Werner Gregor

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Werner EH Gregor (born December 4, 1896 in Görlitz , † June 3, 1971 in Munich ) was a German diplomat .

biography

The son of the actor , director and theater manager Hans Gregor studied political science at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin and the University of Rostock . After graduating as Dr. rer. pole. He entered the diplomatic service in 1925 and was initially employed at the embassy in the Netherlands from 1925 to 1931. He then moved to the Consulate General in Pretoria before he worked at the embassy in Poland between 1934 and 1936 . On July 1, 1936, he joined the NSDAP . In 1937 he was appointed consul in Glasgow . After working at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Berlin from 1939 to 1943, he was appointed Consul General in Toulouse and then worked again at the Reich Foreign Ministry in Berlin between 1944 and 1945.

After the Second World War he was interned in Britain until March 20, 1947 , after which he worked for the authorities of the occupying powers in Germany, where he dealt in the field of culture, in particular with questions of artist exchanges. Subsequently, between 1949 and 1952, he was the agent and general agent of a Chilean finance and trading company in Germany. Nothing is known about its denazification .

In 1952 he returned to the Foreign Service and was appointed the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Bolivia , where he was appointed ambassador in 1954 . In 1955 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University Mayor de San Andrés of La Paz and the Grand Cross of the Condor Order of Bolivia.

After his replacement at this post by Paulus von Stolzmann , he was also the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Tunisia from 1956 to 1960 . In 1960 he was retired . In 1964 he was briefly recalled to the Foreign Office as part of a special assignment to prepare for participation in the 1st World Trade Conference in Geneva from March 23 to June 16, 1964.

According to the evaluation of personnel files at the Foreign Office, Gregor was part of the DDP before 1933 and of the SPD after 1945 .

Footnotes

  1. ↑ See the entry of Werner Gregor's matriculation in the Rostock matriculation portal

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 .

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personal data
SURNAME Gregor, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gregor, Werner EH
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 4th December 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH 3rd June 1971
Place of death Munich