Werner Peiser

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Louis Werner Peiser (born August 20, 1895 in Berlin ; † June 27, 1991 in Genoa ) was a German diplomat .

biography

Studies, Weimar Republic and Third Reich

Peiser was the son of the accountant Gustav Peiser and his wife Ida, née Löbenstein. After attending school, he was in 1914 a member of the SPD and completed 1914-1918 Law and Economics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin and graduated in 1919 with the promotion of Dr. iur. at the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald with a dissertation on the topic “Concept and nature of territorial sovereignty ”. After graduating he became in 1919 a journalist at the SPD party newspaper forward and was immediately responsible editor for the political part.

In addition, he studied Romance Philology at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität from 1918 to 1921 and subsequently entered the civil service of Prussia in 1921 .

In April 1921 Peiser became an employee in the Prussian State Ministry . In 1923 he was first a member of the government and was most recently deputy to press chief Hans Goslar as senior government member . In February 1931 he was dismissed from this position and was then until his dismissal from civil service because of his Jewish origin in 1933 as a ministerial advisor in the Prussian Ministry of Education for special tasks and Prussian cultural advisor at the German Historical Institute in Rome . In February 1931 he resigned from the SPD as deputy press chief in protest because of his dismissal. Later on, his doctorate was also revoked due to Section 33 of the Criminal Code, which was in force in the Third Reich .

After the seizure of power , he stayed in Italy and worked there until 1938, among other things, as a professor of political science in Rome . 1933 founded Peiser along with Moritz Goldstein in Florence the Landschulheim Florence , a school for Jewish and non-Jewish refugee children. The school opened on October 17, 1933 and was run by Peiser and others together with Robert Kempner , whom he already knew from his time in Berlin, until it was closed in 1938. Before the final closure, Peiser and Kempner were able to travel to Nice with some of the pupils and continue school operations there for a short time. From here he emigrated to the USA in 1939 . From 1939 to 1944 he was professor of Romance languages at the University of Pennsylvania , Loyola University in New Orleans and, most recently, until 1946 at the University of Maryland .

Post-war period and diplomat of the Federal Republic

In 1946 he returned to Europe and was initially employed by the US administration until 1948. In this function he also dealt with questions of reparation on behalf of the Joint Distribution Committee . He then worked as a scientist in his fields of study .

On June 1, 1951, Peiser was appointed to the diplomatic service of the Foreign Office and advisor for culture at the embassy in Brazil . After that he was cultural advisor at the embassy in Spain for a few months. Later, his appointment was held for the Embassy held the first class.

Envoy to Nicaragua from November 1958 until his retirement in 1960 . His successor there was Hans Wolf Jaeschke .

After his retirement, he initially worked as an unpaid employee at the Goethe Institute in Genoa and founded the Palermo Cultural Institute , of which he was director from 1961 to 1966. He was then head of the Goethe Institute in Genoa between 1966 and 1969.

After the theologian and philosopher Hubertus Mynarek left the Catholic Church because of his criticism of celibacy in an open letter to Pope Paul VI. In 1972 Peiser was one of the few supporters of the forced retired church critic, along with Ferdinand Klostermann and Ossip K. Flechtheim .

In 2000 he was posthumously awarded his doctorate by the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald.

In 2008 his life story was part of the documentation and exhibition “A certain Jewish something” in the Jewish Museum in Munich .

Fonts

Peiser was also active as an author of specialist books and scientific articles. His publications included:

literature

  • Matthias Lau: Press policy as an opportunity. State public relations in the countries of the Weimar Republic. Franz Steiner Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-515-08071-6 ( digitized version )
  • Irmtraud Ubbens: The country school home in Florence In: Childhood and youth in exile - A generation theme (= exile research. An international yearbook , volume 24, p. 117ff). edition text + kritik, Munich, 2006, ISBN 3-88377-844-3 .
  • Robert MW Kempner: Accuser of an Era: Memories . Ullstein, Frankfurt / M; Berlin 1986, ISBN 3-548-33076-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Birth register of the registry office Berlin VI No. 413/1895.
  2. ^ Robert MW Kempner: Prosecutor of an Era , p. 137ff
  3. ↑ Irmtraud Ubbens: Das Landschulheim in Florenz , p. 118
  4. ↑ Irmtraud Ubbens: Das Landschulheim in Florenz , p. 125
  5. ^ Constantin Goschler: reparation. Oldenbourg, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-486-55901-X , pp. 170, 174 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Minutes of the meeting of the Federal Cabinet on December 3, 1958
  7. ^ Church and Criticism I: The Mynarek Case
  8. ^ Rehabilitated: University of Greifswald posthumously returns academic and honorary degrees withdrawn by the Nazi regime
  9. ↑ ( Page no longer available , search in web archives: A certain Jewish something ) (Jewish Museum Munich; PDF; 1.7 MB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.juedisches-museum-muenchen.de
personal data
SURNAME Peiser, Werner
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Peiser, Louis Werner (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1991
Place of death Genoa