Richard Hertz

Richard Hertz (born May 23, 1898 in Hamburg , † August 2, 1961 in Mexico City ) was a German ambassador to South Korea and Mexico .

Life

When he entered the foreign service of the German Reich, Richard Hertz had stated that the religion was Evangelical-Lutheran . Richard Hertz was Vice Consul of the German Reich in Batavia and Singapore in 1927 , where he was friends with the Chilean Honorary Consul in Batavia and Singapore, Pablo Neruda . Hertz wrote detailed reports on the political situation in Java to the Foreign Ministry of the German Reich . He described the independence movement. In a report from 1927 he described the situation in the Dutch East Indies , racial problems of the majority population, which were dominated by Dutch and their descendants and others who fought for complete independence from Holland. Hertz mentioned a failed communist uprising in 1926 and the appearance of figures from anti-Dutch groups: the communist party and the pan-Islamic movement , including Sukarno , who had just left prison at the age of 26. In 1932 Richard Hertz returned to Berlin, where he was employed in Department II of the Foreign Ministry on Wilhelmstrasse . In August 1933, the Foreign Office was sworn in to Adolf Hitler . In February 1937, Richard Hertz was sent to Chicago as Consul General . In March 1937 Richard Hertz was recalled due to the Nuremberg Laws . Richard Hertz stayed in the USA and worked as a professor at Dubuque University in Iowa.

After 1945 Richard Hertz became the first Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany in Los Angeles . In this function he was appointed in September 1957 by Dr. Eduard Schneider replaced. On October 10, 1957, Richard Hertz submitted his letter of accreditation to President Rhee Syng-man in Seoul as the first authorized ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to South Korea. On December 5, 1960, Hertz presented his letter of accreditation to President Adolfo López Mateos in Mexico. In Mexico, Hertz resided on the Paseo de las Palmas in 1991 in the Lomas de Chapultepec district where he suffered a fatal stroke .

family

Richard Hertz's grandfathers were Carl Eggert and Gustav Ferdinand Hertz . Gustav Ferdinand Hertz had converted from the Jewish religion to Protestantism with his parents in 1834 and was a senator in the Senate of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg . His mother was Carmen Eggert (March 25, 1868 in Berlin, † March 31, 1952, in Hamburg-Ohlsdorf), his father Rudolf Hertz (* May 12, 1861, † March 3, 1933) and his uncle was Heinrich Hertz . His wife Feliza Margarita nee Vorwerk (* March 6, 1910, † June 2, 2001) was a great-granddaughter of Georg Friedrich Vorwerk .

Works

The Hamburg maritime trading company JC Godeffroy und Sohn 1766-1879 , Hartung, Hamburg, 1922, (publications of the Association for Hamburg History , Volume 4), DNB 570331633 (This is probably the slightly modified dissertation).

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .
• David Schidlowsky: Pablo Neruda and Germany. A brief biography of the Chilean poet and his relationship with Germany. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86573-391-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Hertz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Schidlowsky: Pablo Neruda and Germany. A brief biography of the Chilean poet and his relationship with Germany. Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Berlin, Berlin 2008, pages 22–23; David Schidlowsky: Neruda y su tiempo: Las furias y las penas. Ril Editores, Santiago de Chile 2008, Volume 1, pages 178-180.
2. ↑ Diario Oficial, March 1, 1961, [1]  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Los Angeles Times , (Condolences) June 15, 2001 ( online , accessed July 20, 2017)
4. ^ Gustav Adolph Vorwerk: Ein Hamburger Ambiente , private printing, Hamburg 1991, plate 5

predecessor	Office	successor
	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Seoul September 1957 to August 1960	Karl Bünger
Gebhardt von Walther	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Mexico 1960 to 1961	Kurt-Fritz von Graevenitz