13, 1917, and from here he was sent to the embassy in Amsterdam . Due to the confusion of the war, the work in Amsterdam lasted only three months and so on March 9, 1918 he took over the acting management of the consulate in Vlissingen in the Netherlands, province of Zeeland. On March 20, he was awarded the official title of consul, but in September 1918 he was reassigned to Berlin. Here he started his service on October 5, 1918 in Department III, Prisoner of War Unit. In August of the following year he was employed as a permanent laborer with the official title of Legation Councilor. At the beginning of February his area of ​​work changed to Department F - Peace - and in the middle of the month to Department V (Law) as Sub-Department F. His tasks were now primarily questions of prisoners of war and those guilty of war. From April 1, 1920 he became Legation Counselor 1st class and remained in Division V. It has now been assigned to Section Z (civil law). His next assignment abroad took him to the USA as a consul. From May 1926 he was involved in converting the Boston Economic Consulate into a career consulate. From July he was named Consul General. He then took over the business of the consulate on October 20, 1926. The duration of his activity at the consulate was almost 12 years. He was recalled from Boston at the age of 58 and was put into temporary retirement on June 30, 1938. This probably took place in the course of the personnel reorganization of the Foreign Office after Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893-1946) took over the ministerial post . Without a further period of service, he passed into final retirement on June 26, 1943.

In the meantime Kurt von Tippelskirch had withdrawn to his residence in Jacobsdorf in Lower Silesia. Here he was imprisoned by the Soviets on February 27, 1945. On September 15, 1945, he was sentenced to eight years in a prison camp. He served the sentence in the Siberian prison camp Siblag (Sibirski ITL, Siberian camp) in the system of the gulag near Mariinsk. Kurt von Tippelskirch died here on May 15, 1946.

literature

  • Conze, Frei, Hayes, carpenter; The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich, 2010
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.), Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. 5. T-Z, pp. 50f. and supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 .
  • Johannes Hürter , The Foreign Office in the Nazi Dictatorship, De Gruyter Verlag, Oldenburg 1963
  • Siblag prisoner camp on the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Johannes Hürter (Red.), Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, p. 49f. and supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0
  2. ↑ Stefan Kley, Hitler, Ribbentrop and the unleashing of the Second World War, Verlag Paderborn, Munich / Vienna, 1996
  3. ^ Conze, Frei, Hayes, carpenter; The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich, 2010, p. 125ff.
  4. ^ Siblag in the GULAG website of Memorial Deutschland e. V.
personal data
SURNAME Tippelskirch, Kurt von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuruppin
DATE OF DEATH May 15, 1946
Place of death Mariinsk