VISCOUNT ELIBANKMy Lords, I beg to ask Her Majesty's Government the Question which stands in my name on the Order Paper.
§ [The Question was as follows:
§ To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they can give the names of the three Germans on the Krupp Mixed Committee, and their political, business, economic or other associations.]
§ THE JOINT PARLIAMENTARY UNDER-SECRETARY OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS (THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNE)My Lords, the three German members appointed are Dr. Wilhelm Vocke, former President of the Deutscher Länder Bank, and a well-known anti-Nazi; Dr. Rolf Stodter, Judge of the Hamburg Constitutional Court, Professor of International Law at the University of Hamburg, and a partner in a shipping firm; and Herr Ludwig Kattenstroth, an Under-Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Economics, who formerly worked in the economic administration of the combined Western Zones of Germany.
VISCOUNT ELIBANKMy Lords, I thank the noble Marquess for his Answer. May I ask whether the seventh member under the terms of Article X of the Bonn Convention has yet been elected; and can the noble Marquess say whether he has any idea when the meetings of the Mixed Committee are to commence?
§ THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNEThe answer to the first part of the question is that the seventh member has not yet been elected; he will be elected by the other six. In answer to the second part of the question, the Committee are to meet on June 25.
§ LORD OGMOREMy Lords, may I ask the noble Marquess whether the 1256 second and third gentlemen he mentioned are also anti-Nazis?
§ THE MARQUESS OF LANSDOWNEI have rather more complete biographical information, if your Lordships would care to hear it. Dr. Wilhelm Vocke is known as a fervent Protestant and anti-Nazi; Dr. Rolf Stodter has no known political affiliations, either now or during the Nazi period. As for the third gentleman, Herr Ludwig Kattenstroth, he was not a member of a Nazi Party, and has no known political affiliation.