Cécil von Renthe-Fink

Cécil Karl-August Timon Ernst Anton von Renthe-Fink (1885 Breslau, Silesia Province, German Empire–1964 Munich, West Germany) was a German diplomat.

In 1926, Cécil von Renthe-Fink was posted to Dresden as Joint Secretary of the International Elbe Commission.

This Commission had been set up by the League of Nations to ensure that the Elbe was kept as a free outlet to the North Sea for shipping from Czechoslovakia.

In that year, the German ministers Joachim von Ribbentrop and Renthe-Fink proposed the creation of a European Confederation, which would have had a single currency, a central bank in Berlin, a regional principle, a labour policy, and economic and trading agreements.

He was married to Countess Christa von Eckstädt, daughter of Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt.

Renthe-Fink (second from right) at a meeting of the Danish-German Association, 1941