Wilhelm Stoller
Wilhelm Stoller (born April 8, 1884 in Amstetten (Württemberg) ; † November 4, 1970 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German diplomat , envoy and consul general in Hanoi, Bangkok, Shanghai, Tietsin, Nanking and Basel.
His brother was the geologist Jakob Stoller (1873–1930).
Live and act
Wilhelm Stoller came from a humble background. He was born on April 8, 1884 as the last of eight children of the tailor and church clerk Friedrich Stoller and his wife Margarete, née. Miller in the Swabian Alb community of Amstetten (Württemberg) . One of his ancestors was the farmer Oswald Stoller († 1740), who immigrated to Amstetten from Grindelwald / Switzerland.
His talent was shown early on, especially for languages. After graduating from high school in Ulm in 1902 , he began studying law and economics at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin. In autumn 1907 he passed the first state examination in law in Tübingen. He made the decision to serve the German Embassy in China. He passed his diploma in Chinese in 1908. In January 1910 he traveled with the Trans-Siberian Railway via Russia, Siberia and Manchuria to China, where he worked as an interpreter in various cities until 1917. When he returned to Germany, he did military service until the end of the First World War . In 1920 he returned to the Foreign Office. From 1922 to 1928 he was appointed Vice Consul in the Consulate General in Shanghai .
As consul he headed the consulate in Hanoi from 1928 to 1936. He was also head of the legation in Bangkok from 1934 to 1936. In 1936 he was appointed Consul General, where he headed the Consulate General in Tientsin until 1941. On a provisional basis, until the end of the German Reich in May 1945, he headed the embassy in Shanghai. In 1947 he returned to Germany as a prisoner and was sent to the Dachau internment camp . Then Stoller moved to Ludwigsburg.
In the difficult post-war years, he was appointed to set up and head the Consulate General in Basel in 1951, at the age of 67. In 1952 Stoller went into well-deserved retirement and spent his old age together with his wife Meta, née. Lemke, until his death on November 4, 1970 in Ludwigsburg. His wife died shortly after him at the age of 85 in Winnenden.
Wilhelm Stoller never lost his Swabian idiosyncrasy.
literature
- Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 4: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: S Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3
Web links
- Wilhelm Stoller in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stoller, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat, envoy and consul general |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 8, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amstetten |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th November 1970 |
| Place of death | Ludwigsburg |