Sholes, Walter H. was born on February 17, 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of John Peter and Agnes Emma (Brebeck) Schulz.
Educated at Emerson Institute (Washington, District of Columbia), Columbia University., and in Berlin, Germany (no degrees).
Formerly a political writer and editor in Oklahoma, and Washington correspondent.
U. S. Consul at Aden, Arabia, 1911-1913, Nantes, France, 1913-1915, St. Michael, Portugal, 1915, Berne, Switzerland, 1915-1917, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,1917-1919, Göteborg, Sweden, 1919-1926, Trieste, Italy, 1926-1930, Brussels, 1930-1937. Consul general, Milan, 1937-1940, Lyons, France, 1940-1942, at Basel, Switzerland, 1941-1947, retired 1947.
Official observer, International Maritime Congress, Göteborg, 1923.
Member Pan-American Society. Member Academy of Political Science, American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Member of Pan American Society.
Married Isabel Nicholas Phillips, October 17, 1911.
Children: Agnes Nicholas Sholes Sanson Johnson and Janie Belle Randolph Brebeck Sholes Janney MacElree.
father: John Peter Schulz
mother: Agnes Emma (Brebeck) Schulz
spouse: Isabel Nicholas Phillips
From a document listing Diplomats who helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust: Walter Sholes, US Consul General in Lyon, France, 1940 Walter Sholes was the US Consul General in Lyon, France, after the fall of France in 1940. Consul General Sholes requested that the US State Department transfer a large number of German and Polish quota numbers to be issued to German, Austrian and French Jews who were trapped in southern France. The American embassy in Berlin asked Sholes to re-examine these cases and to turn down the refugees’ requests for visas. [Hodgdon to Sholes, 15 October 1940, NA RG 84, American Consulate Basle, 123-L, as cited in Feingold, Henry L. “Who Shall Bear the Guilt for the Holocaust: The Human Dilemma.” American Jewish History, 7, 1-22.]
Walter was involved in the rescue of the children of La Hille from the Holocaust. There is a book about these children written by Walter W. Reed and he cites the letters to and from Consul Sholes in 1942. Walter was the US Consul to Switzerland at the time.
Educated at Emerson Institute (Washington, District of Columbia), Columbia University., and in Berlin, Germany (no degrees).
Formerly a political writer and editor in Oklahoma, and Washington correspondent.
U. S. Consul at Aden, Arabia, 1911-1913, Nantes, France, 1913-1915, St. Michael, Portugal, 1915, Berne, Switzerland, 1915-1917, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,1917-1919, Göteborg, Sweden, 1919-1926, Trieste, Italy, 1926-1930, Brussels, 1930-1937. Consul general, Milan, 1937-1940, Lyons, France, 1940-1942, at Basel, Switzerland, 1941-1947, retired 1947.
Official observer, International Maritime Congress, Göteborg, 1923.
Member Pan-American Society. Member Academy of Political Science, American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Member of Pan American Society.
Married Isabel Nicholas Phillips, October 17, 1911.
Children: Agnes Nicholas Sholes Sanson Johnson and Janie Belle Randolph Brebeck Sholes Janney MacElree.
father: John Peter Schulz
mother: Agnes Emma (Brebeck) Schulz
spouse: Isabel Nicholas Phillips
From a document listing Diplomats who helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust: Walter Sholes, US Consul General in Lyon, France, 1940 Walter Sholes was the US Consul General in Lyon, France, after the fall of France in 1940. Consul General Sholes requested that the US State Department transfer a large number of German and Polish quota numbers to be issued to German, Austrian and French Jews who were trapped in southern France. The American embassy in Berlin asked Sholes to re-examine these cases and to turn down the refugees’ requests for visas. [Hodgdon to Sholes, 15 October 1940, NA RG 84, American Consulate Basle, 123-L, as cited in Feingold, Henry L. “Who Shall Bear the Guilt for the Holocaust: The Human Dilemma.” American Jewish History, 7, 1-22.]
Walter was involved in the rescue of the children of La Hille from the Holocaust. There is a book about these children written by Walter W. Reed and he cites the letters to and from Consul Sholes in 1942. Walter was the US Consul to Switzerland at the time.
Sholes, Walter H. was born on February 17, 1883 in Brooklyn, New York, United States. Son of John Peter and Agnes Emma (Brebeck) Schulz.
Educated at Emerson Institute (Washington, District of Columbia), Columbia University., and in Berlin, Germany (no degrees).
Formerly a political writer and editor in Oklahoma, and Washington correspondent.
U. S. Consul at Aden, Arabia, 1911-1913, Nantes, France, 1913-1915, St. Michael, Portugal, 1915, Berne, Switzerland, 1915-1917, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,1917-1919, Göteborg, Sweden, 1919-1926, Trieste, Italy, 1926-1930, Brussels, 1930-1937. Consul general, Milan, 1937-1940, Lyons, France, 1940-1942, at Basel, Switzerland, 1941-1947, retired 1947.
Official observer, International Maritime Congress, Göteborg, 1923.
Member Pan-American Society. Member Academy of Political Science, American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Member of Pan American Society.
Married Isabel Nicholas Phillips, October 17, 1911.
Children: Agnes Nicholas Sholes Sanson Johnson and Janie Belle Randolph Brebeck Sholes Janney MacElree.
father: John Peter Schulz
mother: Agnes Emma (Brebeck) Schulz
spouse: Isabel Nicholas Phillips
From a document listing Diplomats who helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust: Walter Sholes, US Consul General in Lyon, France, 1940 Walter Sholes was the US Consul General in Lyon, France, after the fall of France in 1940. Consul General Sholes requested that the US State Department transfer a large number of German and Polish quota numbers to be issued to German, Austrian and French Jews who were trapped in southern France. The American embassy in Berlin asked Sholes to re-examine these cases and to turn down the refugees’ requests for visas. [Hodgdon to Sholes, 15 October 1940, NA RG 84, American Consulate Basle, 123-L, as cited in Feingold, Henry L. “Who Shall Bear the Guilt for the Holocaust: The Human Dilemma.” American Jewish History, 7, 1-22.]
Walter was involved in the rescue of the children of La Hille from the Holocaust. There is a book about these children written by Walter W. Reed and he cites the letters to and from Consul Sholes in 1942. Walter was the US Consul to Switzerland at the time.
Educated at Emerson Institute (Washington, District of Columbia), Columbia University., and in Berlin, Germany (no degrees).
Formerly a political writer and editor in Oklahoma, and Washington correspondent.
U. S. Consul at Aden, Arabia, 1911-1913, Nantes, France, 1913-1915, St. Michael, Portugal, 1915, Berne, Switzerland, 1915-1917, Nuevo Laredo, Mexico,1917-1919, Göteborg, Sweden, 1919-1926, Trieste, Italy, 1926-1930, Brussels, 1930-1937. Consul general, Milan, 1937-1940, Lyons, France, 1940-1942, at Basel, Switzerland, 1941-1947, retired 1947.
Official observer, International Maritime Congress, Göteborg, 1923.
Member Pan-American Society. Member Academy of Political Science, American Academy of Political and Social Science.
Member of Pan American Society.
Married Isabel Nicholas Phillips, October 17, 1911.
Children: Agnes Nicholas Sholes Sanson Johnson and Janie Belle Randolph Brebeck Sholes Janney MacElree.
father: John Peter Schulz
mother: Agnes Emma (Brebeck) Schulz
spouse: Isabel Nicholas Phillips
From a document listing Diplomats who helped rescue Jews from the Holocaust: Walter Sholes, US Consul General in Lyon, France, 1940 Walter Sholes was the US Consul General in Lyon, France, after the fall of France in 1940. Consul General Sholes requested that the US State Department transfer a large number of German and Polish quota numbers to be issued to German, Austrian and French Jews who were trapped in southern France. The American embassy in Berlin asked Sholes to re-examine these cases and to turn down the refugees’ requests for visas. [Hodgdon to Sholes, 15 October 1940, NA RG 84, American Consulate Basle, 123-L, as cited in Feingold, Henry L. “Who Shall Bear the Guilt for the Holocaust: The Human Dilemma.” American Jewish History, 7, 1-22.]
Walter was involved in the rescue of the children of La Hille from the Holocaust. There is a book about these children written by Walter W. Reed and he cites the letters to and from Consul Sholes in 1942. Walter was the US Consul to Switzerland at the time.
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