Name Georg Gyssling | Role Olympic athlete | |
Died January 8, 1965, Benidorm, Spain | ||
Georg Gyssling (16 June 1893 – 8 January 1965) was German consul to the United States from 1927 until 1941, since 1933 in Los Angeles. He was member of the Nazi Party from 1931.
He was also a bobsledder who competed in the early 1930s; he finished seventh and last in the four-man event at the 1932 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York.
Hitler’s man in Hollywood
The Third Reich’s diplomatic representative in Los Angeles, Georg Gyssling, who has been referred to as ‘Hitler’s Hollywood consul’, had a specific brief to monitor the activities of the studios. By all accounts he was extremely diligent in his duties.
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