Laurence Steinhardt

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Laurence Steinhardt (no year)

Laurence Adolph Steinhardt (born October 6, 1892 in New York City ; died March 28, 1950 near Ramsayville, Ontario , Canada ) was an American diplomat.

Life

Laurence Steinhardt was one of two sons of Adolph Steinhardt and Addie Untermyer, the politician Samuel Untermyer was an uncle, his sister was the painter Therese Steinhardt .

Laurence Steinhardt studied law at Columbia University (BA, MA, LLB). Steinhardt married Dulcie Hofmann in 1917, they had a daughter. He became a soldier in the First World War and worked as a lawyer in a law firm from 1920 to 1933. After he had supported Franklin Roosevelt in the presidential election campaign in 1932, he was appointed envoy to Sweden by him in 1933. In 1937 he went to Peru as ambassador and became ambassador to Moscow on August 11, 1939 . After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, he was replaced by Admiral William Harrison Standley in November 1941 and switched to the post of ambassador in neutral Turkey in January 1942. After the liberation of Czechoslovakia he became ambassador in Prague . In 1948 he went to Canada as an ambassador. He died in a plane crash.

Fonts (selection)

  • A survey of the legal status of the labor union, its origin and development . Masters thesis, Columbia University, 1915

literature

  • Dennis J. Dunn: Caught between Roosevelt and Stalin: America's ambassadors to Moscow . Lexington, Kentucky:: Univ. Press of Kentucky, 1998 ISBN 0-8131-2023-3
  • Barry Rubin : Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt: The Perils of a Jewish Diplomat, 1940–1945 . In: American Jewish History, March 1981, pp. 331-346

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