Wilhelm Fabricius (diplomat, 1882)

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Fabricius (left) 1940 in Romania at the funeral of Corneliu Codreanu

Wilhelm August Julius Fabricius (born June 20, 1882 in Oppenheim ; died March 9, 1964 in Holz ( Bad Wiessee )) was a German diplomat during the National Socialist era .

Life

The son of the Hessian higher regional judge August Fabricius and Emilie, b. Trenca-Vulliemin attended grammar school in Mainz and studied law in Freiburg im Breisgau , Berlin and Gießen from 1902 to 1905 . During his studies he became a member of the Zaringia Freiburg Academic Association . Since 1906 he was in the Grand Ducal Hessian busy judicial and administrative service as an assessor and a doctorate in 1908 for Dr. jur.

Fabricius was appointed to the Foreign Service in April 1910 after studying language . His first positions were in Cairo (1912–1914) and Constantinople (1914–1918), after the end of the First World War he became Vice Consul in Zurich (1918–1920). He had been married to Martha Jenke since 1917 and had three children with her. From 1921 he was deployed in Saloniki and from 1925 and 1936 in Constantinople and Ankara . On April 23, 1936 he took over the business as envoy in Romania in Bucharest . On April 1, 1937, he joined the NSDAP . He was directly involved in the Second Vienna Arbitration Award on August 30, 1940, through which Hungary was able to partially restore the pre-war borders with Romania and incorporate northern Transylvania . He was recalled as envoy on December 13, 1940 without his prior knowledge. Although he led the embassy until January 24, 1941 and accompanied the Romanian Prime Minister Ion Antonescu to Germany on January 14, 1941, his successor, SA-Obergruppenführer Manfred von Killinger , was already living at the Berghof for the meeting between Adolf Hitler and Antonescu.

Until the end of the war he was responsible for four years in the Foreign Office in Berlin as envoy 1st class in the trade policy department for Southeast Europe.

At the Nuremberg trial of the main war criminals , he was named as a witness for the defense by Martin Horn , defender of Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop . But he was not summoned. He also played no role in the Wilhelmstrasse trial against his former State Secretary Ernst von Weizsäcker and seven other diplomats from the Foreign Office. Nothing is known about Fabricius' denazification .

Fonts

  • Are commercial mortgage and security mortgage under the Civil Code "accessory rights"? , Darmstadt: G. Otto, 1908. Gießen, (Jur. Fac., Ref. Biermann, Diss. Of May 27, 1908.)

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1
  • Andreas Hillgruber : Hitler, King Carol and Marshal Antonescu: German-Romanian Relations, 1938–1944 , Wiesbaden 1965 (dissertation 1954)

Web links

Commons : Wilhelm Fabricius  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Black Ring. Membership directory. Darmstadt 1930, p. 63.
  2. ^ Andreas Hillgruber: Hitler, King Carol and Marschall Antonescu , Wiesbaden 1965, p. 118
personal data
SURNAME Fabricius, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fabricius, Wilhelm August Julius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH Oppenheim
DATE OF DEATH March 9, 1964
Place of death Wood ( Bad Wiessee )