Rudolf Rahn

Rudolf Rahn (16 March 1900 – 7 January 1975) was a German diplomat who served the Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany.

He spent most of the 1930s at the German Embassy in Ankara, Turkey, then two years in Lisbon. In August 1940, he was posted to Paris. From May 1941, he was political officer in Syria and from November held the same appointment in Tunisia. In 1943, he became Ambassador to Rome, then was Plenipotentiary of the Italian Social Republic in the closing stages of the Second World War. A member of the Nazi Party, at the end of the war Rahn was arrested and held at Nuremberg as a potential war criminal, but he was released in 1949 and deemed to be denazified in Class V (exonerated).

Apart from his memoirs, Rahn wrote on political science and was also a published poet. Provided by Wikipedia