Georg Gyssling

Georg Gyssling ( born June 16, 1893 in Rollers ( Upper Silesia ); † January 8, 1965 in Benidorm ) was a German diplomat and 1927-1941 consul in the United States.

Life

Gyssling studied since 1913 Law, interrupted by military service during the First World War, and put 1917, the state examination from. After that, he was employed in the German Military Administration in Belgium. In August 1919, he received his doctorate. Since December 1919, he was employed in the Foreign Service and went through training stations in Poznan, Krakow and Amsterdam. Since May 1927, he was in the United States Consulate General in New York, the Consulate Consulate General Atlanta and San Francisco, where he led the consulate in Los Angeles since 1933.

Gyssling increased in 1932 as bobsledder the German Olympic squad and was at the 1932 Olympic Games in Lake Placid in the four-man competition, together with the " Notpiloten " Walther von Mumm, Hasso von Bismarck and Gerhard von Hessert Seventh and Last, after the second run was the team even in sixth place. Gyssling was like three jumped in the other at the last minute after after heavy falls of Werner Fritz tooth and gray were numerous athletes from the original crew in hospital.

Gyssling had joined the Nazi party in 1931 and organized in the NSDAP / AO. After the seizure he pursued the objectives of National Socialist policy against the German refugees on the U.S. West Coast, where he used the, economically related, sympathies of the American movie moguls in Nazi Germany and promoted. The film actor of the film adaptation of Remarque novel The Road Back The Road Back in 1936 he sat under pressure. The film The Great Dictator, he tried to prevent. After the Anschluss he declared publicly that the Jews in Austria would have to expect any other interference with their property, as the Jews of the German Reich before. He promoted the National Socialist activities of German Americans at Walter cap and the German Confederation America by illegally imported writings about the Consulate and funds were distributed.

Even before the declaration of war of Germany and Italy to the United States on 11 December 1941, the German consular authorities had been closed in the U.S. in June and Gyssling returned to the Foreign Office back to Berlin. He was in the action Bernhard, in Germany in fake pound notes were prepared for procurement of foreign currency, as an agent of the distributor Friedrich Schwendberg in disposing of used banknotes.

Since November 1944, he was with the SS-Sonderkommando of III. ( Germanic ) SS Panzer Corps in Laber / Meran and was at the truce negotiations between the General of the Waffen- SS, Karl Wolff and Allen Dulles in Operation Sunrise, a messenger because he could enter on a diplomatic passport from the German occupied Italy to Switzerland.

About his internment, denazification and its other activities is not known.

Writings

• Georg Gyßling, The State Security of the German compared to the foreign countries, or the above, 1921