Karl von Spreti

The recorded working language is German. Places of work recorded in the authority are Bonn. Positions recorded include member of the German Bundestag and ambassador of West Germany to the Dominican Republic. Distinctions recorded are Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

• Name — Karl von Spreti • Office — * Member of the Bundestag • for Kempten • Term Start — 7 September 1949 • Term End — 5 March 1956 • Predecessor — Constituency established • Successor — Friedrich Winter • Birth Name — Karl Borromäus Maria Heinrich Graf von Spreti • Born — 21 May 1907 • Birthplace — Landshut, Germany • Died — 5 April 1970 • Place of death — Guatemala City, Guatemala • Death Cause — Homicide • Education — Stella Matutina TU Munich • Occupation — Diplomat • Relatives — Cajetan Graf von Spreti (brother) • Children — 3 • Party — Christian Social Union • Other Party — BVP (before 1933) • Known for — Assassination victim

Spreti was born in the Kapfing Castle near Landshut to an aristocratic family (his direct ancestor was Leo von Klenze). Like his forefather, Karl von Spreti studied architecture. He also joined the Bavarian People's Party. After his service in the Second World War German Army and a short period in Allied captivity, he settled in Lindau, where he continued his career as an architect and as a local politician for the Christian Social Union in Bavaria. In 1956, Spreti became West Germany's first ambassador to Luxembourg since the Second World War, and held that post until 1960, when he became the ambassador to Cuba (until 1963), then to Jordan (1963–1965) and to the Dominican Republic (between 1966 and 1968). Finally he was dispatched to Guatemala during the turbulent times of the Guatemalan Civil War. On 31 March 1970 he was kidnapped by Marxist–Leninist FAR guerillas in Guatemala City and was murdered six days later. West Germany immediately severed diplomatic ties with Guatemala. Three days after Spreti's murder, an anti-communist death squad named Mano Blanca retaliated by assassinating the Communist politician César Montenegro Paniagua.

The following is established of the heading itself.

The following is established of origins and background. Born in 1907 at Kapfing. It is also recorded that karl von Spreti died in 1970 at San Pedro Ayampuc.

• Blumenau, Bernhard. The United Nations and Terrorism. Germany, Multilateralism, and Antiterrorism Efforts in the 1970s. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, ch. 2.. • Katrin Neuhaus: Un error de cálculo. El secuestro y asesinato del Embajador Karl Graf von Spreti a la luz de nuevas fuentes documentales. Guatemala, 2018. Ziviler Friedensdienst, GIZ. https: www.ziviler-friedensdienst.org/de/publikation/un-error-de-calculo