Ernst von Weizsaecker/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Ernst von Weizsaecker.

German diplomat from 1920 who rose to State Secretary of the German Foreign Office (1938 to 1943) and then Ambassador to the Holy See; loosely antiwar and aware of the German Resistance and of the Wannsee Conference; imprisoned by the Ministries Case (NMT) after WWII but sentence commuted