Siegfried Hey

Siegfried Hey (born August 14, 1875 in Munich , † November 20, 1963 in Gauting ) was a German diplomat .

Family, education and military career

Hey was born the son of music professor Julius Hey and his wife Karoline Benfey. His older brother was the painter Paul Hey , his younger brother Hans Erwin Hey worked as a singing teacher in Charlottenburg, Ankara and Vienna. In 1911 Hey married the daughter of a Russian landowner, Julia Sajewitsch, with whom he had a daughter. He received his education at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich and at the Falk Realgymnasium in Berlin . In March 1894 he entered military service and initially reached the rank of captain . In 1909 he retired from the army and was a representative of the Wolff Telegraphic Bureau in Saint Petersburg until 1914 . After re-entering the military, Hey was promoted to major and worked in the Prussian War Ministry as an agent for the Caucasus until 1918 .

Career as a diplomat

Hey joined the foreign service in December 1919 and was initially employed in the departments for Russia and Eastern Europe at the Foreign Office . In 1922 he was sent to Kharkiv as consul general . From 1924 Hey worked at the embassy in Moscow before he took over the management of the embassy in Tirana in 1929 . A year later, the embassy was converted into a consulate for cost reasons and Hey was given early retirement, although he was retained as acting head of the consulate. In 1931 he returned to the Foreign Office, where he headed the Eastern Europe and Scandinavia subdivision until 1935. Due to the First Ordinance on the Reich Citizenship Act of November 14, 1935, Hey, whose mother came from a Jewish family, was initially forced into retirement and was finally dismissed from the diplomatic service in April 1937. In 1952, because of his unjustified retirement, he was subsequently appointed ambassador first class a. D. appointed.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hey, Hans Erwin. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1959, p. 310.
2. ^ Matthias Dornfeldt, Enrico Seewald: The German diplomatic missions in Albania from 1913 to 1944 . In: Journal of Balkanology . tape 45 (2009) , no. 1 . Harrassowitz, ISSN  0044-2356 , OCLC 460261692 , ZDB -ID 201058-6 , p. 19 ( zeitschrift-fuer-balkanologie.de [accessed on June 11, 2013]).
3. ^ The office and the past: German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . 2nd Edition. Pantheon, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 102 ( google.de [accessed June 11, 2013]).

literature

• Foreign Office, Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service from 1871 to 1945, Volume 2: G K . edited by Gerhard Keiper and Martin Kröger. Ferdinand Schöningh, Paderborn a. a. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X , pp. 475-476 .

Web links

• Biography at the Federal Archives

predecessor	Office	successor
Radolf von Kardorff	Ambassador of the German Reich in Tirana 1929–1930	Erich von Luckwald