Werner Kiewitz

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Werner Kiewitz (born August 9, 1891 in Breslau ; † January 1, 1965 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German diplomat.

Life

The son of a fortress construction officer attended the humanistic high school in Waldenburg in Silesia and then went to the Kassel War School , where he was trained as an officer. As such, he was active from 1910 to 1920 and took part in the First World War. Then he commanded a volunteer corps.

From 1921 to 1923 he participated in the definition of the German-Polish border and the demarcation of the border in Upper Silesia. Then he was taken over in the foreign service of the Reich under the Stresemann government. He passed the state examination in 1924 and from then on worked as a diplomat. For example, in 1929 he was envoy to Belgrade .

From December 1934 he worked as a ministerial advisor under Otto Meissner and Heinrich Doehle in the presidential chancellery of Adolf Hitler .

During the Second World War he was the imprisoned Belgian King Leopold III. assigned as escort officer. As such, he was demoted from colonel to captain and transferred to the Dirlewanger SS special unit because, from the National Socialists' point of view, he was too devoted to the king and had given him too much freedom.

He was taken prisoner by the Soviets, from which he was released in March 1946.

After 1949 Kiewitz worked in the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany. From 1956 to 1959 Werner Kiewitz was head of the Order's Chancellery in the Office of the Federal President.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook for the German Reich, Berlin 1936, p. 5.
  2. ^ Matthias Molt: From the Wehrmacht to the Bundeswehr, Heidelberg 2007, p. 112.
  3. ^ Died: Werner Kiewitz . In: Der Spiegel . No. 3 , 1965 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Kiewitz, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1965
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau