Eberhard von Stohrer

The son of an Army General from Württemberg, he studied at Leipzig University, receiving a Doctor of Law degree.

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 Spanish and organized an intelligence network closely associated, apparently, to German Ambassador Leopold von Hoesch.

[1] He was an avid automobile racer and became lost during an April 1936 race between Cairo and the Bahariya Oasis.

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 participated in the role during negotiations between the two countries, earlier than 8 July 1940, about Operation Felix, the proposed German seizure of Gibraltar.

Eberhard von Stohrer, was a German diplomat.
Vehicle Mercedes-Benz w31 540. The only one existing today out of four manufactured world wide after 1938 was given by German Ambassador to Spain Eberhard von Stohrer to Spanish General Franco – the other three were used by Adolf Hitler , Joseph Goebbels and Benito Mussolini . It was restored during 2001–2005 by the German firm Mercedes-Benz Cars on behalf of its actual proprietor, the Spanish State National Patrimony
A 1916 photograph of the then Lieutenant Colonel of the German Artillery Wilhelm Faupel