Reinhold Renauld von Ungern-Sternberg

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Reinhold Renauld Freiherr von Ungern-Sternberg (born February 9, 1908 in Dorpat , † February 27, 1991 in Munich ) was a German ambassador .

Life

Reinhold Renauld von Ungern-Sternberg came from the Baltic noble family Ungern-Sternberg . He studied law , received his doctorate in law in 1931 and joined the foreign service in 1935 as a fully qualified lawyer. In 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,594,983). He was a member of the SA in Storm 33, which carried out the terror in Berlin when it came to power in 1933 . He was employed in Stockholm , Kaunas and since 1940 as a cultural advisor in Helsinki . From 1941 to 1942 von Ungern-Sternberg was assigned to the command of the 18th Army . After the armistice in Moscow in September 1944, the German diplomats left Finland.

After the end of the war, von Ungern-Sternberg was an independent entrepreneur. He emerged from the denazification process as "exonerated". From 1948 to 1951 he stayed for the Bank deutscher Länder in Frankfurt, after which he worked as a bank clerk in Canada . At the end of 1952 he was taken back into the foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany and worked in Sydney until 1956 . From 1956 to 1959 he worked in Bonn, where he was promoted to lecturer first class in 1957. From 1959 to 1964 he was ambassador to Iran . In 1962 Khrushchev rejected him as German ambassador in Moscow . From 1964 to 1967 he was ambassador to London . From 1968 to 1973 he was ambassador to Brussels .

literature

  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 100 f.
  • Andrea Wiegeshoff: "We all have to relearn something": on the internationalization of the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945/51 - 1969) . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1257-9 , p. 439

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank-Rutger Hausmann : "Even in war, the muses are not silent": the German Scientific Institutes in World War II , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001 ISBN 3-525-35357-X p. 277
  2. ↑ Christian Hartmann, The German War in the East 1941-1944: Facets of a Border Crossing , p. 375.
  3. ↑ Personnel file of the Foreign Office (archive signature P 14-58835)
  4. ↑ VEJ 7/63, note 2.
  5. ^ Press and Information Office, Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government , Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1959, p. 1695.
  6. ↑ VEJ 7/63, note 2.
  7. ↑ Die Zeit , 1964/34, [1]
predecessor Office successor
Lutz Gielhammer Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tehran
1959 to 1964 		Franz Josef Bach
Georg Federer Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brussels from
1968 to 1973 		Peter Limbourg
personal data
SURNAME Ungern-Sternberg, Reinhold Renauld von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Dorpat
DATE OF DEATH February 27, 1991
Place of death Munich