Paul Barandon

Paul Gustav Louis Barandon (born September 19, 1881 in Kiel ; died April 15, 1971 in Vienna ) was a German international lawyer and diplomat in the German Empire and during the National Socialist era .

Life

Barandon came from a Huguenot family . The son of the Prussian Vice Admiral Carl Barandon attended high school in Kiel and the Joachimsthalsche high school in Wilmersdorf . He completed his law studies in Lausanne, Munich, Berlin and Kiel in 1903 with a legal traineeship and a doctorate . After completing his military service, he entered the judiciary and, after passing the assessor exam in 1909, was drafted into the Foreign Service . From 1912 to 1914 he was Vice Consul in Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. From August 1914 to January 1918 Barandon was a soldier in the First World War , most recently with the rank of Rittmeister .

From 1920 to 1927 he was the German representative at the German-English Mixed Court of Arbitration in London , then a member of the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva . From 1927 to 1932 he was part of the local legal department. From February 1933 he was employed again at the Foreign Office as deputy head of the legal department. At his instigation, investigations were carried out against Georg von Broich-Oppert because he had “non-Aryan” ancestors and had kept this secret in a statement in August 1934. The official criminal proceedings were discontinued, but Broich-Oppert was put into temporary retirement in 1935.

From May 26, 1937 Barandon was consul general in Valparaíso . On June 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . After breaking off diplomatic relations with Chile , he was still deployed in Montevideo and Buenos Aires and returned to Berlin in July 1941 . From January 15, 1942, he was Andor Hencke's successor in occupied Denmark and permanent representative of the representative of the Reich in Denmark, at that time still Cécil von Renthe-Fink and from November 4, 1942, Werner Best . Barandon criticized the methods of German tyranny by police chief Günther Pancke . The representation of the Foreign Office in Copenhagen was also involved in the deportation of the Jews and on September 17, 1943 the recipient of a document initialed by Werner von Grundherr , Otto von Erdmannsdorff and Andor Hencke , in which "[d] he Reich Foreign Minister" requested representation, "On the manner of carrying out the evacuation of the Jews, which in principle has been decided to make precise proposals" .

Nothing is known about his internment and denazification . After the end of the war he became an honorary professor of international law at the University of Hamburg and from 1954 to 1960 a permanent member of the Court of Arbitration and the Mixed Commission under the London Debt Agreement .

Fonts

The legal status of international officials , Hamburg: Forschungsstelle f. International law and foreign public Right d. University, 1950
From Dunkirk to the Atlantic Pact , Basel: Verl. F. Law u. Society, 1950
The United Nations and the League of Nations in their legal-historical context , Hamburg: Rechts- u. Political Science Ed., 1948
The system of political state treaties since 1918 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1937
The League of Nations War Prevention Law , Berlin: C. Heymann, 1933

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
Robert Bohn (ed.), German rule in the "Germanic" countries 1940–1945 , Stuttgart: Steiner 1997

Web links

Literature by and about Paul Barandon in the catalog of the German National Library
Paul Barandon , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 14/1962 of March 26, 1962, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Institute for Contemporary History Munich-Berlin: Witness literature online. ZS 1000, Barandon, Paul (PDF file; 5.54 MB). Minutes of Barandon's interrogation on September 22, 1947, regarding the policy of the Foreign Office in Denmark; Etc.

Individual evidence

↑ Conze u. a., The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Munich 2010, p. 53ff.
^ Note from Munzinger. There the party membership in the NSDAP is not accepted.
↑ At Conze, the data on the employment of barandons in Denmark differ, see Conze u. a., The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Munich 2010, p. 243ff.
↑ Léon Poliakov , Joseph Wulf : The Third Reich and its servants. Fourier, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-925037-45-4 . P. 102; see also Rescue of the Danish Jews .

personal data
SURNAME	Barandon, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Barandon, Paul Gustav Louis (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German lawyer and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	September 19, 1881
PLACE OF BIRTH	Kiel
DATE OF DEATH	April 15, 1971
Place of death	Vienna

[1] Conze u. a., The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Munich 2010, p. 53ff.

[2] Note from Munzinger. There the party membership in the NSDAP is not accepted.

[3] At Conze, the data on the employment of barandons in Denmark differ, see Conze u. a., The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic , Munich 2010, p. 243ff.

[4] Léon Poliakov , Joseph Wulf : The Third Reich and its servants. Fourier, Wiesbaden 1989, ISBN 3-925037-45-4 . P. 102; see also Rescue of the Danish Jews .