Hans Globke, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Hans Globke

German politician

Date of Birth: 10-Sep-1898

Place of Birth: Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 13-Feb-1973

Profession: lawyer, politician, jurist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Hans Globke

  • Hans Josef Maria Globke (10 September 1898 – 13 February 1973) was a German lawyer, high-ranking civil servant and politician who served as Under-Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the German Chancellery in West Germany from 28 October 1953 to 15 October 1963.
  • During World War II, Globke, a Ministerialdirigent in the Office for Jewish Affairs in the Ministry of the Interior, wrote a legal annotation on the anti-semitic Nuremberg Race Laws that did not express any objection to the discrimination against Jews, and placed the Nazi Party on a firmer legal ground, setting the path to The Holocaust.
  • Globke later had a controversial career as Secretary of State and Chief of Staff of the West German Chancellery.
  • In this role he was responsible for running the Chancellery, recommending the people who were appointed to roles in the government, coordinating the government's work, and for the establishment and oversight of the West German intelligence service and for all matters of national security.Globke became a powerful éminence grise of the West German government, and was widely regarded as one of most influential public officials in the government of Chancellor Konrad Adenauer.
  • Globke had a major role in shaping the course and structure of the state and West Germany's alignment with the United States.
  • He was also instrumental in West Germany's anti-communist policies at the domestic and international level and in the western intelligence community, and was the German government's main liaison with NATO and other western intelligence services, especially the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
  • During his lifetime, his role in the Nazi state was only partially known.

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