Sigismund von Braun

Sigismund Freiherr von Braun (14 April 1911 – 13 July 1998) was a German diplomat and Secretary of State in the Foreign Office (1970–1972).

[1] After an apprenticeship in 1934, Braun spent a year at the University of Cincinnati in the United States of America, studying law on a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service.

Until April 1937, he was the personal assistant of the German ambassador in Paris, but in September, due to a dispute with Baldur von Schirach he was reassigned to a new posting at Addis Ababa.

[2] During denazification, Braun was classified as "discharged", despite his party membership, as he had "supported clerical and other offices in hiding people persecuted for religious, political and racial reasons and to obviate their deportation, taking high personal risk.

[3] He was Chief of Protocol of the Foreign Office from 1962 to 1968, Permanent Representative at the United Nations in New York from 1968 to 1970, Secretary of State from 1970 to 1972, and then German Ambassador to France from 1972 to 1976.