Leopold von Hoesch

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The grave of Giro, von Hoesch's dog, stands outside the former German Embassy in London.

Leopold von Hoesch (10 June 1881 – 10 April 1936) was a career German diplomat.

Locarno Treaty of 1924.[citation needed
]

Leopold von Hoesch (on left), 1932

In November 1932, Hoesch was transferred to the United Kingdom, where he would stay until his death in 1936.

Anglo-German relations
in the early 1930s.

With the

Konstantin Neurath that detailed Hoesch's distrust of Joachim von Ribbentrop
, whom Hitler had appointed to serve as Commissioner of Disarmament Questions.

The relationship between Hoesch and Hitler continued to sour as Ribbentrop gained more power within the German government. By 1936, Hoesch was quickly becoming a thorn in Hitler's side. After the

remilitarization of the Rhineland
on 7 March 1936, Hoesch wrote to Neurath by denouncing the act as an action designed to provoke the French and ultimately the British.

Less than one month later, at 10 am 11 April 1936, Hoesch died of a heart attack while he was dressing in his bedroom at the German Embassy. After his death, he was honoured with a large British-ordered funeral

cortège in which his flag-draped coffin was escorted to Dover, where a 19-gun salute was fired as his body was transferred to the British destroyer HMS Scout for transport back to Germany.[3] Hoesch's dog Giro, who died in 1934 after chewing an electric cable, is buried in London in the garden of the former German Embassy at 9 Carlton House Terrace.[4]

He was replaced by Ribbentrop, Hitler's favourite foreign policy advisor, who would later be hanged for war crimes.

References

  1. ISBN 9783540256618
    . Retrieved 21 October 2011.
  2. ISBN 0691036608
    .
  3. ^ "Funeral Of The German Ambassador: Statesmen's Tribute". The Times. No. 47350. 16 April 1936. p. 16.
  4. ISBN 978-0718895457
    .

External links
Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
German Ambassador to the Court of St. James

1932–1936 		Succeeded by
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