Temistocles da Graça Aranha

Themístocles da Graça Aranha (born January 27, 1894 in Rio de Janeiro , † January 2, 1956 in The Hague ) was a Brazilian diplomat .

Life

Themístocles da Graça Aranha was the son of Maria Genoveva de Araújo and Graça Aranha . The father had a liberal phase until 1902, in which Élisée Reclus was part of the reading material for the son. Temístocles Graça Aranha married Adelaide Cardoso de Castilho, their daughter is Teresa Maria de Castilho Graça Aranha.

Aranha holds a Bachelor of Laws from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro . From 1916 he was transferred to Paris as an attaché , where he was appointed second class secretary in 1918. As such, he worked from 1920 to 1925 in Lisbon and from 1925 to 1928 in Bern , where he was appointed chargé d'affaires in 1927 , and from 1928 to 1931, also chargé d'affaires, in Stockholm . Subsequently, Aranha was appointed Secretary of the First Class and from 1931 to 1932 appointed Chargé d'affaires to Buenos Aires . In 1934 he was employed as the Brazilian chargé d'affaires in Helsinki and from October 1938 to August 26, 1939 in Berlin .

Graça Aranha learned about the November pogroms of 1938 from trading houses owned by Brazilian citizens who were Jews under the Law to Restore the Civil Service . He applied to the Reich Foreign Ministry for protection for his compatriots and sent a circular to the consulates in his jurisdiction to act analogously. A Brazilian merchant was attacked in Cologne , whereupon the responsible consul, Pericles Barbosa Lima, applied to the police chief for protection, which was the first time that a head of a Brazilian diplomatic mission intervened at the Foreign Office on behalf of Jews.

From 1940 to 1944 he headed the Department of Cooperação Intelectual do Itamaraty as second class envoy in the Departamento de Imprensa e Propaganda and was then employed as consul general in Cape Town until 1945 .

From June 24, 1948 to April 24, 1954, Aranha worked as envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire in Cairo , before he was finally appointed as ambassador to The Hague on May 18, 1954, where he died in 1956.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 1892 Casa-se com Maria Genoveva de Araújo , com quem tem dois filhos: Heloísa Graça Aranha e Temístocles da Graça Aranha
2. ↑ Milton Lopes, Élisée Reclus eo Brasil ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2014 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. , P. 2 
3. ^ Ed .: Maria Luiza Tucci Carneiro, O anti-semitismo nas Américas : memória e história, p. 408
4. ↑ Ed .: Maria Helena Martins, Fronteiras culturais : Brasil - Uruguai - Argentina, p. 202
5. ^ Who's Who in Latin America: Part VI, Brazil , p. 107
6. ^ Academia Brasileira de Letras , 1956, Revista da Academia Brasileira de Letras, Volume 91, p. 123

predecessor	Office	successor
Alfredo de Almeida Brandão	Brazilian Chargé d'Affaires in Bern in 1927	José Tomaz Nabuco de Gouvôa
Epaminondas Leite Chermont	Chargé d'affaires in Stockholm 1928	Epaminondas Leite Chermont
Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil	Chargé d'affaires in Buenos Aires 1931 to 1932	Joaquim Francisco de Assis Brasil
	Chargé d'Affaires in Helsinki 1934 to 1937	Argeu de Segadas Machado Guimarães
José Joaquim de Lima e Silva Moniz de Aragão	Chargé d'affaires in Berlin October 1938 to August 26, 1939	Ciro de Freitas Vale
Wagner Pimenta Bueno	Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Cairo June 24, 1948 to April 24, 1954	Carlos da Ponte Ribeiro Eiras
Antonio Carlos Diniz de Andrada	Ambassador to The Hague May 18, 1954 to January 2, 1956	Manoel Maria Fernandez Alcázar