Walter Hellenthal

Walter Hellenthal (born September 14, 1896 in Homburg , † December 11, 1969 in Murnau ) was a German diplomat .

Life

After attending high school in Kaiserslautern and Würzburg , he was in World War I moved in, made the war High School and was until March 1920 soldier and Lieutenant dR at the Universities of Berlin and Würzburg , he studied law and political science and a doctorate on November 23, 1922. Dr. jur. In 1923 Hellenthal joined the Foreign Service. In 1927 he was appointed legation secretary , in 1936 consul and was used at the embassies in Stockholm and Budapest and at the consulates general in Zurich , Sydney and Wellington . During his time as consul in Zurich, he joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 . From 1938 to 1943 he worked at the headquarters, did military service and became a captain. From 1939 he was first class councilor and representative at the OKW for Wehrmacht propaganda. On April 5, 1943, he took over the management of the consulate in Monaco with the title of Consul General . There he brought about the tightening of the residence regulations of the Jews with Louis II and thus also ensured the arrest and deportation of the German art historian August Liebmann Mayer . From November 1944, he looked after the Hungarian ruler Miklós Horthy, who had been deported to Germany, in Hirschberg Castle on the Haarsee near Weilheim in Upper Bavaria .

After the war he was interned in the United States until January 30, 1946 . Nothing is known about its denazification . Between 1947 and 1953 he was managing director of the Hamm Bar Association and in January 1953 he was accepted back into the diplomatic service of the Federal Republic. He was first consul in Osaka - Kobe and went to Lebanon in September 1957 , where he was appointed ambassador in 1958. After his retirement in 1960, an investigation was opened against him by the Munich public prosecutor in 1965 for his involvement in the National Socialist crimes in France. The proceedings were discontinued in 1969 with the death of Hellenthal.

Works

• Der Tennō , Munich: Isar-Verlag, 1956.
• Pedigree Wolfgang Walter Hellenthal, Claus Peter Hellenthal together with articles on the origin and history of the Hellenthal, Quirin, Tettenborn, Augstin , Görlitz: Starke, 1937.
• House and family theft, Würzburg, R.- u. state science Diss., 1922.

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .