Georg f duckwitz biography

Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz was a German diplomat.
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz was born in Bremen to an old patrician family in the Hanseatic city.
Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz was born on September 29, 1904, in Bremen, Germany, to an old patrician family in the Hanseatic city.

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Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz Chronology

Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz was a member of the Nazi Party and was sent as a Trade Attaché to the German Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark. When Duckwitz learned that the Nazi occupying government was planning to deport Danish Jews, he alerted the Danish government and Jewish community leaders. In addition, he made a clandestine trip to Stockholm to meet with the Prime Minster of Sweden to arrange for safe haven for the Jews. For these actions, he could have been killed. The Danish underground in turn implemented the rescue of more than 7,000 Danish Jews. As a result, 99% of Danish Jews were hidden and smuggled into neutral Sweden, where they survived the war. After the war, Duckwitz became the German Ambassador to Denmark. Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz was designated Righteous Among the Nations in 1971.

1928
Georg Duckwitz, German citizen, moves to Denmark.

April 1940
German invasion and occupation of Denmark.

Georg Duckwitz recruited as shipping attaché, attached to the German Embassy.

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Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz

German diplomat and Righteous Among the Nations

Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz (German:[ˈɡeːɔʁkˈfɛʁdinantˈdʊkvɪts]^ⓘ; 29 September 1904, Bremen – 16 February 1973) was a German diplomat. During World War II, he served as an attaché for Nazi Germany in occupied Denmark. He tipped off the Danes about the Germans' intended deportation of the Jewish population in 1943 and arranged for their reception in Sweden. Danish resistance groups subsequently rescued 95% of Denmark's Jewish population. Israel has designated Duckwitz as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Early life

Duckwitz was born on 29 September 1904 in Bremen, Germany,^[1] to an old patrician family in the Hanseatic City.^[2] After college, he began a career in the international coffee trade.

Career

From 1928 to 1932 Duckwitz lived in Copenhagen, Denmark. In November 1932, he met Gregor Strasser, the leader of the leftist branch of the German nationalistic Nazi Party, in Bremen. Over the course of their conversation, Duckwitz found that "elements

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Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz

Georg Ferdinand Duckwitz was born on September 29, 1904, in Bremen, Germany, to an old patrician family in the Hanseatic city. After finishing commercial college, he pursued a career in the international coffee trade, residing for several years in Scandinavian countries. In 1939, the Nazi Foreign Ministry assigned him to the German embassy in Copenhagen as an expert in maritime affairs.

As Duckwitz was intimately acquainted with local conditions and enjoyed good connections with Danish leaders, after 1942, he became a close confidant of the new Nazi Reich Representative (Reichsbevollmächtigter) for Denmark, Werner Best. A former deputy chief of the Gestapo and a hard-core Nazi ideologue, Best nevertheless chose to stick to the moderate policies of his predecessors. However, Hitler demanded a new iron-fist policy toward the increasingly rebellious country and an immediate implementation of the “Final Solution.”

On September 28, 1943, Best tipped off his confidant about the plan for the deportation of Denmark’s Jewish community of 6,500 people. At gre