Cécil von Renthe-Fink

Cécil Karl- Ernst August Timon Anton von Renthe Finch, actually called by Renthe Fink ( born January 27, 1885 in Wroclaw, Lower Silesia, † August 22, 1964 in Munich) was a German diplomat. From 9 April 1940 to November 1942 he was imperial representative in occupied Denmark.

Life

Renthe Finch came from a family of Anhalt, who has been charged with his great-grandfather, the Anhalt Government President Lebrecht Renthe in Köthen, Anhalt in 1820 in the peerage, and was the son of the royal Prussian lieutenant general zD Cécil of Renthe Finch (1845-1909) and Agnes of Opole - Bronikowski ( 1856-1945 ).

At the end of law school in Geneva, Munich and Berlin, he wrote in 1907 as a law clerk his dissertation The marketability of Kux in the Prussian mining law ( Verlag A. battles, Jena 1907) at the Law Faculty of the University of Jena. In 1913, he joined the Foreign Service. From 1924 to 1926 he was a member of the German People's Party. Between 1924 and 1927 he was seconded to the International Elbe Commission and was thereafter until October 1933 Member of the Political Department of the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva.

In 1936 he was appointed German ambassador to Denmark. In 1939 he joined the NSDAP. After the "Company Weser Exercise", which led to the occupation of Denmark by the German Reich on 9 April 1940, he became Reich representative. In November 1942, he was replaced by Werner Best. He was considered more reluctant diplomat and his successor should represent a harder line.

1943 Renthe Finch Diplomatic Special Envoy for Marshal Pétain at Vichy regime, he still accompanied by Sigmaringen, where the Petain government fled to the Allied invasion of France in September 1944.

With Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop now the creation of a European federation has been proposed, among other things, a common German currency, a central bank in Berlin, the principle of regionalism and economic and trade agreements were provided. For this purpose, listed by Renthe Finch on September 9, 1943

"If we now the idea of ​​states bund handy solution, would be based on voluntary cooperation of independent nations, absorb, it would determine the confidence of the European people strengthened in our policy and their willingness to be increased to follow our lead and create for our victory. "

About his denazification is not known.

Renthe Finch married on 17 July 1919 in Oberhofen ( Switzerland ) Christa Countess Vitzthum of Eckstadt ( born July 25, 1897 in Dresden). The couple had three daughters and two sons.