Walter de Haas (diplomat)

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Walter de Haas (born September 10, 1864 in Elberfeld , † November 28, 1931 in Berlin ) was a diplomat of the German Reich .

Life

In 1896 his son Heinrich de Haas was born in Manly . Until the First World War, Walter de Haas was accredited as an economic attaché at the Consulate General of the German Reich in Sydney .

In 1920 he was secret legation councilor in the Foreign Office on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin . In 1924 de Haas took over as ministerial director from Carl von Schubert, head of Department III in the Foreign Office, which dealt with the British Empire , America and the Orient. De Haas was retired on September 30, 1930.

Individual evidence

  1. Jürgen Tampke: The Germans in Australia , Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006, p 125th