Wilhelm von Pochhammer (diplomat)

Wilhelm von Pochhammer (born January 27, 1892 in Berlin , † November 13, 1982 in Bremen ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Wilhelm von Pochhammer was the son of Major General Erich von Pochhammer and his wife Hanna geb. Toeche mediator. After attending secondary schools in Berlin and Stettin , he studied law at the University of Freiburg as well as in Paris, Marburg and Bonn. In 1914 he passed the trainee exam and worked as a government trainee in Hanover .

From 1919 Pochhammer worked in the foreign service. He was the private secretary of Foreign Minister Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau . From 1922 he was acting head of the German diplomatic mission in the Soviet Union in Kharkov . In 1925 he worked at the Consulate General in Calcutta . In 1926 he was 1st Secretary of the German Embassy in Tokyo. There he married Henny Koehne in the same year, with whom he had two children.

In 1928 Pochhammer worked in Colombo as consul for South India and Ceylon . In 1934 he became a delegation counselor in Bucharest. In the same year he joined the NSDAP . As a counselor he worked in 1938 in Santiago de Chile and from 1942 to 1945 in Buenos Aires . After the end of World War II, he was a British prisoner of war for two years. From 1947 he worked for the Federal Office for Emigration in Bremen, later in Koblenz, and went to South America in 1951. Most recently he was Consul General in Bombay from 1953 to 1957 .

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 , pp. 496-498

Web links

• Biography in the Federal Archives
• Literature by and about Wilhelm von Pochhammer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pochhammer, Wilhelm von In: Herrmann AL Degener, Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who ?: the German Who's Who. Arani, Berlin 1955.