Ekkehard Eickhoff

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Ekkehard Eickhoff (born June 8, 1927 in Berlin ; † May 5, 2019 in Bonn ) was a German historian and German diplomat .

Life

Ekkehard Eickhoff studied history at the Berlin Humboldt University from 1946 to 1948, after a period of study in Beirut and in 1951 in Munich and Saarbrücken after a period of study in Beirut. He received his doctorate in 1953 from Saarland University. In 1973 he completed his habilitation for medieval and modern history at the University of Stuttgart .

In 1953 he joined the Foreign Office . He was deployed in the diplomatic service in Cairo , Bern and Ankara and belonged to the Eastern European Department of the Foreign Office. After all, he was the German ambassador to South Africa , Ireland and Turkey . He wrote numerous speeches for the then Foreign Minister Walter Scheel . From 1984 to 1988 he headed German delegations to the CSCE , including at the expert meeting on human rights in Ottawa in 1984, for human contacts in Bern in 1986 and at the CSCE follow-up conference in Vienna from 1986 to 1988. In addition to the follow-up conference, the experts' meeting in Ottawa, in which the Eastern European participating states entered into an emerging human rights dialogue with the Western participants, received public attention. His activity in South Africa was determined by the German government's criticism of apartheid and efforts to dismantle it - which is quite controversial in German domestic politics .

At times he also worked as a lecturer at the University of Stuttgart. In his historical accounts, Eickhoff dealt with topics that connect the German past with the history of Italy and with the Ottoman or Byzantine Southeastern Europe.

honors and awards

Fonts

  • Venice, Vienna and the Ottomans - upheaval in Southeastern Europe 1645–1700. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 5th edition 2009, ISBN 978-360894511-9 (comprehensive description of the European Turkish wars in the 17th and 18th centuries)
  • Venice - Late Fireworks: Splendor and Fall of the Republic 1700–1797. 3rd edition, Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2008, ISBN 978-3-608-94145-6 (Cultural history of Venice in the 18th century)
  • Emperor Otto III. - the first millennium and the development of Europe. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-608-94188-6
  • Theophanu and the King - Otto III. and his world. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1996, ISBN 3-608-91798-5
  • Power and Mission - Byzantine World Politics. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 1981, ISBN 3-12-932130-6
  • Friedrich Barbarossa in the Orient. Crusade and death of Friedrich I. Ernst Wasmuth, Tübingen 1977, ISBN 3-8030-1716-5
  • Naval War and Maritime Politics between Islam and the Occident - The Mediterranean Sea under Byzantine and Arab Hegemony (650-1040). De Gruyter, Berlin 1966

literature

  • Andreas Kilb : lagoons and galleys. On the death of the historian Ekkehard Eickhoff. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , May 9, 2019, No. 107, p. 12.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On July 27, 1985, the plenary session of the German Bundestag dealt with the conduct of negotiations in Ottawa in a debate lasting several hours. German Bundestag, stenographic report, 149th session, pp. 11149–11177
  2. ↑ DER SPIEGEL 17/1983
  3. ↑ a b List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
predecessor Office successor
Hans-Joachim Eick German ambassador to Pretoria
1980–1983 		Carl Lahusen
Carl Lahusen German Ambassador in Dublin
1983–1984 		Horst Grabert
Georg Negwer German ambassador in Ankara
1988–1992 		Jürgen Oesterhelt
personal data
SURNAME Eickhoff, Ekkehard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German historian and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 8, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th May 2019
Place of death Bonn