Axel Herbst

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Otto-Axel Herbst (born October 9, 1918 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ; † April 3, 2016 ) was a German diplomat who was, among other things, Permanent Representative to the United Nations Office in Geneva from 1973 to 1976 and Ambassador to Geneva from 1976 to 1983 France was.

Life

After graduating from high school, Herbst began his military service at the beginning of the Second World War and became a prisoner of war in the course of the war . After his return from captivity, he began studying law and economics at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , the University of Cologne and the Westphalian Wilhelms University and also attended courses at the Hague Academy for International Law and the Law School of the Law Society in London . After he had passed his first state examination in 1948 , he received his doctorate in 1949 and then in 1951 the second state examination. In 1950 he began his professional career as a legal employee of the Steel Trustees Association in Düsseldorf .

He then joined the foreign service in 1951 and was one of the first diplomats in the newly established Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany. In the following years he worked at the embassies in Italy , India and then from 1953 to 1957 in the United States and was promoted to Legation Council in 1953 . After his return from the USA he was a consultant for the USA in the Department for North America of the Foreign Office between 1957 and 1960 .

After his promotion to Lecturing Councilor First Class in 1960, he worked for the European Commission as Deputy Director General and in 1961 as Deputy Secretary General of the Directorate General of the European Commission for External Relations. In 1964, as successor to Günter Seeliger, he finally became head of the European Commission's Directorate-General for External Relations and held this position until November 1968. In this role, he dealt mainly with questions relating to the expansion of the European Economic Community (EEC) and also led negotiations Association such as the EEC - Turkey Association Agreement of September 12, 1963 and the conclusion of trade agreements between the EEC and third countries .

In 1969 he returned to the Foreign Office in Bonn, where he became head of the economics department. In 1973 he was appointed to succeed Swidbert Schnippenkötter as Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva and worked there until he was replaced by Carl-Werner Sanne in 1976.

As early as 1976, he was appointed ambassador to France , where he succeeded Sigismund von Braun , who was retiring . During his tenure, he also met with French union officials such as André Bergeron , General Secretary of the Confédération générale du travail-Force ouvrière (CGT-FO). Herbst also held the office of ambassador in Paris until his own retirement and his replacement by Franz Jochen Schoeller in November 1983.

honors and awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Axel Herbst obituary , FAZ , April 9, 2016
  2. ^ List of German UN ambassadors
  3. ↑ Ilse Dorothee Pautsch: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1976. Volume 2, Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-486-58040-X , p. 1845
  4. ↑ Otto Eiselsberg: Erlebte Geschichte 1917–1997. Böhlau, Vienna [a. a.] 1997, ISBN 3-205-98682-2 , p. 373 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Ambassador as a museum guide. The special relationship of diplomats to culture - New York and Brussels: The tough bone mills. In: The time. April 14, 1978
  6. ↑ 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
Günther Seeliger Director General of the European Commission for Foreign Relations
1964–1968 		...
Swidbert Schnippenkötter Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva
1973–1976 		Carl-Werner Sanne
Sigismund Freiherr von Braun Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to France
1976–1983 		Franz Jochen Schoeller
personal data
SURNAME Autumn, Axel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herbst, Otto-Axel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr
DATE OF DEATH 3rd April 2016