Eberhard Von Stohrer
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

Eberhard von Stohrer (5 February, 1883 – March 7, 1953) was a career German diplomat who served during World War I and World War II. The son of an Army General from Württemberg, he studied at Leipzig University, receiving a Doctor of Law degree. He also studied at the University of Strasbourg and the School of Political Sciences in Paris.


Beginnings as a diplomat

In 1909, he joined the German diplomatic corps, becoming attaché of the embassy in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 1910, he was transferred to London, and in 1912 to Brussels. After a short period of time in Berlin with the central office of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he moved to Madrid, where he learned to speak fluent Spanish and organized an intelligence network closely associated, apparently, to German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch. In 1925, he married Maria Ursula von Stohrer, née von Gunther. She was the daughter of cavalry officer Franz von Günther and Ilse von Koch, born in Wannsee, Berlin, who spent her childhood between Berlin and the countryside. After World War I, he moved to Berlin, and rose through the ranks of the diplomatic corps. In 1927, he was named Germany's envoy to Egypt, and he negotiated a treaty of friendship between Germany and the Kingdom of Hijaz in 1929. He was an avid automobile racer and became lost during an April 1936 race between Cairo and the Bahariya Oasis.Special cable to the New York Times
"Reich envoy to Egypt lost in desert in an auto race"
''The New York Times''. April 20, 1936. Page 8.


Diplomatic missions in Spain

During the Spanish Civil War from July 1936 to April 1939, he stayed in Madrid, acting as an observer and spy of the Second Spanish Republic and reporting news to the Nazi government in Berlin. Artillery General
Wilhelm Faupel Wilhelm may refer to: People and fictional characters * William Charles John Pitcher, costume designer known professionally as "Wilhelm" * Wilhelm (name), a list of people and fictional characters with the given name or surname Other uses * Mount ...
was the Nazi envoy to General
Francisco Franco Francisco Franco Bahamonde (; 4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general who led the Nationalist faction (Spanish Civil War), Nationalist forces in overthrowing the Second Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War ...
's Salamanca headquarters from February to October 1937. There is evidence however that von Stohrer presented his credentials as Ambassador of Germany at Salamanca on 27 August 1937 as ordered from Berlin. He was then appointed German ambassador to Romania, where he served until 1939, when he returned to Berlin. He participated in Operation Willi, the German plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor. He participated in the role during negotiations between the two countries, earlier than 8 July 1940, about
Operation Felix Operation Felix (german: Unternehmen Felix) was the codename for a proposed Nazi German invasion of Spain and seizure of Gibraltar during the Second World War. Subject to the co-operation of the Spanish dictator, Francisco Franco, the operation ...
, the proposed German seizure of
Gibraltar ) , anthem = " God Save the King" , song = " Gibraltar Anthem" , image_map = Gibraltar location in Europe.svg , map_alt = Location of Gibraltar in Europe , map_caption = United Kingdom shown in pale green , mapsize = , image_map2 = Gib ...
. He was replaced with Hans-Adolf von Moltke in January 1943 and worked in Berlin until the end of the war. He died on 7 March 1953 in Konstanz.


Franco-Hitler meeting at Hendaye

He was one of the organizers of the Meeting at Hendaye on the Spanish-French border, 23 October 1940, of Adolf Hitler and
Joachim von Ribbentrop Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop (; 30 April 1893 – 16 October 1946) was a German politician and diplomat who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1945. Ribbentrop first came to Adolf Hitler's not ...
, with General Francisco Franco and Franco´s brother in law Ramón Serrano Suñer). He was not present in the personal encounter between Hitler and Franco.


Connections with the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

Panarabist German connections with Near East politicians were specially cultivated by von Stohrer in the 1920s and 1930s.


Notes


References

*Schwanitz, Wolfgang. ''Germany and the Middle East, 1871–1945'', Markus Wiener Publishers, (2004). *Reinhard Liehr, Günther Maihold und Günther Vollmer (Editors): ''Ein Institut und sein General. Wilhelm Faupel und das Iberoamerikanische Institut in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus''. Frankfurt, (2003) *
Samuel Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood Samuel John Gurney Hoare, 1st Viscount Templewood, (24 February 1880 – 7 May 1959), more commonly known as Sir Samuel Hoare, was a senior British Conservative politician who served in various Cabinet posts in the Conservative and National g ...
, ''Ambassador on Special Mission'', Collins ed. (1946), 320 pages. No ISBN registration as it was printed before 1970. Edited in Spanish translation by Sedmay ed. Madrid (1977) . * Charles B. Burdick. ''Germany's Military strategy and Spain In World War II''. Syracuse Univ. Press, Syracuse, U.S.A., (1968). 228 pages. * Paul Preston (1995). ''The Politics of Revenge: Fascism and the Military in Twentieth-century Spain''. Routledge. pp. 69–70. *
MacGregor Knox MacGregor Knox is an American historian of 20th-century Europe, and was from 1994 to 2010 the Stevenson Professor of International History at the London School of Economics. He is the son of the British-born classical scholar and historian Bernard ...
, (2000),''Common Destiny: Dictatorship, Foreign Policy, and War in Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany'' (Cambridge University Press, , p. xi. Excerpt available at Google Books. * Carlos Caballero Jurado, ''Atlas Ilustrado de la División Azul'', Edit. Susaeta. Hardback, 252 pages, . October (2009). In Spanish *''Germany's Spanish Volunteers 1941–1945, The Blue Division in Russia'', Text by John Scurr, colour Plates by Richard Hook. Osprey Men at Arms 103. Series. . Paperback. 48 pages. Osprey Publishing, England. publ. 24 July 1980.


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Stohrer, Eberhard von 1883 births 1953 deaths Ambassadors of Germany to Spain Ambassadors of Germany to Romania