Leopold von Plessen (diplomat)

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Leopold von Plessen (1928)

Leopold Baron von Plessen (born June 13, 1894 in Darmstadt , † February 1, 1971 in Bangkok ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Leopold von Plessen came from the originally noble Mecklenburg-Holstein noble family von Plessen . The son of the landowner to Nehmten in Holstein , captain dR, Imperial Privy Council , Prussian ambassador and minister plenipotentiary a. D., Ludwig Mogens Count von Plessen-Cronstern and his wife Leopoldine, b. Countess Hoyos , was interned in England during the First World War from 1914 to 1919 and studied there. In 1920 he completed his studies and then worked as a trainee lawyer and joined the diplomatic service that same year .

First in 1921 he was deputy representative of the Foreign Office at the Reich Commissioner for the Occupied Rhenish Territories for some time . He was then legation secretary at the embassy in the USA between 1921 and 1926 . After his return to Germany in 1927 he became legation secretary in the special section W of the Foreign Office. In 1928 he became consul in the Consulate General Kolkata and 1929 after the adoption of August Friedrich Feigel as counselor d'affaires of the embassy in Afghanistan.

In 1929 he returned to Berlin , where he initially worked in the economics department. He was then acting head of the Nairobi Consulate from 1930 to 1932 . In 1932 he became an employee of the embassy in China and in 1933 moved to the embassy in England. After working as acting head of the Colombo and Yokohama consulates in 1934, he returned to the embassy in China in 1935 and remained there as a staff member. In 1937 he was appointed consul in Colombo, before he was electoral consul in Surabaya from 1939 to 1940 . Between 1940 and 1941 he was head of the branch office of the embassy in China in Chongqing with the rank of consul . In 1941 he switched to the embassy in Thailand as a staff member .

After the end of the Second World War he stayed in Bangkok , but was no longer accepted into the diplomatic service after the establishment of the Federal Foreign Office in 1951. For his services he was given the rank of Legation Councilor a. D. First class awarded.

Leopold von Plessen had been married to the American Eleanor Whiting since August 8, 1949, who died a few weeks after the wedding on September 1, 1949 in San Francisco .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see main line of Plessen
  2. ↑ see M. Naumann: Die Plessen. Line from the XIII. to XX. Century , Starke Verlag, Limburg ad Lahn, 1971, p. 139
  3. ↑ see M. Naumann: Die Plessen: Stammsequences vom XIII. to XX. Century , Starke Verlag, Limburg ad Lahn, 1971, p. 140.

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945 , published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .

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personal data
SURNAME Plessen, Leopold von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plessen, Leopold Baron von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 13, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Darmstadt
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1971
Place of death Bangkok