Werner Charles Rudolph Aue

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Werner Charles Rudolph Aue (born June 8, 1891 in London , † September 6, 1977 there ) was a British diplomat .

Life and activity

Aue took part in the First World War with the Royal Highlanders and later with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers .

On June 30, 1926, Aue was appointed British Vice Consul in Hanover . In 1935, Aue was at the center of a diplomatic incident: As the military defense established that Aue had reported on the construction of barracks and an airport in its area of ​​responsibility, the Foreign Office in Berlin charged Aue with espionage and with those of him collected news about military events in Germany, to have exceeded the remit of a consular officer. As a result, the vice consulate in Hanover was closed and Aue was expelled from the country as persona non grata .

On October 8, 1935, Aue was transferred to Antwerp as Vice Consul . In 1937 he was raised there to the rank of acting Consul-General. After the German occupation of Belgium in the spring of 1940, Aue fled to Great Britain. Since December 21, 1942 he was employed there in the Foreign Office in London.

Aue was classified as an enemy of the state by the National Socialist police forces : In the spring of 1940 the Reich Main Security Office placed him on the special wanted list GB , a list of people who, in the event of a successful invasion and occupation of the British island by the Wehrmacht, would be assigned to subsequent SS special commands by the occupying forces the country should move in, should be located and arrested as a priority.

On January 17, 1945, Aue returned to his old post in Antwerp. On March 18, 1947, he moved to Brussels as consul and first secretary .

In 1952 he received the Order of the British Empire

family

Aue had been married to Editha Konstanze Marie Götze since 1921, with whom he had two daughters.

literature

  • The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book , 1949, p. 162.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Matthias Jaroch: Too uch Wit and not enough Warning ?: Sir Eric Phipps as British ambassador in Berlin from 1933 to 1937 , 1999, p. 62.
  2. ^ Entry on Aue on the special wanted list GB (reproduced on the website of the Imperial War Museum in London) .
personal data
SURNAME Aue, Werner Charles Rudolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1977
Place of death London