Alexander Török

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Alexander Török (born November 2, 1914 in Vienna , Austria-Hungary ) is a former German ambassador .

Life

Alexander (Sándor) Török's parents were Hungarians. He studied law and political science in Budapest. Török is said to have joined the Pfeilkreuzler party , membership number 603 826, in 1943 and was a member of the nationalist student organization Turul Bajtársi Szövetség , which made the Loránd Eötvös University in Budapestjudenrein ”. Alexander Török held the title of Doctor of Political Science. He joined the Hungarian foreign service in 1939 . From 1940 to 1943 he was accredited as assistant secretary at the Hungarian consulate general in Kronstadt in Romania . From December 1944 to May 1945 he was legation secretary at the Hungarian legation in Berlin .

From 1945 to 1947 he was secretary of the Hungarian Red Cross. In 1948 he came to Berlin. From 1948 to 1950 he was a research assistant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for International Law in Berlin. He was a lecturer at the German University of Politics . Alexander Török was a freelance editor for Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk .

In 1950, Alexander Török received German citizenship and was employed by the Foreign Office . From 1950 to 1953 he was initially at the Consulate General in Amsterdam , after being accredited to the Embassy in The Hague in mid-1951 . During this time he was in charge of the German delegation that negotiated the Luxembourg Agreement on Compensation for National Socialist Victims in Wassenaar with representatives of the Israeli government and the Jewish Claims Conference .

From 1953 to 1956 Alexander Török was employed as a legation councilor in Bonn. From 1956 to 1959 he was Werner Gregor's deputy at the embassy in Tunis . From 1963 to 1965, he headed a section for Economic Relations with Sub-Saharan Africa in the Foreign Ministry . In the summer of 1965, Alexander Török was appointed deputy to Ambassador Rolf Friedemann Pauls in Tel-Aviv , but had to return to Bonn to clarify the allegations against him. After the disciplinary proceedings he had requested against himself ended with a discharge, Török took over the function assigned to him again until the beginning of 1968 and then moved to Cyprus as ambassador. He stayed there until 1973 and was then ambassador to Senegal from 1973 to 1979.

After his retirement, Török lived in Bad Ems .

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Individual evidence

  1. Eckart Conze , Norbert Frei , Peter Hayes, Moshe Zimmermann : The office and the past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic. Verlag Karl Blessing, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , p. 499.
  2. ^ Number 603 826 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 48 , 1965 ( online ).
  3. Jump up for title . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1966, pp. 29 ( online ).
  4. ^ Register of professional matters: Kurt Hensel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1968, p. 126 ( online ).
predecessor Office successor
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lomé / Togo
1959–1963
Gerhard Seeliger
Jens Petersen Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Nicosia / Cyprus
1968–1973
Heinrich Sartorius
Rudolf Young Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Dakar / Senegal
1973–1979
Doretta Maria Loschelder
  1. ^ Register of professional matters: Kurt Hensel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1968, p. 126 ( online ).