Dr Edmund Forster

The Man Who Invented Hitler: The Making of the Führer

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    • Edmund’s Brother Dirk Forster

     

    Dirk and Lilly Forster after WWII<br /> Photograph courtesy of Pam Foster

    Dirk and Lilly Forster after WWII
    Photograph courtesy of Pam Foster

    Curriculum Vitae Dirk Forster

    1906   Studied law in Strassburg, Leipzig, Munich
    1906   Referendar (candidate for a higher civil-service post who has passed the first state examination and is undergoing in-service training)
    1911  Assessor (holder of a higher civil service post, who has passed the necessary examinations but has not yet completed his/her probationary period)
    1911   Dr. iur. (Strassburg)
    1912   Started a career in the Foreign Ministry as applicant
    1914   Work for consulate general in Amsterdam
    1916   Service in WWI
    1916   Work for consulate general in Budapest
    1917   Work in the Foreign Ministry
    1918   Worked in the Foreign Ministry
    1919   Counsellor
    1921   Counsellor at the legation of second class at the embassy in Paris
    1925   Work in the Foreign Ministry in Berlin
    1931   Counsellor at the embassy in Paris
    1937   Suspended from job
    1942   Compulsory retirement
    1950   Deputy leader of German office for peace questions

    Certificate for Dirk Forster, 20.11.1950

    “We confirm that Dirk Forster worked for the Foreign Ministry in Berlin from 1912 to 1937 and that he is a victim of persecution of the Nazi regime. On Hitler’s orders, he was dismissed from the Foreign Ministry as politically unreliable in 1937, as he in a meeting with Hitler in 1936 spoke against the planned violent re-militarization of the Rheinland and the violation of the contract of Locarno. “