Tuch, Hans N. (37525881)

Hans N. Tuch
Personal details
Birth name	Tom
Nativity	Germany
Religion	Jewish
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch	United States Army
ASN	37525881
Rank	Private First Class
Camp Ritchie	Class 18 (13 April – 10 June 1944)
Section	5B
Team	IPW 87

Teammates

Team — IPW 87

These are other soldiers listed on the same team roster. People moved between teams; overlapping service dates are not always documented.

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Hans N. Tuch (ASN 37525881) was a Ritchie Boy (born 'Tom'; from Germany; Jewish) who trained at Camp Ritchie in class 18 and served with IPW Team 87.

Biography

Ritchie Boy Hans N. Tuch came to the United States from Germany in 1938 as a 14-year- old. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Tuch’s career with the U.S Information Service included positions in Germany (where he served as Director of Amerika Haus in Wiesbaden/Frankfurt from 1949-52), Washington, DC, Russia, Bulgaria, and Brazil. He was interviewed in this article (pp 248-251 about his foreign service career after WWII.

Ritchie Boy Hans Tuch was interviewed by Gail Schwartz on behalf of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum at his residence in Bethesda, MD on November 7, 2013.

Ritchie Boy Hans N. Tuch Continued. From the World War II History Project site: "Hans “Tom” Tuch and his family fled the Nazis and settled in America. After training at Camp Ritchie, Tom served in the 101st Airborne Paratroopers and as a translator. After the war, he joined the diplomatic service where he was posted in West Germany and the Soviet Union."

Ritchie Boy Tom Tuch, who passed away in September 2020, served as a career Foreign Service Office. RB Tuch was an early and persistent advocate of public diplomacy as an indispensable element in the conduct of U.S. foreign affairs. His book, "Communicating with the World: U.S. Public Diplomacy Overseas," written in cooperation with Georgetown University, was the first major work written by a practicing public diplomat.

In 1985, Ritchie Boy Tom Tuch returned to the United States from his last Foreign Service post, as Minister-Counselor for Public Affairs in Bonn, Germany. Before his departure, RB Tuch was honored by the President of the German Republic with the award of the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is awarded for special achievements in political, economic, cultural, intellectual or honorary fields. Please help our effort to get the US Government to honor Tom Tuch and the other Ritchie Boys by awarding them the Congressional Gold Medal!

Research notes

• Amerika Haus; USIA
• 10/15/1924-A

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Technical record

Field	Imported value
Class_ASN	37525881
Class_Name	TUCH, Hans N.
match_method	asn_exact_name_exact
row_source	both

Sources

• Camp Ritchie class roster (classes 1–31), merged research file
• NARA World War II Army enlistment records (where a NARA ASN is present)
• 1940 U.S. Census (where a census match is present)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2019-09-02 (3 posts)
• Ritchie Boys of WWII Facebook page, post dated 2022-03-19 (2 posts)
• Facebook-linked source: bit.ly
• Facebook-linked source: bit.ly
• Facebook-linked source: bit.ly