Margarete Hütter

Margarete Hütter b. Jahn (born March 26, 1909 in Berlin ; † November 25, 2003 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German diplomat and politician of the FDP / DVP .

She studied foreign languages in England , France and the USA and then worked as a secretary and foreign language correspondent in Berlin, Paris and London . Politically, she was active in the democratic youth movement, including in England in 1929. After marrying the French Dr. Jean Hütter in 1933 she received French citizenship . When her husband became an officer in the German Wehrmacht , she was naturalized in 1943. From 1941 to 1945 she was a supporting member of the National Socialist Women's Association and from 1943 to 1945 a member of the NSDAP .

After the end of the war, she was briefly chief interpreter for the American military government for Württemberg-Baden before she lost this position because of her former NSDAP membership. She then became a consultant for American issues at the German Office for Peace Issues in Stuttgart . In 1948 she joined the DVP. The Independent Historical Commission - Foreign Office writes that "the former National Socialist [...] has made a name for herself since 1948 as a rabid advocate of the German 'war convicts'". In the first legislative period of the Bundestag, she moved up on September 15, 1949 for Theodor Heuss in parliament, as he had resigned his mandate after his election as the first Federal President . Hütter did not stand for re-election in 1953, but preferred to work in the diplomatic service in the Foreign Office in Bonn, in the Embassy in Washington and in the Consulate General in New Orleans . On September 29, 1955, she succeeded Karl Georg Pfleiderer in the Bundestag until 1957. She then returned to the diplomatic service, including as consul general in San Francisco .

The then Foreign Minister Walter Scheel campaigned for the continuation of her career: “At the beginning of 1972, he commissioned Margarete Hütter to manage the German embassy in San Salvador - the first woman to hold an ambassadorial post abroad.” Until her retirement in 1974, she remained as Ambassador to El Salvador .

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Albers	German ambassador to El Salvador 1972–1974	Erich Adam Huesch

literature

Ina Hochreuther: Women in Parliament. Southwest German MPs since 1919. Theiss, Stuttgart 1992, ISBN 3-8062-1012-8 , p. 196 ff.

Individual evidence

↑ 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, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 663.
↑ 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, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 663; previously only Ellinor von Puttkamer had been appointed ambassador by Willy Brandt as permanent representative to the Council of Europe (footnote 27, p. 801).

personal data
SURNAME	Hütter, Margarete
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Jahn, Margarete (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat and politician (FDP), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH	March 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin
DATE OF DEATH	November 25, 2003
Place of death	bad Godesberg

[1] 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, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 663.

[2] 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, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 663; previously only Ellinor von Puttkamer had been appointed ambassador by Willy Brandt as permanent representative to the Council of Europe (footnote 27, p. 801).