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SECRET cio
Cnnnll Generl
Horn on 7 Ha y 1326 at SST.
Forn Service as follos:
`-.-iect held p os-'tions in the
1930-1932
1932-19
Consuan
Elabas s- 0.ons nTa te TS THN7AC
1233-1939 Co s -J i atn in STJA7MAT
1939-19b4
1944-1945
Consulate 1.n HA9!9n0
Consulate PVT)TNG
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Sn l.)ect was a member of t'-c , -arti r s-7 nce l93. no rank.
interrations subjec',t made a very good impression, -and
typical type of cons-.1.1-r official. -)1.ibject released to
DirP.CHCIAMSTV-,141,
BRA9 T.71 .TERT. :1E11M Dr
Legationssekretar
turing
is the
ST'kAT-
Bern on 23 September 1910 at BRESLAU. From 1939 until 1942
subject vms working with the German Consulate in KME; from
190 until 1945 he was with the German Embassy in TOKYO. Highest
rank held; Legaticassekretar. Subject is not a career diplomat
and received the job while travelling in CHINA. He was asked by
the German Consulate in KflEE to itake over the position of legal
advisor to the Consulate. In 1942 he was sent to the German
Embassy in TOKYO. There he had the position of Assessor, and his
duties were to see that the destitute wives and children were cared
for financially. Impression during the interrogation revealed that
even though he was a member of the party, he cannot be classified
as anactivist; and he should be given every opportunity to reestablish
himself in Germany. Subject released to STAATLICHES
:)UPG7IGIANGLAGER, BIETIGHA.
MAT T , DR. K.O.
V -MAN
Information of a secret nature was Passed to Abt VI C/4 by Dr
BRAUN, the head of the Politische Abt Ostasien at the' Foreign
Office. He informed Abt VI C/4 of the text of ambassadorial
recorts from TOKYO, NANKING and HSINKING and on two occasions
showed reports from STAHMER to persons who were not authorized to
see them as these reports were of Top Secret nature. The reports
from STARER in TOKYO always gave a distorted picture because a
tendency to veil the growing seriousness of JAPAN t s situation was
too obvious. Such statements were to the effect that Allied air
attacks had not impaired the Japanese armament industry, although
it was known'in Berlin that the damage was great. There was mention
of Japanese attempts to cemete terms with CHIANG KAISHEK having'
failed; the difficulty of the choice of a successor to WANG CHING
WEI in NANKING, CHINA: a journey undertaken at the invitation of the
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