Manfred Klaiber

Inauguration of the German Embassy in Paris 1963

Manfred Otto Klaiber (born June 8, 1903 in Grafenberg / Württemberg, † July 16, 1981 in Stuttgart ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Klaiber is the son of the Swabian literary historian Theodor Klaiber. He attended the Karls-Gymnasium in Stuttgart and studied law in Berlin and Tübingen . There he became a member of the Academic Society Stuttgardia Tübingen . After receiving his doctorate in 1925, he was drafted into the Foreign Service in 1926. His first stops were Paris , Pretoria and Batavia . On October 1, 1934, he joined the NSDAP .

time of the nationalsocialism

During the time of National Socialism , Klaiber was deployed under Joachim von Ribbentrop from 1938 at the embassy in Ankara under Franz von Papen . A book published in 1987 gave Klaiber joint responsibility for the sinking of the " Struma ", a ship chartered with 769 Jewish refugees, which is said to have wrecked on February 25, 1942 in the Bosporus. This statement in turn goes back to an assertion from the East German publication Aus der Tagebuch eines Judenmorders from 1956. In 1965, however, an investigation into the incident published by a West German publisher came to the conclusion that the goiter was rather caused by the Soviet submarine Shch-213 - and not by a German speedboat - was torpedoed and sunk. From November 1942 he was in Belgrade with the “Representative of the AA at the Military Commander in Serbia” and from 1944 in Vienna in the AA office for Greece, Serbia, Albania and Montenegro.

Nothing is known about its denazification .

post war period

From May 1947 Klaiber worked in the Württemberg-Baden State Ministry and from 1948 as Ministerialrat Plenipotentiary in the administration of the United Economic Area in Frankfurt am Main .

Between 1949 and 1957 he was head of the office of the Federal President . In this office, Klaiber had held the position of State Secretary since 1953 . In 1957 Klaiber was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1957 to 1963 he was ambassador to Rome , then until 1968 ambassador to Paris .

In 1939 he married Ruth, b. Staengel (1910-1991). The marriage resulted in a son and two daughters. His son Klaus-Peter Klaiber (* 1940) also became a diplomat.

publication

Si può parlare di un miracolo nell'economia germanica? : Discorso pronunciato a Roma, il 28 gennaio 1959, nella sede del Banco di Roma, sotto gli auspici del Centro italiano di studi per la riconciliazione internazionale , Rome 1959

Web links

Literature by and about Manfred Klaiber in the catalog of the German National Library
Resume . In: Gerhard Köbler : Who is who in German law , p. 278 (online version)
Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law (online version)

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

↑ ^a ^b ^c H.D. Heilmann, From the war diary of the diplomat Otto Bräutigam . In: Götz Aly u. a. (Ed.): Biedermann and desk clerk . Materials on the German biography of the perpetrators, Institute for Social Research in Hamburg: Contributions to National Socialist Health and Social Policy 4, Berlin 1987, p. 165, note 9.
^ Committee for German Unity (ed.): From the diary of a murderer of Jews. Berlin-Ost 1956, p. 35 The whole assertion comes from without source evidence and reports nebulously about "Insight name of an informant in Turkish files"
↑ German speedboats were only transferred from Hamburg over the Elbe to Dresden, then land to Ingolstadt and then the Danube down to the Black Sea, beginning at the beginning of April 1942
↑ Jürgen Rohwer (Ed.): The sinking of the Jewish refugee transporters Struma and Mefkure in the Black Sea , historical investigation; Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Frankfurt, 1965.

Web links

Commons : Manfred Klaiber - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Works by and about Manfred Klaiber in the German Digital Library
Manfred Klaiber in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Manfred Otto Klaiber in the information system for Baden-Württemberg (LEO-BW)

predecessor	Office	successor
Herbert Blankenhorn Sigismund Freiherr von Braun	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to France 1963 - 1968 1968 - 1970	Sigismund Freiherr von Braun Hans Helmuth Ruete

personal data
SURNAME	Klaiber, Manfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Klaiber, Manfred Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	June 8, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH	Grafenberg
DATE OF DEATH	July 16, 1981
Place of death	Stuttgart

[Heilmann165-1] H.D. Heilmann, From the war diary of the diplomat Otto Bräutigam . In: Götz Aly u. a. (Ed.): Biedermann and desk clerk . Materials on the German biography of the perpetrators, Institute for Social Research in Hamburg: Contributions to National Socialist Health and Social Policy 4, Berlin 1987, p. 165, note 9.

[2] Committee for German Unity (ed.): From the diary of a murderer of Jews. Berlin-Ost 1956, p. 35 The whole assertion comes from without source evidence and reports nebulously about "Insight name of an informant in Turkish files"

[3] German speedboats were only transferred from Hamburg over the Elbe to Dresden, then land to Ingolstadt and then the Danube down to the Black Sea, beginning at the beginning of April 1942

[Rohwer1-4] Jürgen Rohwer (Ed.): The sinking of the Jewish refugee transporters Struma and Mefkure in the Black Sea , historical investigation; Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Frankfurt, 1965.