Background
Wiedemann was born on 15 August 1891 in Augsburg, Upper Bavaria.
Wiedemann was born on 15 August 1891 in Augsburg, Upper Bavaria.
Pursuing an army career, he was promoted to Lieutenant in 1912 and during World War I he was Battalion Adjutant and Commanding Officer of the Seventeenth Bavarian Infantry Regiment. After the war Wiedemann retired and became a farmer in Lower Bavaria.
In 1934 he joined the NSDAP, becoming Hitler’s personal Adjutant, and was frequently sent on unofficial diplomatic missions. Active in Austrian affairs in 1936-7, he worked with the German Ambassador von Papen against the incumbent Chancellor Schuschnigg .
In July 1938 he went to London for talks with Lord Halifax and in 1939 he was sent to San Francisco as German Consul-General. After his expulsion to Germany in June 1941, he was appointed German Consul- General in Tientsin (China), holding the post from October of the same year until his arrest by the Americans in 1945. Wiedemann, who had held the rank of SA-Brigadeführer since 1935, appeared as a witness at the Nuremberg trials where he was sentenced to twenty-eight months’ imprisonment.
Released in 1948 he subsequently lived as a farmer in southern Germany until his death in 1970.
NSDAP , Germany
1924