Wilhelm Mackeben

Wilhelm Mackeben (born December 30, 1892 in Minden , † November 16, 1956 in Hamburg ) was a German diplomat in the Weimar Republic and during the time of National Socialism and ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Wilhelm Mackeben's father was frequently transferred as director of a garrison administration of the Prussian army , for example to Prussisch Stargard , where his younger brother Theo Mackeben was born in 1897 . He attended high schools in Deutsch-Eylau , Danzig and Koblenz . He completed his law studies from 1911 in Berlin and Münster . In 1912 he became a member of the Corps Marchia Berlin . From 1914 to 1918 he was a soldier in the First World War , was drafted into the Foreign Service of the Weimar Republic in 1919 and was deployed in German-Polish matters, even after serving as a legation councilor in Guatemala between 1932 and 1934. From 1936 he was the political department of the Foreign Office (AA). From the beginning of the war in 1939 he was legation councilor to the ambassador z. b. V. Karl Ritter , who was entrusted with the management of all tasks related to the economic war in the Foreign Office. Ritter was sentenced to four years imprisonment in the Wilhelmstrasse trial in 1947 . Mackeben had been banned from any promotion since 1934 and was put into temporary retirement in early 1943 under the title of Consul General.

No information is available about Mackeben's internment after the end of World War II ; Mackeben was interrogated as part of the Nuremberg Trials . He was active in industry and in his own trading company when he was able to return to the newly created Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1951 and was posted to Lima in November 1951 . In Peru he was ambassador and from 1953 to 1955 ambassador.

literature

Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 , p. 157f

Web links

Wilhelm Mackeben (PDF; 446 kB), survey by Robert W. Kempner on December 12, 1947, at the Institute for Contemporary History

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener corps lists 1930, 5 , 567
↑ The template for SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Lorenz : “German Minority Policy towards Poland” by Martin Schliep , head of department, bears Mackebens' paraphor. Foreign Office / Political Archive and Historical Unit: files on German foreign policy. 1918-1945. From the archive of the Foreign Office . Göttingen u. a. 1950–1995, here: Series D. Volume V, Document 51, pp. 59–63.

personal data
SURNAME	Mackeben, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH	Minden
DATE OF DEATH	November 16, 1956
Place of death	Hamburg

[1] Kösener corps lists 1930, 5 , 567

[2] The template for SS-Obergruppenführer Werner Lorenz : “German Minority Policy towards Poland” by Martin Schliep , head of department, bears Mackebens' paraphor. Foreign Office / Political Archive and Historical Unit: files on German foreign policy. 1918-1945. From the archive of the Foreign Office . Göttingen u. a. 1950–1995, here: Series D. Volume V, Document 51, pp. 59–63.