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Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1 September 1884 – 1 September 1955) was a German
Friedrich Wilhelm von Prittwitz und Gaffron (1 September 1884 – 1 September 1955) was a German Ambassador
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to the United States
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under the Weimar Republic
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, from 1928 until 14 April 1933. He was in office at the time that Adolf Hitler
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came to power in Germany, and resigned from the diplomatic corps in protest the day after Hitler was appointed Chancellor. He had hosted German Jewish playwright Lion Feuchtwanger
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Feuchtwanger's Ju ...
at a dinner that day. On the day of his resignation, Prittwitz called Feuchtwanger and recommended that he not return to Germany. In 1945 he was a founding member of the Christian Social Union in Bavaria
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, and he served as a member of the Parliament of Bavaria
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from 1946 to 1954.
Honours
*Honorary doctorate
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, Columbia University
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References
* René Moehrle, Judenverfolgung in Triest während Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus 1922–1945, Berlin 2014 (), S. 165–174.External links
* * * 1884 births 1955 deaths Silesian nobility Ambassadors of Germany to the United States Knights Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany {{Germany-diplomat-stub