Eugen Dollmann (* 8. August 1900 in Regensburg; † 17. May 1985 in Munich) was a German Diplomat member of the SS.[1][2]
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The son of Paula Dollmann, born Schummerer and Stefan Dollmann, Eugen Dollmann graduated in 1926 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München as Doktor der Philosophie. From 1927 to 1930 Dollmann studied in Rome the history of the Farnese family and Italian art history.
He was living at the Piazza di Spagna where he worked as interpreter. There he met Heinrich Himmler who introduced him with Karl Wolff. In 1934 Dollmanns become Italienkorrespondent of the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten. In 1935 he become Chief of the NSDAP/AO Press office in Italy. In 1937 he become Oberst of the Schutzstaffel.
In 1939 was appointed German Ambassador to the Holy See. He helped Virginia Agnelli escape from detention and was with her help able to arrange a meeting between the SS General Wolff and Pope Pius XII to negotiate the peaceful German evacaution of Rome. Later he as Befehlshaber der Polizei was Adjutant of Karl Wolff in a villa on the Lake Garda. On 20 July 1944 Dollmann was official interpreter at the meeting of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, at the Wolfsschanze, immediately after The 20 July plot.