Ludwig Muckermann

Ludwig Muckermann (born July 19, 1899 in Bückeburg ; died April 28, 1976 in Genoa ) was a German businessman and diplomat.

Life

Ludwig Muckermann was one of 12 children of Anna and Hermann Johann Muckermann, a shoemaker in Bückeburg. The eldest brother Hermann Muckermann (1877–1962) became a priest and biologist, Friedrich Muckermann (1883–1946) became a priest and journalist, Richard Muckermann (1891–1981) became a politician.

Ludwig Muckermann attended the Adolfinum Bückeburg grammar school and a school in Sittard in the Netherlands . He was drafted in 1917 and seriously wounded. From 1919 to 1923 he studied economics in Cologne, Münster and Berlin. From 1925 he worked as a businessman in his parents' shoe shop and ran a shoe wholesaler in Bückeburg. After the handover of power to the National Socialists , like his siblings, he was critical of the regime. In 1935 Muckermann married the Italian citizen Luigia Juvarra, who was born in 1914, and they had seven children. Muckermann had to give up the shoe trade in 1940 and was sentenced to six months in prison in 1941 after a denunciation by a special court on the basis of the ordinance on extraordinary radio measures. While on leave, he fled to Italy and went into hiding in Rome . In 1943 Muckermann became a member of the German Anti-Nazi Association (DAV) formed by emigrants , to which Wolfgang Fritz Volbach and Willi Nix belonged.

Muckermann was accepted as an employee in the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic of Germany in the course of reparation in 1952 and worked at the German embassy in Bern . In 1954 he was appointed cultural and economic attaché at the consulate general in Genoa and vice-consul. In 1968 he returned to Germany.

literature

• Muckermann, Ludwig , in: Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking emigration after 1933. Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life . Munich: Saur, 1980, p. 510f.