Walter Weber (diplomat, 1899)

Walter Maria Weber (* 11. May 1899 in Bochum ; † 11. June 1979 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat in the era of National Socialism and the Federal Republic.

biography

Weber studied political science and economics after attending school and graduated in 1925 with the state examination as a business graduate . After receiving his doctorate in 1925, he entered the service of the Reich Labor Ministry , where he was a consultant in the position of a government councilor. In 1934 he was sent to the embassy in London as a social policy officer on special disposal . On August 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP .

In 1938 he then switched to the diplomatic service and initially worked until 1939 as an employee in the economic and consular department of the embassy in London. He then worked at the embassy in Oslo from 1939 to 1940 and, after interim activities in the Foreign Office, from 1940 to 1941 and from 1942 to 1943 at the embassy in Lisbon .

After the end of the Second World War , he initially worked at the German Office for Peace Issues in Stuttgart before he stayed in Sweden from 1949 to 1953 . On June 17, 1953, he was taken back into the diplomatic service and was initially head of Section 415 ( South America , Central America ) until 1954 . Subsequently, between 1954 and 1956 he was Head of Section 416 ( Middle East , Middle East , Africa ). In this function he was appointed lecturer of the Legation in November 1954 .

Afterwards Weber became envoy to Syria in October 1956 . With the incorporation of Syria into the United Arab Republic in February 1958, his activities in Damascus came to an end. After his official business had been settled, he returned to the Foreign Office in May 1958 and was appointed permanent representative of the head of the cultural department with the rank of lecturing councilor, 1st class.

Most recently, he was the successor to Walther Becker from May 1959 until his age-related retirement in 1964 as ambassador to Egypt . In this office he was followed by Georg Federer .

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 195 f.

Web links

• Biography in the Federal Archives
• Walter Weber in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)