Leopold Krafft from Dellmensingen

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Leopold Krafft von Dellmensingen (born April 25, 1908 in Würzburg , † May 1, 1994 in Munich ) was a German diplomat during the National Socialist era and envoy of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

The son of the Bavarian officer Konrad Krafft von Dellmensingen attended the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich and the Schondorf educational home . He completed his law studies in 1927 and received his doctorate in 1932. In 1931 he entered the Bavarian judicial and administrative service. He had been a member of the SA since November 1, 1933 and in 1942 had the rank of SA Sturmführer . On May 1, 1942, he joined the NSDAP .

On April 6, 1934, he joined the Foreign Service at the Foreign Office (AA) and was initially employed in the embassy in Kovno and the consulate in Brno . From March 17, 1939, he was legation secretary to the representative of the Foreign Office at the Reich Protector in Bohemia and Moravia . After deployments in Paris and Brussels before the outbreak of the Second World War , after the end of the campaign in the west, he first went to the settlement center in Brussels and on August 24, 1940 to the representative of the AA with the French military commander . From 1941 to 1943 he headed the protocol department of the embassy in Paris under Ambassador Otto Abetz . In this time fell deportation of Jews from France to the Auschwitz concentration camp , where the Vichy regime and the German Embassy participated. From May 1943 Krafft von Dellmensingen did military service, although his use is not known, he was promoted to legation councilor during this time .

After the war ended, Krafft von Dellmensingen was an American prisoner of war until July 12, 1946. He then worked as a lawyer. Nothing is known about its denazification . From October 1947 to August 1948 he was assistant and appraiser for the main defenders in the IG Farben trial in Nuremberg . In September 1953 he was reinstated in the Federal Foreign Service and was Consul General in Calcutta until 1958 . In 1963 he took part in the meetings of the NATO Council . From the beginning of 1964 to the end of 1967 he was Deputy Secretary General Maurice Iweins d'Eeckhoutte of the Western European Union in London . After his retirement he worked as a lawyer in Munich. In 1976, as a witness in court, he could no longer remember his paragraph on Theodor Dannecker's statistics on the number of Jews imprisoned in France in November 1941.

Works

  • The subjective limits of the arbitration contract , Coburg, 1932. Erlangen, Jur. Diss.

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 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ahlrich Meyer : perpetrators in interrogation. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France 1940–1944 , Darmstadt 2005, p. 380 ISBN 3-534-17564-6
personal data
SURNAME Krafft von Dellmensingen, Leopold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Wurzburg
DATE OF DEATH May 1, 1994
Place of death Munich