Rudolf Asmis

Rudolf Asmis

Rudolf Albert August Wilhelm Asmis (born June 12, 1879 in Mesekenhagen , Pomerania , † November 13, 1945 in Soviet custody) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Life

During his studies he became a member of the Gotia Greifswald singing association (in the special houses association ). Asmis was a trainee lawyer from 1900 and four years later a Prussian court assessor . In April 1906 he found a job as an assessor in the colonial department of the Foreign Office , which in August sent him to Cameroon for three months , where he worked as a special judge. After his return in 1907 he was commissioned to document tribal rights in the German colony of Togo . Here he was appointed district administrator in 1911 . In 1912 he switched to the consular service and became consul in the Belgian Congo in Boma and also for French Equatorial Africa except Gabon . When the war began, Asmis returned to Germany. During the First World War he worked for the German occupation administration in the General Government of Belgium in Brussels . After the end of the war he was a lecturer in the Reich Ministry of the Interior , from 1922 as the German embassy counselor in Chita ( Far Eastern Republic ), then in Moscow . In 1924 he was counselor in Beijing for a year , then envoy in Bangkok until 1932 , after which he was appointed consul general 1st class in Sydney . He wrote several books about his experiences abroad. From January 1929 to April 1932 he was a member of the German People's Party . After the ban on membership of the NSDAP was lifted , Asmis became a member of the NSDAP on April 1, 1938 .

During the Second World War , Asmis re-entered the diplomatic service. At the same time he was head of the Berlin office of the colonial policy office of the NSDAP . After the office was dissolved, Asmis became head of Section Pol.X of the Foreign Office in 1944, which was responsible for Africa, Australia and New Zealand as well as mandate and colonial questions. At the same time he was Reich Commissioner for the colonial societies.

His younger brother was Walter Asmis .

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 .
• Pedigree of Rudolf and Herbert Asmis (* 1925/28). German pedigree 2 (Leipzig 1937)
• Bettina Brockmeyer: The colonial official Rudolf Asmis , in: Rebekka Habermas and Alexandra Przyrembel (eds.), From beetles, markets and people. Colonialism and Knowledge in Modernity , Göttingen 2013, pp. 84–96. ISBN 978-3-525-30019-0
• Bettina Brockmeyer: From "Colonial Pig" to Consul - Career Paths of a German Colonial Official , in: Tim Buchen, Malte Rolf (ed.), Elites in the Multi-Ethnic Empire - Imperial Biographies in Russia and Austria-Hungary (1850-1918) , series: Elitenwandel in der Moderne 17, Berlin a. a. 2015, pp. 107-131. ISBN 978-3-110-41602-2 .

Works

• 1920 The Belgian Congo after the World War , KF Koehler
• 1924 As an economic pioneer in Russian Asia , G. Stilke
• 1941 experiences from my colonial wandering years , mediator
• 1942 Kalamba na m'putu , mediator
• 1942 The end of a paradise , Reinshagen

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the date of death at the AA. According to other information "lost": negotiations of the Society for Geography 2001
2. ^ Association of Alter SVer (VASV): Address book. Membership directory of all old men. As of October 1, 1937. Hanover 1937, p. 84.
3. ↑ Colonization of Law at Staatswissenschaft.com ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ↑ Description of the office on bundesarchiv.de  ( 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.  

Web links

• Literature by and about Rudolf Asmis in the catalog of the German National Library
• Rudolf Asmis in the files of the Reich Chancellery