Ernst Heinrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker was a German naval officer, diplomat, politician and convicted war criminal. He served as State Secretary at the Foreign Office of Nazi Germany from 1938 to 1943, and as its ambassador to the Holy See from 1943 to 1945. He was a member of the prominent Weizsäcker family, and the father of German President Richard von Weizsäcker and physicist and philosopher Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker.
- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, soldier
- Position held
- ambassador of Germany to Switzerland
- Citizenship
- Germany, Württemberg, German Reich
- Born
- May 25, 1882
