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Willy Unverfierter (born November 8, 1895 in Berlin ; † May 9, 1968 in Bonn ) was a German consular and ministerial official .

Life

Untroubled parents were the postal director Bernhard Unverfetern and his wife Bertha nee. Lardon . He attended the Ratsgymnasium Osnabrück and the Mariengymnasium Jever , where he graduated from high school at Easter 1913. He studied law and political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , the Friedrichs-Universität Halle and the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg . From August 3, 1914, he took part in the entire First World War. By introducing the interim semester , he was still able to register as a lieutenant for the trainee exam. He passed it on November 13, 1919 and was discharged from the Prussian Army on December 31, 1919 . On March 29, 1920 he received his doctorate as Dr. iur. et rer. pole. Since May 1, 1920 in the judicial service of the Free State of Prussia , he completed the assessor examination on July 30, 1923 . From June 1 to November 1, 1920 he was a member of the German People's Party .

Consular service

In September 1924 he was temporarily employed at the Consulate General in Poznan . On December 9, 1924, he was called up as an attaché to the Foreign Office . After passing the diplomatic-consular examination on December 20, 1926, he was sent to the embassy in Kabul from March to June 1927 . He then served as Vice Consul at the Consulate General in Tbilisi until May 1928 . He then worked in the AA (culture and law departments) until the summer of 1930. On July 26, 1930 he came to the embassy in Kovno . Appointed Legation Secretary on April 30, 1931 , he returned to the AA on July 30, 1933. From August 1, 1933 to October 12, 1934 he was delegated to the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda .

Abyssinia

On December 3, 1934, he joined the German legation in Addis Ababa as legation secretary . Ten years after the use of chemical weapons in the Rif War , the conflict between fascist Italy and the Abyssinian Empire escalated . Haile Selassie therefore asked the German ambassador v. Nice to ask in Berlin whether the Reich government wanted to help his country with weapons in view of the threatened occupation by Italian troops. After v. Having left in 1934, Haile Selassie turned to the Chargé d'Affaires at the end of 1934. He gave him a detailed order list that also included chemical weapons. Untamperly declared that in the tense situation it would not be in Abyssinian interest if the German Reich officially delivered weapons to Ethiopia. The Federal Foreign Office agreed undamaged and instructed him to maintain strict neutrality in the Italian-Ethiopian conflict . In November 1934, Adolf Hitler personally presented Selassie's wishes to Adolf Hitler in Berlin. He delivered his letter reply to Haile Selassie on December 26, 1934.

In Europe there was good relations between the Third French Republic and Fascist Italy in the early 1930s, and in the language of diplomacy, the support of the German Reich for the putschists of Francisco Franco was also a form of neutrality. At the beginning of 1935, Haile Selassie was made an offer to equip the army with heavy weapons for 33 to 36 million Reichsmarks through Hans Steffen - Abyssinia's honorary consul in Berlin and employee of the NSDAP's Foreign Policy Office . In 1935 the Stahl- und Maschinengesellschaft delivered 10,000 Mauser 98 rifles with 10 million rounds of ammunition, machine guns and hand grenades, 36 20-mm Oerlikon cannons and 30 Rheinmetall-Borsig 37-mm anti-aircraft cannons to Abyssinia . Unharmed left Addis Abbeba on September 15, 1935 (before the Italian-Ethiopian War) and traveled by train to Djibouti .

Since November 1, 1935, Unverfsame was a member of the NSDAP .

South America and AA

From January 3, 1936 to May 6, 1937 he was at the legation in Lima . On March 22, 1937, he was also assigned the provisional management of the embassy in Bogotá . He took over the business from June 2, 1937 to February 2, 1938. On March 7, 1938 he came to the embassy in Buenos Aires . In June he was promoted to the Legation Council.

On January 26, 1937, he signed an extradition agreement with the Foreign Minister of Peru, César de la Fuente, as an agent of the German Reich.

Two days after the attack on Poland began , on September 4, 1939, the Foreign Office took him to the Political Department, Section IX / America. From May 28, 1940 to April 3, 1941 he headed the electoral consulate in Split . After two months in the Foreign Office, on June 28, 1941, he took over the management of the electoral consulate in Porto . On August 15, 1941, he was appointed Consul and on June 26, 1942, Consul First Class.

post war period

It remained undamaged in Porto until 1946. He moved to Estoril and Hanover (1950). In 1951/52 he was in Portugal on behalf of the Study Society for Private Law Foreign Interests . From February 1, 1954, he was a senior councilor in the Federal Government's Press and Information Office, responsible for Latin America .

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , p. 102 f.

Fonts

• with Hans Lessing and Reinhold Regensburger: Check Act of March 11, 1908 . Munich 1926. GoogleBooks

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g} Standardized short biography that will appear in Volume 5 of the Biographical Manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945 (Foreign Office, Political Archive)
2. ↑ Dissertation: The search (§§ 102-110 Code of Criminal Procedure) .
3. ↑ Ernst Bauerochse: Your goal was the Oromoland. Beginning of the Hermannsburg missionary work in Ethiopia. Lit, Münster 2006, ISBN 3-8258-9567-X , p. 337 ( digitized version )
4. ^ Zachary Shore: What Hitler knew: The battle for information in Nazi foreign policy. Oxford University Press, Oxford [ua] 2003, ISBN 0-19-515459-2 , p. 69 ("According to Unverfetzt's report, the Ethiopian leader sought not only arms but chemical weapons as well." Digitized )
5. ^ Heinrich Scholler: Law and Politics in Ethiopia. From traditional monarchy to modern state. Lit, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-8258-7789-7 , p. 376 ("whether the German Government would be willing to supply Ethiopia with weapons and other materials", digitized version )
6. ↑ [1]  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ("Hitler's approval of an important arms shipment")  
7. ↑ US Citizens in War Area Given Warning. In: Reading Eagle . September 10, 1935 ("21 German women and children left Addis Ababa by train for Djibouti, French Somaliland. Dr. Unverfetzt the first secretary of the German legation also departed.")
8. ^ Fabián Novak Talavera: Las relaciones entre el Perú y Alemania, 1828–2003. 2004, ISBN 9972-42-634-3 , p. 111 ( digitized version )