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'''Ernst Wörmann''' (30 March 1888, [[Dresden]], [[German Empire]] — 5 July 1979, [[Heidelberg]], [[Federal Republic of Germany (1949-1990)|West Germany]]) was a [[German people|German]] diplomat who worked for the [[Foreign Office (Germany)|Foreign Office]] under the [[Third Reich]]. He was a junior [[Secretary of state|state secretary]] of the German Foreign Ministry (1940—43) and the German ambassador to the [[Reorganized National Government of China|Nanjing Nationalist Government]], the [[Imperial Japan|Japanese]] puppet government in [[China]] (1943—45).
== Biography ==
Wörmann was the son of German art historian [[Karl Woermann]], and had been born in [[Dresden]] in 1888. After attending a gymnasium, Wörmann studied law at the [[Heidelberg University]], the [[Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich]], [[Freiburg University]] and [[Leipzig University]]. He got a doctorate in law and afterwards fought in [[World War I]] as an enlisted soldier, and then as a [[senior lieutenant]] (''[[Oberleutnant]]''). Following the end of the war and demobilization, Wörmann worked in the [[Hamburg]] courts (''Hamburger Justizdienst'') and then the [[Foreign Office (Germany)|Foreign Ministry]] (from 1919). In 1920, Wörmann was among the German delegation at the [[Paris Peace Conference, 1919|Paris Peace Conference]] and was part of the German embassy staff in [[France]]. In 1925 he was transferred to [[Vienna]] before working in the main department of the Foreign Ministry. Wörmann was named "Envoy 1st class" in 1936 and worked at the embassy in [[London]], being a close confidante of [[Joachim von Ribbentrop]]. On 1 December 1937 he became a member of the [[NSDAP]].
After von Ribbentrop was appointed the German foreign minister in April 1938 Wörmann replaced [[Ernst von Weizsäcker]] as the head of the political department of the Foreign Office. He also received the rank of ''[[SS-Standartenführer]]'' (equivalent of a [[colonel]]). In 1940, he became the junior state secretary (''Unterstaatssekretär'') of the ministry.
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