Walter Zimmermann (diplomat)

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Walter Wilhelm Hans Zimmermann (born August 14, 1896 in Hanover ; † July 28, 1973 in Kiel ) was a German diplomat who was last ambassador to Peru between 1958 and 1961 .

Life

Zimmermann did his military service after attending school during the First World War . He then began to study law , history , economics and philosophy at the University of Leipzig . In 1919 he was reciprocated in the Corps Saxonia Leipzig . When he was inactive , he went to the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , the University of Oxford and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin . From 1920 to 1925 he was involved in student self-administration . Most recently, he headed the International Office of the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität and published the magazine Hochschule und Ausland . From 1919 to 1929 he was in the German People's Party .

After his doctorate as Dr. phil. Zimmermann entered the diplomatic service in 1925 and, after being employed as a research assistant in the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin, was legation counselor at the embassy in France between 1930 and 1933 and then from 1933 to 1936 at the consulate general in Marseille . On March 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . After being employed at the Consulate General in São Paulo between 1936 and 1939 and at the Consulate in Curitiba from 1939 to 1942, he returned to the headquarters of the Foreign Office between 1942 and 1945.

After the end of the Second World War , Zimmermann was employed from 1946 to 1948 as the syndic of the student union at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel and at the same time worked for various daily newspapers . Afterwards he was a lecturer and head of the foreign trade department of the Institute for Trade Research (IfH) at the University of Cologne between 1949 and 1950 .

After a one-year activity in the Federal Chancellery , Zimmermann returned to the Foreign Office in Bonn in 1951 and between 1950 and 1953 was deputy head of the training facility for foreign service candidates in Speyer, which was still subordinate to the Federal Chancellery . At the same time, after being promoted to lecturing councilor in personal union from 1952 to 1953, he was head of Section I Pers B of the Foreign Office, which was responsible for the applications and personal details of members of the economic service. In 1953 he succeeded Carl Stein as Consul General in Zurich and remained in this post until 1958, after which he was replaced by Kurt-Fritz von Graevenitz .

Zimmermann last succeeded Josef Fischer as ambassador to Peru in 1959 . He held this position until he retired in 1961 and was then replaced by Heinrich Northe .

Publications

  • The Leipzig International Student Conference , Göttingen 1922.
  • Goals and paths of student work abroad , Charlottenburg 1924.
  • Handbook for University Studies in Germany , editor, 16 volumes, Charlottenburg 1926–1929.
  • The English press on the outbreak of the World War , Charlottenburg 1928.

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. 379f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 30 , 770
  2. ^ Announcement on the prospective appointment of a foreign mission, AA. 300th cabinet meeting on July 7, 1953 (Federal Archives)
  3. ^ Occupation of a German diplomatic mission abroad. 71st cabinet meeting on June 24, 1959 (Federal Archives)
  4. ^ Occupation of two German missions abroad. 73rd cabinet meeting on July 15, 1959 (Federal Archives)
personal data
SURNAME Zimmermann, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zimmermann, Walter Wilhelm Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH July 28, 1973
Place of death Kiel