Adolph Reifferscheidt

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Adolph Reifferscheidt (born February 11, 1904 in Cologne , † January 18, 1963 in Dublin ) was a German economist and diplomat who was ambassador to the Council of Europe from 1958 to 1960 and, most recently, from 1960 to his death in 1963, was ambassador to Ireland .

Life

Studies, economist and post-war period

After attending school, Reifferscheidt began studying economics at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin , which he continued at the University of Cologne and graduated with a degree in economics . In 1926 he completed his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at the University of Cologne with a dissertation entitled The local transport in Cologne's economic district . After the Fair and Exhibition Office, he of the city from 1927 to 1928 employees in Cologne was, he was in 1929 a member of the Board of the Association of the Rhineland Industrial and then served from 1936 to 1943 as Managing Director of Commerce Rheinland.

After the end of the Second World War , Reifferscheidt was employed in the administrative office for economics in Minden at the beginning of the post-war period in 1946 and then in 1947 in the administration for economics of the United Economic Area in Frankfurt am Main , before he was general manager of the German-Belgian-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce in 1948 to 1952 Cologne.

Consul General, Schmeißer Affair and Ambassador

Reifferscheidt was to enter the foreign service as early as 1951 and was initially earmarked for the post as Consul General in Casablanca and then in 1952 as Consul General in Montreal . However, this appointment was initially postponed on September 23, 1952 after allegations had been made against him that he had advocated the separation of the left bank of the Rhine from Germany. He was also said to have had contacts with Hans-Konrad Schmeißer alias René Levacher, a lawyer and agent in the French secret service SDECE ( Service de Documentation Extérieure et de Contre-Espionnage ) , which triggered the "Schmeißer affair". He had claimed that Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer , Ministerialdirektor Herbert Blankenhorn and Reifferscheid had worked for the French secret service and had supplied a French agent with secret messages. After his appointment as Consul General on September 26, 1952 was approved, he served between 1952 and 1955 as Consul General in Montreal. He was then Consul General in New York City from 1955 to 1958 , where he was replaced by Georg Federer in October 1958 . Even before the judicial evidence was taken in the Schmeißer trial, on September 27, 1955, the defendants had made declarations of honor for Adenauer, Blankenhorn and Reifferscheidt, who then had their charges withdrawn. The Chancellor said that he did not believe that the German press attached more importance to the statements by Schmeißer than to the statements of the Chancellor, Ambassador Blankenhorn and Consul General Reifferscheidt. He had informed the President of the Bundestag that he thought it would be desirable to have an early answer to the SPD's big question in the Bundestag . On October 3, 1955, the SPD parliamentary group asked for clarification of the circumstances leading to the end of the trial in a major question regarding the “conduct of the Federal Chancellor in the case of Schmeißer” (BT-Drs. No. 1733). The public prosecutor's office appealed against the judgment because of the decision on costs. The Federal Court of Justice granted this on March 28 and referred the matter back to the Hanover Regional Court for renewed hearing . There the proceedings were discontinued on November 14, 1957.

Reifferscheidt then succeeded Gerhart Feine as ambassador to the Council of Europe in 1958 and remained in this position until he was replaced by Felician Prill in 1960. He himself succeeded Felician Prill as ambassador in Ireland in 1960 and held this position until his death in 1963 whereupon Heinz Trützschler von Falkenstein became his successor.

publication

  • Local transport in Cologne's economic district , dissertation University of Cologne, Verlag O. Müller, Cologne 1926

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Announcement on the prospect of filling foreign missions. 172nd cabinet meeting on September 11, 1951 (Federal Archives)
  2. ↑ Personal details . 249th cabinet meeting on September 23, 1952 (Federal Archives)
  3. ↑ Carefully on the phone . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1952, pp. 5 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Permission to testify for the Federal Chancellor in the Schmeißer trial. 30th cabinet meeting on April 28, 1954 (Federal Archives)
  5. ↑ SCHMEISSER PROCESS: Early letter from Canada . In: Der Spiegel . No. 1 , 1954, p. 5 ( online ).
  6. ↑ Personal details . 250th cabinet meeting on September 26, 1952 (Federal Archives)
  7. ^ Announcement on the prospect of filling a foreign mission. 69th cabinet meeting on February 2, 1955 (Federal Archives)
  8. ↑ Personal details . 77th cabinet meeting on March 23, 1955 (Federal Archives)
  9. ↑ The Schmeißer case. 98th cabinet meeting on September 28, 1955 (Federal Archives)
  10. ↑ The Schmeißer case. 99th cabinet meeting on October 6, 1955 (Federal Archives)
  11. ^ New appointments to representations of the Federal Republic abroad. 26th cabinet meeting on May 21, 1958 (Federal Archives)
  12. ^ Occupation of German missions abroad. 109th cabinet meeting on June 10, 1960 (Federal Archives)
predecessor Office successor
Felician Prill Ambassador to Ireland
1960–1963 		Heinz Trützschler from Falkenstein
personal data
SURNAME Reifferscheidt, Adolph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1963
Place of death Dublin