Otto Eberl

Otto Eberl (* 23. July 1901 in Munich , † 10. November 1980 in Montevideo ) was a German diplomat in the era of National Socialism and in the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

The son of the manufacturer Karl Eberl and Marie, b. Zeiler attended the Realgymnasium in Munich and studied law and economics in Munich and Jena from 1919 to 1923 , where he received his doctorate in 1923 .

After working for the Bavarian Chamber of Agriculture and the private bank Aufhäuser , he was accepted into the Foreign Service in 1925 and had his first assignment abroad in Calcutta . He was married to Margaret Devereux since 1931 and had three children with her. In 1934 he was deployed in Rio de Janeiro , and from 1937 in Chile . During the Sudeten crisis he was in the Prague legation in October 1938 and joined the NSDAP on December 1, 1938 . From the end of 1938 he was a member of the Legation Council in Frankist Spain , where he was responsible for German-Spanish trade relations during the Second World War . Because of his wife's US nationality, he was given temporary retirement in September 1944. From May 1945 to August 1946 he was interned in the United States and Britain and then held various occupations in the United States .

In 1953 he was reactivated in the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic and worked in the embassy in Brazil until 1955 . After four years as head of division in the ministry, Eberl became ambassador to Uruguay in September 1960 . Eberl stayed in South America after his retirement in 1965.

Fonts

• The concept of the employment contract and its manifestations Service contract and work contract, me Outlook on d. Concept of the new employment contract to be created , Jena, Jur.Diss., 1923

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1