Werner von Bargen

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Werner von Bargen (born February 14, 1898 in Wischhafen , † November 22, 1975 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Werner von Bargen was a soldier in World War I and a lieutenant in the 4th Guards Regiment at the end of the war . He then studied law at the Georg August University . In 1919 he was reciprocated in the Corps Hercynia Göttingen . When he was inactive , he moved to the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel in 1921 . In 1923 he was promoted to Dr. iur. PhD. He passed the assessor examination in 1924 and joined the Foreign Service in 1925 . In 1933 he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 2,579,492). From 1937 von Bargen served as Counselor in the Brussels Embassy of the Foreign Office . From 1940 to 1943 he was a representative of the Foreign Office in the military administration in Belgium and northern France , initially with the rank of Legation Council and later as envoy . In Belgium he had "done years of lobbying the various fascist movements to identify and instrumentalize those willing to collaborate". He was involved in the deportations of 10,000 Jews from Belgium and, in a report to the Foreign Office of November 11, 1942, stated unmoved: “Since, however, in the course of time, rumors of the slaughter of Jews etc. no longer obeyed the labor deployment order , the Jews were caught by raids and individual actions. ”In July 1943 he became head of the Politics II Department Western Europe in the Foreign Office, as well as in the Foreign Armies East department . In 1944 he was still employed at the German embassy in France and headed its branch in Gérardmer .

In autumn 1947 the denazification proceedings in favor of Werner von Bargens took place in Stade as “exonerated” in so far as “astonishing”, as “not a word was said that Bargen was involved in the deportation of the Belgian Jews.” The 47th investigative committee of the 1st German The Bundestag spoke out against Werner von Bargen, Herbert Dittmann and Werner von Grundherr zu Altenthann and Weiherhaus in its decision submitted on June 18, 1952 to review 21 members of the Foreign Service against further use in the Foreign Service. The Foreign Office responded with a leave of absence from Bargens until October 1954. After the Federal Disciplinary Attorney had recognized exonerating statements by third parties for von Bargen, he was appointed deputy head of the trade policy department in 1954 and rose to the position of ministerial director in the Foreign Office in 1958 . At the beginning of April 1957 he accompanied Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano on a state visit to Jawaharlal Nehru in India . From 1960 to 1963 he was ambassador to Iraq and at the end of his career was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was married to Gertraude born in 1927. Helmolt. From this marriage there were three children.

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  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 72/171.
  2. ↑ Dissertation: Is the inheritance claim an overall claim?
  3. ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich . Frankfurt am Main 2007, p. 27.
  4. ↑ Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann: The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Munich 2010, p. 242
  5. ↑ Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes and Moshe Zimmermann: The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Munich 2010, p. 243. See also his report to Berlin v. March 26, 1943: As I have already reported several times, the registration of the labor force in the Belgian population meets with general resistance. Young Belgians tried with all their tricks to evade the "imperial mission". Some obtained medical certificates issued by understanding doctors, others tried to obtain certificates from their employers that attested that they were irreplaceable. Bargen also mentions a pastoral letter from Cardinal Archbishop of Mechelen Jozef-Ernest Van Roey dated March 21, 1943, in which he “resolutely” rejected the recruitment of Belgians for “imperial deployment” and condemned any involvement in the deportations as an act that did so To weigh heavily on the conscience of a devout Catholic. Referred to by Stichting Holländerei Ed .: Dutch and Flemings in Berlin, Berlin 1996, pp. 136, 143.
  6. ↑ Pullach internally . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1971 ( online - The history of the Federal Intelligence Service).
  7. ↑ Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes and Moshe Zimmermann: The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Munich 2010, p. 347.
  8. ↑ Bundestag Annexes Volume 18 Printed matter 3465, according to Rainer Achim Blasius, Martin Koopmann, Joachim Wintzer, files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1952: 1
  9. ↑ Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945 (PDF)
  10. ↑ Nehru's new trick . In: Der Spiegel . No. 13 , 1957 ( online ).
  11. ^ Hans-Jürgen Döscher: rope teams. The Foreign Office's suppressed past . Berlin 2005, p. 291. Furthermore, Klee: Personenlexikon , p. 27.
predecessor Office successor
Vicco von Bülow-Schwante German ambassador in Brussels
1940–1944 		Anton Pfeiffer
Herbert Richter (diplomat) German ambassador to Baghdad
1960–1963 		Heinz Voigt
personal data
SURNAME Bargen, Werner von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Wischhafen
DATE OF DEATH November 22, 1975
Place of death Bonn