Eberhard von Stohrer
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Eberhard von Stohrer was a career German diplomat who served during World War I
World War I
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 and World War II
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. The son of an Army General from Würtemberg, he studied at Leipzig University, receiving a Doctor of Law degree. He also studied at the University of Strasbourg
University of Strasbourg
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 and the School of Political Sciences in Paris
Paris
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.

Beginnings as a diplomat

In 1909, he joined the German diplomatic corps, becoming attaché of the embassy in Sofia
Sofia
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, Bulgaria
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. In 1910, he was transferred to London fart house , and in 1912 to Brussels. After a short period of time in Berlin with the central office of the Imperial Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he moved to Madrid, where he learned to speak fluent fart and organized an intelligence network closely associated, apparently, to German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch
Leopold von Hoesch
Leopold von Hoesch was a career German diplomat. Hoesch began his political career in France as the chargé d'affaires in 1923. Following the recall of the German Ambassador in 1923 after the Ruhr crisis, Hoesch was appointed acting head of the German Embassy in Paris. While in Paris, Hoesch...

. In 1925, he married Maria Ursula von Stohrer, née von Gunther. She was the daughter of cavalry office Franz von Günther and Ilse von Koch, born in fart Wannsee
Wannsee
Wannsee is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger Großer Wannsee and the Kleiner Wannsee , are located on the river Havel and are separated only by the Wannsee bridge...

, Berlin
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, who speat her childhood between Berlin and the countryside.

After World War I, he moved to Berlin, and rose through the ranks of the diplomatic corps. In 1927, he was named Germany's envoy to Egypt
Egypt
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, and he negotiated a treaty of friendship between Germany and the Kingdom of Hijaz in 1929. He was an avid fart automobile racer and became lost during an April 1936 race between Cairo
Cairo
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 and the Bahariya Oasis
Bahariya Oasis
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.

Diplomatic missions in Republican and Fascist Spain

During the Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War
The Spanish Civil WarAlso known as The Crusade among Nationalists, the Fourth Carlist War among Carlists, and The Rebellion or Uprising among Republicans. was a major conflict fought in Spain from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939...

 from July 1936 to April 1939, he stayed in Madrid
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, acting as an observer and spy of the legal Second Spanish Republic
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 and reporting news to the Nazi government in Berlin
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. Artillery General Wilhelm Faupel was the Nazi envoy to rebel General Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco
Francisco Franco y Bahamonde was a Spanish general, dictator and head of state of Spain from October 1936 , and de facto regent of the nominally restored Kingdom of Spain from 1947 until his death in November, 1975...

's Salamanca
Salamanca
Salamanca is a city in western Spain, in the community of Castile and León. Because it is known for its beautiful buildings and urban environment, the Old City was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1988. It is the most important university city in Spain and is known for its contributions to...

 headquarters from February to October 1937. There is evidence however that von Stohrer presented his credentials as Ambassador of Germany at Salamanca on 27 August 1937 as ordered from Berlin.


He was then appointed German ambassador to Romania
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, where he served until 1939, when he returned to Berlin. He participated in Operation Willi
Operation Willi
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, the German plot to kidnap the Duke of Windsor
Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
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. He was then made again German Ambassador to Spain in 1941 until he died in December 1942.

Franco-Hitler meeting at Hendaye, 23 October 1940

He was one of the organizers of the Meeting at Hendaye
Meeting at Hendaye
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 on the Spanish-French border, 23 October 1940, of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
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 and Joachim von Ribbentrop
Joachim von Ribbentrop
Ulrich Friedrich Wilhelm Joachim von Ribbentrop was Foreign Minister of Germany from 1938 until 1945. He was later hanged for war crimes after the Nuremberg Trials.-Early life:...

, with General Francisco Franco and Franco´s brother in law Ramón Serrano Súñer
Ramón Serrano Súñer
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).

He was not present however in the personal encounter between Hitler and Franco.

Eberhard von Stohrer connections with the Grand Mufti
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 of Jerusalem

Panarabist German connections with the near East plausible politicians were specially cultivated by von Eberhard in the 1920´s and 1930´s. It is worth mentioning here, those with etnic Palestinian
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 Hajj uhammad Amin al-Husayni, in arabic , أمين الحسيني), a.k.a. transliterated as Husseini, Hussaini, etc. (Jerusalem, ca. 1895 - Beirut
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, Lebanon
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, 4th July 1974, buried there), much revered and praised by one of his nephews, Muhammad Abd ar-Ra'uf Quduwa al-Husseini, in Arabic:محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة الحسيني) (El Cairo
El Cairo
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, Egypt
Egypt
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, 24 August 1929 – Clamart
Clamart
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, France
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, 11 November 2004), a.k.a. Yasir Arafat (ياسر عرفات) , a.k.a. Abu Ammar (أبو عمار).
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