deaths
December 19, 1986
Werner Dankwort, Russian-German colonel and diplomat (born 1895)
Werner Dankwort
Carl Werner Dankwort born in Gumbinnen, East Prussia, was a German diplomat who served a major role in bringing Germany into the League of Nations in 1926 prior to representing the German contingent in the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, the post-World War II effort known as the Marshall Plan.