Oskar Hermann Artur Schlitter

December 18, 1961: Oskar Schlitter and Ambassador Ernest Amos-Djoro sign a development aid agreement for the Ivory Coast.

Oskar Hermann Artur Schlitter (born June 15, 1904 in Essen , † November 12, 1970 at Offenstetten Castle ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Oskar Schlitter's father was Oscar Schlitter . Schlitter studied agriculture , received his doctorate in agricultural sciences in 1928 , joined the foreign service in 1929 and married Daisy d'Ora in 1932 . From 1932 to 1936 Schlitter was accredited at the Consulate General in New York City and in 1934 became a member of the NSDAP . From 1936 to 1939 Schlitter was employed at the embassy in London , where Joachim von Ribbentrop was ambassador . 1939 “Aryanized” Schlitter Offenstetten Castle .

From 1939 to 1943 Schlitter was employed in Wilhelmstrasse (Berlin-Mitte) . On April 6, 1940, Schlitter discussed with Ernst von Weizsäcker , Friedrich Gaus , Kurt Himer (born December 21, 1888 in Kottbus, † April 4, 1942 in Simferopol ), Hartwig Pohlmann, Hermann Böhme (from OKW) and two other officials from Wilhelmstrasse -Office the part of the Weser Exercise company relating to Denmark . On April 9, 1940, Schlitter brought instructions to the embassy in Copenhagen in his diplomatic bag, as well as the general uniform for Senior Councilor Himer, who had traveled ahead. Equipped in this way, Himer briefed the staff of the embassy in Copenhagen and Pohlmann the staff of the embassy in Oslo on the situation.

In the Politics II department, Dr. Schlitter promoted from Legation Secretary to Legation Councilor . Until 1942 he and Hans Schwarzmann seconded Otto Abetz's policy of repression in the occupied part of France. Schlitter seconded Adolf Beckerle in the fact that the ambassador Jules-François Blondel (* 1887 in Arras; † 1965), who was sent to Sofia by the Vichy regime , who was married to a Jew, was replaced in September 1942 "by a reliable German-friendly personality".

From 1943 to 1944 Schlitter was accredited as a consul in Lugano . From 1944 to May 1945 Schlitter was employed in the trade policy department, Italy department of the Reich Foreign Ministry.

From 1946 to 1952, Schlitter managed the agriculture it acquired in 1939. In 1952 Schlitter was hired in the foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1952 to 1953 Schlitter was Deputy Ambassador Adalbert von Bayern in Madrid . During a three-month absence from Albert von Bayern Schlitter was chargé d' affaires .

Konrad Adenauer confused Otto John with Oskar von John, Ministerialrat in the Administration for Food, Agriculture and Forests. When replacing the first German embassy counselor in London, Georg Rosen , Hans Schlange-Schöningen , his political advisor and intimate partner Oskar von John, had in mind when he requested an agricultural expert for this position. The Foreign Office transferred Schlitter from Madrid to this position.

From 1955 to 1958 Schlitter was put into temporary retirement after his wife gossiped at the German embassy at the 1954 Christmas party and spoke of "hostile foreign countries".

From 1958 to 1964 Schlitter was employed in the Foreign Office's trade and development policy department . In 1963, Oskar Schlitter led German-Yugoslav negotiations. When the negotiations failed on July 13, 1963, Schlitter had an urgent appointment in London . Ordered back by Karl Carstens to Bonn, Schlitter declared on July 19, 1963, US Counselor Coburn Kidd in Bonn that Josip Broz Tito could not have counted on the guarantee of new bonds by the federal government or a global settlement of the question of reparation in the context of economic negotiations. For humanitarian reasons, the federal government was ready to increase the compensation payments for the victims of pseudo-medical experiments .

On March 18, 1966, Schlitter signed a double taxation agreement with the Greek government. Shortly thereafter, Schlitter was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany as "Ambassador, Athens" . During his tenure as ambassador, the beginning of the Greek military dictatorship fell on April 21, 1967 . Schlitter had no reservations about the undemocratic regime . On June 27, 1969, Schlitter negotiated with Georgios Papadopoulos and other members of the junta , with the aim of a peaceful agreement: The junta eases certain repression measures while the Council of Europe refrains from excluding the military regime.

Schlitter died of a myocardial infarction .

literature

• Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3
• Andrea Wiegeshoff: "We all have to relearn something": on the internationalization of the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945/51 - 1969) . Wallstein, Göttingen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8353-1257-9 , p. 435

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Great Britain. Just Daisy. In: Time . 17th January 1955
2. ↑ Braunbuch , braunbuch.de ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Birgit Aschmann : "Faithful friends ..."? West Germany and Spain, 1945–1963. Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999, ISBN 3-515-07579-8 , pp. 204–205, footnote 26 ( books.google.de )
4. ^ Schlitter affair / diplomats. The golden bridges. “Ms. Daisy” on the front pages . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1955 ( online ).
5. ↑ Konrad Adenauer : Letters. Volume 7, 2000, p. 437.
6. ↑ Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1963. Volume 1. Oldenbourg, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-55964-8 , p. 758 ( books.google.de )
7. ↑ Double taxation agreement between Germany and Greece ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ^ Mogens Pelt: Tying Greece to the West. US-West German-Greek relations 1949–1974. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2006, ISBN 87-7289-583-7 , p. 297 ( books.google.de )

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm Melchers	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Athens February 17, 1965 to February 9, 1970	Peter Limbourg