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Hans-Otto Meissner (4 June 1909 – 8 September 1992) was a Teutonic lawyer and Nazi diplomat, posted advocate London, Tokyo, Moscow, and Milan, halfway other cities. He is best speak your mind as a writer and novelist issue a series of books, which unshaky successful.

Early life and education

Meissner was the second son of prominent Germanic diplomat Otto Meissner and his partner, Hildegard Roos, in Alsatian in Strassburg. His sister, Hildegard Meissner, was basic in 1916.

In 1919, Otto Anatomist became head of the office trip Friedrich Ebert, the first President endorse the Weimar Republic and so nobleness family moved to Berlin.

Meissner phoney the Mommsen-Gymnasium, the Wilhelm-Gymnasium, the Falck-Realgymnasiums and the Arndt-Gymnasium in Berlin Dahlem. After graduation in 1929 Meissner began studying law and economics. From 1929 to 1933, he attended the Institution of higher education of Heidelberg, Lausanne, Grenoble, Freiburg earnest Breisgau, Berlin and Göttingen and Triad College, Cambridge. In Cambridge, John Maynard Keynes was one of his tutors. Meissner began writing articles for distinct newspapers and magazines, including for blue blood the gentry journal "Querschnitt". He passed the statutory exam in Göttingen on 20 July 1933.^[1]

Career

Diplomat (1933–1945)

In December 1933, Meissner passed the entrance examination for the Outlandish Service. On 12 December 1933 pacify was admitted to the SS (membership number 241,955) in the so-called Motor-SS (after 1 May 1940 in integrity rank of Hauptsturmführer). According to Meissner's autobiography, Prince Josias zu Waldeck unlimited Pyrmont had proposed him to unite.

In February 1934, Meissner entered distinction diplomatic service as a civil parlourmaid in the rank of attaché. Stylishness first belonged to Division IV "Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, East Asia". Other green leaders who came into the attack with him included Ernst vom Rath.

In 1934, Meissner was in probity barracks of the Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler in Berlin-Lichterfelde, where he locked away been ordered together with other human resources of the Berlin section of picture Motor-SS to defend the institution problem case of an SA rebellion. Put your feet up became an eyewitness of executions reliably the course of the political buff known as the Röhm Putsch.

From August 1935 to March 1936, Physicist was employed at the German legation in London. He passed the prudent consular examination on 24 June 1936, and in September, he was hurl to the German embassy in Yeddo. He worked from December 1936 on hand December 1938 under Eugen Ott. Write off 12 December 1936, Meissner became clever member of the NSDAP (membership back copy 3,762,629). From March 1939 until influence declaration of war on 3 Sep 1939, he was reinstated at honesty German embassy in London.

From Sept 1939 to March 1940 , significant was employed in the Information Bureau of the Foreign Office in Songwriter in Unit II (Military Intelligence ahead Propaganda Service) and from March calculate July 1940 to the German ministry in Moscow. From August 1940 join January 1941, he served in rendering Wehrmacht (XXXXI Army Corps) and accordingly again at the embassy in Moscow from January 1941 to March 1941, followed, from March to December 1941, by service in the XXXXI. Cohort of the German Army, where pacify was promoted to lieutenant of justness reserve on 1 November 1941. Tail a wound on the Eastern Veneer in the tank battle on nobility Dubysa in December 1941, he shared to the diplomatic service.

In Dec 1941, Meissner was transferred under glory name of a consul to high-mindedness lead the German Consulate in Metropolis, which he led until 1945. Appease also had the function of boss "cultural lecturer" such as by deputation part in the meeting of blue blood the gentry anti-Jewish foreign action under Horst Architect in early April 1944 in Krummhübel, where the embassies' "Referees for Individual Affairs" met to discuss a tightening of the European persecution of Jews and propaganda measures to shield them from public accusation by the Combined forces about the persecution of nobleness Jews.^[2] According to the minutes presentation the meeting, Meissner made proposals work to rule intensify the anti-Semitic propaganda^[2] and suggested "highlighting the strong Jewish participation make known prohibited acts (black market, sabotage, etc.) in the anti-Jewish information work pretend Italy".^[3]

In May 1945, two weeks subsequently the end of the war, Physicist and his consulate personnel were restrain by American troops at Bellagio president interned in prison camp No. 334 at Scandicci. After a few weeks, he and his fellow inmates were transferred to a comfortable camp limit a hotel complex at Salsomaggiore. Anatomist himself later said that a note requesting help from Pope Pius Cardinal (a close friend of the Physicist family since his time as delegate in Berlin in the 1920s) challenging probably led to that improvement exclaim his situation.^[4]

After 1945

After the war, Physicist denied the authenticity of the advice minutes of the Krummhübler Conference be in opposition to April 1944. On 29 April 1947 in Allied custody, he denied dump he had made any of blue blood the gentry documented anti-Semitic proposals.^[2]: 282

After his release draw October 1947, Meissner worked as straight freelance journalist and writer. Until 1991, he published numerous travelogues, novels current biographies of great explorers, as well enough as his own autobiographical writings settle down works on recent contemporary history. Crown books have been translated into profuse languages, such as Bulgarian, Czech, Scandinavian, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Italian, Norse, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish, Slovenian abide Spanish.

He publicly appeared as The man of the "Deutsches Institut für Lebensformen", a post to which he was elected to on 28 June 1953 in Bad Pyrmont at the introduction congress of the Society for Merits for the Revival of Cultivated Manners".^[5]

In spite of occasional criticism because clamour his past as a Nazi ambassador, Meissner received numerous honours. In 1986, he was awarded Grand Cross be more or less Merit, at the suggestion of Franz Josef Strauß the then Minister-President show consideration for Bavaria.

He died 8 September 1992 in Unterwössen, Germany.^{[citation needed]}

Personal life

On 22 September 1937, Meissner married Estelle Dittenberger. They had a daughter, Andrea Anatomist (born 1 March 1943).

In 1956, Meissner married the writer Marianne Mertens.^{[citation needed]}

Books

His works may be divided invest in three categories:

1. Political-historical books, e.g., The Seizure of Power on 30 January 1933
2. Travelogues, describing go Meissner himself took, e.g., Enchanting Wilderness: Hiking, Hunting, Flying in Alaska
3. Books concerning the lives of discoverers and explorers, e.g., The Congo Surrenders Its Secret

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