Richard Staudt

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Richard Wilhelm Albrecht Staudt ( Spanish : Ricardo W. Staudt , * 6. March 1888 in Berlin , † 8. May 1955 in Buenos Aires ) was a German-Argentine entrepreneur who is also known as an art collector and genealogist operated and the Nazi movement in Argentina belonged .

Life

His father Wilhelm Staudt from Hellenthal (1852–1906) had lived in Buenos Aires since 1877, where he achieved considerable wealth as an entrepreneur in the leather, wool and fabrics trade and had married Elisabeth Albrecht (1858–1948) in Berlin in 1885. Staudt & Co. , founded in 1887, had branches in Buenos Aires and Berlin. Staudt's father represented the Republic of Uruguay as consul in Berlin. After Wilhelm Staudt died in 1906, the widow took over the company with a few partners and was very successful and often hostess of Wilhelm II in the Villa Staudt in Heringsdorf . In Berlin, the family owned a palace on Tiergartenstrasse . After 1921 Richard Wilhelm Staudt, who had fought in the First World War in a cavalry regiment, took over the management of the company and acted as German consul general in Buenos Aires.

Compañía Argentina de Comercio

At the beginning of the 20th century, Staudt & Co, together with Friedrich Krupp AG and Siemens-Schuckertwerke, founded the Compañía Argentina de Comercio (Coarico) in Buenos Aires , an arms import company that met the need for German arms resulting from the Argentine-German military cooperation satisfied.

From 1932 to 1938 Richard Staudt was Austrian consul in Buenos Aires. In 1936 the Staudt family donated the property in Tiergartenstrasse to the Republic of Argentina, on which the Argentine Embassy stood from 1900 to 1945 in Berlin-Tiergarten . By 1939 Ricardo Staudt was the financially strongest German-speaking entrepreneur in Argentina. Other financially strong German-speaking entrepreneurs in Argentina at this time were Fritz Mandl and Ludwig Freude .

Richard Staudt was Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Siemens-Schuckertwerke until 1941 . Richard Staudt distanced himself from the NSDAP in the course of the Second World War .

In order to comply with the agreements of Chapultepeque and the Inter-American Defense Board , the government of Edelmiro Julián Farrell set up a supervisory body in mid-1945 whose decreed purpose was to prosecute NSDAP agents and liquidate companies from the assets of the Axis powers . The general secretary of this supervisory body , Dr. Carlos A. Adrogue resigned on the grounds that Foreign Secretary Juan Isaac Cooke (1895–1957) and other high-ranking officials had tried to prevent the Nazis from being driven out. Adrogue said Cooke had the oversight committee prevented the companies of the Nazi agents Ricardo Staudt with an estimated value of 24 million USD to liquidate. The daily La Vanguardia in Buenos Aires asked whether this preference on the part of Cooke was due to the fact that Staudt was the main financier of the election campaign of Juan Perón ?

Ricardo Staudt died as a result of a traffic accident when he was hit by a motor vehicle whose driver was fleeing the accident .

In 1923 Richard Staudt's son Guillermo (died March 15, 2000) was born in Buenos Aires. Together with Horst Carlos Fuldner, he was involved in Juan Perón's rat lines in Italy.

Fonts (selection)

  • Hermann Friedrich Macco (arr.); Ricardo Wilhelm Staudt (ed. And translator): The Church Visitations of the Deanery of Kusel in the Palatinate 1609 , Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1930

literature

  • Guillermo Staudt: For tea with the emperor in Heringsdorf: The story of the Staudt family between 1859 and 1918 , Neuendorf Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-931897-21-4 , ISBN 978-3-931897-21-5 .
  • Karl Fix: A heavy loss for the West German family research in: German gender book . Volume 123. Eifeler gender book. Second volume , CA Starke, Glücksburg 1958, pp. XII – XV (obituary incl. Illus.)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Karl Fix: A heavy loss for the West German family research in: German gender book . Volume 123. Eifeler gender book. Second volume , CA Starke, Glücksburg 1958, pp. XII – XV, here p. XII.
  2. ^ Lothar Gall, Die Deutsche Bank, 1870-1995 , p. 126
  3. ↑ La Nación , 25 de March 2000, Guillermo Staudt
  4. ^ Richard L. McGaha, The Politics of Espionage: Nazi Diplomats and Spies in Argentina, 1933-1945 , November 2009, 414 pp.
  5. ↑ Time , Dec. 17, 1945, ARGENTINA: The Coddled
  6. ↑ La Nación , 16 de febrero de 1997, La rama nazi de Perón
personal data
SURNAME Staudt, Richard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Staudt, Richard Wilhelm Albrecht (full name); Staudt, Ricardo W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Argentine entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1955
Place of death Buenos Aires