Luitpold Werz

Luitpold Werz (* 9. September 1907 in Bern ; † 12. September 1973 in Munich ) was a German diplomat in the era of National Socialism and the Federal Republic.

Life

His father was a diplomat at the Bavarian legation in Bern. Werz studied law , economics , languages ​​and literature in Geneva, Berlin and Munich , passed the first state examination in law, did his doctorate on sound film and copyright in an international context and joined the Foreign Service in 1933 . On October 1, 1934 Werz joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,873,248).

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From 1935 to 1944 Werz was accredited to the embassies of the German Reich in Spain, 1936 in Australia, in Pretoria as deputy consul and Portuguese East Africa . During the Second World War he sabotaged the government of Jan Christiaan Smuts in South Africa .

In 1948 Werz became the deputy office manager of the Prime Minister in Wiesbaden. He later represented the Conference of Prime Ministers at the Parliamentary Council in Bonn. After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, Werz was taken over by the Federal President's Office in autumn 1949, where Theodor Heuss appointed him for foreign affairs and cultural issues. From 1953 to 1960 Werz was counselor in Buenos Aires . On May 16, 1958 Werz was the negotiator in Madrid and received the new ambassador Wolfgang von Welck at the Estación de Norte . After serving as ambassador to President Sukarno , he became head of the East-West Department in the Foreign Office.

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , pp. 252-254.
• Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes , Moshe Zimmermann : The Office and the Past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2
• Hans-Jürgen Döscher : The Foreign Office in the Third Reich. Diplomacy in the shadow of the final solution. Siedler, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-88680-256-6
• EDR Harrison: On Secret Service for the Duce: Umberto Campini in Portuguese East Africa 1941-1943 . (PDF) In: English Historical Review. Volume CXXII, No. 499, December 2007, pp. 1318–1349 (About Werz 'Nazi espionage in South Africa and Mozambique, Lourenço Marques ; English)
• Alexandre Kum'a NDumbe III: L'Afrique noire et l'Allemagne dans la Seconde Guerre Mondiale. (PDF) Lecture at the Colloque sur “L'Afrique et la Sec. Guerre Mond. " Benghazi , March 1980. Published by UNESCO (French)

Web links

• Literature by and about Luitpold Werz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Wherever They May Be. The Beate Klarsfeld Foundation
2. ↑ 50 Foundation Festival of the Sued-Australian General German Association Inc., 1886–1936
3. ↑ Lega a Madrid el nuevo embajdor alemán, barón Von Welck. (PDF; 966 kB) In: Ofensiva. 17th May 1958
4. ↑ Luitpold Werz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1966 ( online ).
5. ↑ based on archival studies. Essentially a summary of his diss. Phil. Lyon, published as the book Hitler voulait l'Afrique in French (1980) and in German (1993). Werz's secret service employees in southern Africa: Paul Trompke and Lothar Sittig, called Felix. Both as authors of documents also in the book.

predecessor	Office	successor
Gerhart Weiz	German ambassador in Jakarta 1964–1966	Kurt Luedde-Neurath
Ernst-Günther Mohr	German ambassador in Buenos Aires 1969–1972	Horst-Krafft Robert