Otto von Radowitz

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Otto von Radowitz (born April 1, 1880 in Berlin ; died March 10, 1941 there ) was a German diplomat during the German Empire, in the Weimar Republic and in the time of National Socialism .

Life

Otto von Radowitz was a son of the diplomat Joseph Maria von Radowitz and Nadine Ozerow. One of his older brothers was the diplomat Wilhelm von Radowitz . He attended the grammar school in Freienwalde and after the one year studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau, Göttingen, Marburg and Münster. In 1900 he became a member of the Corps Saxonia Göttingen . He began his legal clerkship in 1904 in the Prussian judicial service and after the assessor exam in 1910 he was appointed to the foreign service . From 1912 to 1914 he was Vice Consul in Buenos Aires . During the First World War he was a soldier, at the end of the war he had the rank of Rittmeister . From 1920 he worked in the diplomatic mission in Riga , in 1922 he moved to Moscow . In 1925 he went to Innsbruck as consul general . From 1926 to 1933 it was not used. On June 1, 1931, he joined the NSDAP , von Radowitz also became a member of the SA with the rank of Obersturmbannführer .

After the seizure of power by the Nazis in 1933, he was reactivated and took over after some Republican or Jewish diplomats were from their positions removed in December 1933 by Edmund of Thermann the Consulate General in the Free City of Danzig , which under the supervision of the League of Nations was. In Gdansk, too, the NSDAP there had already taken power in the Gdansk People's Day and Senate since 1933, so that the Foreign Office continuously lost its influence. From 1936 von Radowitz was envoy in Luxembourg . After the neutral Luxembourg was invaded by German troops on May 10, 1940, he was recalled to Berlin on May 26. He was posted to the Foreign Office in Berlin from October 1940, but died the following year.

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , pp. 553f.
  • German Biographical Encyclopedia , Volume 8, Saur, Munich 2007, p. 152.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 85 , 514
  2. ^ Herbert S. Levine: Hitler's free city: a history of the Nazi party in Danzig, 1925-39 . Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago 1973
personal data
SURNAME Radowitz, Otto von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 1, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 10, 1941
Place of death Berlin