Hans Karl Adolf Pilger (January 21, 1888, Cologne - November 8, 1953, Munich ) - German diplomat, plenipotentiary ambassador of Nazi Germany in Afghanistan during the Second World War.
| Hans Pilger | |
|---|---|
| him. Hans Carl Adolph Pilger | |
| Date of Birth | January 21, 1888 |
| Place of Birth | Koln |
| Date of death | November 8, 1953 (aged 65) |
| A place of death | Munich |
| A country | |
| Occupation | diplomat |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 1.1 In the USSR
- 1.2 In Germany
- 2 References
- 3 notes
Biography
University of Giessen and in 1906 took an active part in the student organization Hassia-Giessen Corps [1] . After successfully passing the first legal state exam in 1909, he received a referendum place in the Kingdom of Prussia . During the First World War, he passed from 1914 to 1919 in military service . After the war, he continued his legal studies ( Vorbereitungsdienst ) and in 1919 became an assessor . As such, he entered the diplomatic service in 1919. First, from 1920 to 1924 he was vice consul at the Consulate General in Barcelona , and then for some time he was vice consul in the Second Department of the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs . From 1925 to 1934 he was an adviser to the Embassy in Egypt . In 1934, he returned to Berlin, became the head of the Eastern Department at the Reich Foreign Ministry, and in 1935 was appointed as a lecturer in Legationsrat . June 1, 1937 he joined the NSDAP . Subsequently, as the successor to Kurt Zimke from August 28, 1937 until the end of World War II in 1945, he was Ambassador Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Afghanistan. In this capacity, he received in February 1941 the chairman of the Indian National Congress, Subhash Chandra Bosa [2] .
In the USSR
On his return from Afghanistan through the Soviet Union, he was interned in Moscow in 1945 [3] .
According to Soviet sources, while in Butyrka prison, Pilger gave detailed testimonies about the Abwehr’s activities in Afghanistan, in particular, about the actions of senior lieutenant Abwehr Dietrich Witzel and about the organization “Faal” or “Union” created specifically for the restoration of the Bukhara emirate by the Basmachi forces [4 ] .
He was released and returned to Germany in mid-1946 [3] , spent a total of 13 months in prison [5] .
In Germany
Then he lived in Starnberg [6] .
Links
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographisches Handbuch des deutschen Auswärtigen Dienstes 1871–1945. // Herausgegeben vom Auswärtigen Amt, Historischer Dienst. Band 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn ua 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .
- Hans Pilger // Akten der Reichskanzlei. Weimarer republik
Notes
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 97 , 1040
- ↑ Jan Kuhlmann. Subhas Chandra Bose und die Indienpolitik der Achsenmächte. Verlag Hans Schiler, 2003, ISBN 3-89930-064-5 , S. 125 ( Digitalisat )
- ↑ 1 2 Regierung: Ende der Vertuschung. In: Der Spiegel . Nr. 15/2005
- ↑ Document No. 26: Excerpts from the minutes of the interrogation of the German Ambassador G. Pilger in Butyrka Prison dated January 31, 1946.
- ↑ Hans Pilger // Akten der Reichskanzlei. Weimarer republik
- ↑ Chronik. In: Die Zeit . 19. November 1953