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Reinhard Spitzy
Reinhard Nikolaus Karl Spitzy (born 11 February 1912 in Graz,[1] died 2 November 2010[2] in Maria Alm am Steinernen Meer) was an AustrianSSHauptsturmführer (from 1938), Nazi official and diplomat.
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He was a personal assistant to German Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop, through whom he met Adolf Hitler.[3]
Life
The son of Hans Spitzy, he attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna, then a flight school and officer school.
He joined the Nazi Party and SA in October 1931, then the SS in January 1932.[2] In 1934 he was involved in the preparations for the failed July Putsch in Austria.[1] He studied at the university until 1934, in 1936 he received the diploma of the Section Diplomatique with distinction from the École libre des sciences politiques in Paris.
From 1936 to 1938 he was secretary to the German ambassador Joachim von Ribbentrop in London, with whom he returned to the German Foreign Office in 1938.