Theodor Auer

Theodor M. Auer (born January 24, 1899 in Cologne , † September 23, 1972 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat .

Life

His father was Jakob Auer, a shareholder in Auroramühlen in Cologne. Theodor Auer took part in the First World War in 1918 . Auer studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau and Bonn and joined the Foreign Service in 1926 .

Auer was accredited to the Embassy of the German Reich in London in 1930 and to the Embassy of the German Reich in Paris in 1934. He joined the NSDAP with membership number 3,398,113 . From 1940 to 1942 he was Consul General of the German Reich in Casablanca in the French colony of Morocco . From 1943 to 1945 he was in Plötzensee prison in custody interned after the war until 1952 in the Soviet Union. From 1953 the Adenauer government put him back in the Foreign Service.

From 1956 Auer was the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ceylon. On November 8, 1963, the Erhard government signed a capital aid program with the Sirimavo Bandaranaike government in Ceylon. From February 7th to 14th, 1964 Bruno Leuschner , permanent representative of the GDR in the Executive Committee of the Comecon , visited Colombo and on February 14th, 1964 a consulate general of the German Democratic Republic was opened in Colombo. On February 25, 1964, the first consul general of the GDR, Ludwig Zempelburg , arrived in Colombo and before the end of the day a capital aid agreement for 200 million Sri Lankan rupees was signed, whereupon the Erhard government terminated its capital aid agreement and Ambassador Auer withdrew for reasons of age.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Udo Wengst, Hermann Wentker: Das doppelte Deutschland. 40 years of system competition. Ch. Links, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-86153-481-5 , p. 126 ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Georg Ahrens	German ambassador in Colombo 1956–1964	Herbert Schwörbel