Berthold von Pfetten-Arnbach

Karl Berthold Marquard Askan Maximilian Otto Franz Joseph Freiherr von Pfetten-Arnbach (born June 11, 1934 in Regensburg ) is a former German diplomat .

Career

After an apprenticeship at Bayerische Hypobank in 1952/53 , Berthold von Pfetten-Arnbach completed a degree in economics at the University of Munich in 1957 . This was followed by two years as a trainee in Geneva at Bank Darier & Cie . From 1959 he worked for the Foreign Office in Bonn . In 1962 von Pfetten-Arnbach moved to the German Consulate General in Karachi , Pakistan, as second secretary . Again four years later he was in the German Embassy in Uganda Kampala first secretary. In 1969 he became an advisor at the German embassy in Paris before returning to the Foreign Office in 1972.

In 1975 Berthold von Pfetten-Arnbach bought a former farm on the Heuwinkl in Iffeldorf , which is his German residence. In the same year he attended as a Fellow to Harvard University until 1976 in which he German Embassy Washington was working as a consultant. After two years (1978–1980) as an advisor in Jakarta , Indonesia , he returned to the Foreign Office again, where he stayed for ten years as a lecturer in the first class of the Legation . From 1990 to 1995 he was the German ambassador to Thailand , then from 1995 to 1999 in Finland . He then returned to Germany.

From 2001 to 2011 von Pfetten-Arnbach was the district representative of the Malteser Aid Service in the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district .

Private

Berthold von Pfetten-Arnbach married Gerty Wilmar on October 24, 1959; they have two daughters.

Honors

• Knight of the French Legion of Honor
• White Elephant Order
• 1986: Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1989: Grand Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique
• 2015: Decoration of honor for services to the Malteser relief service of the Garmisch-Partenkirchen district

Works

• 2001: Scenes from children from untidy years - 1943–1949 . Langewiesche-Brandt, Munich. ISBN 978-3-7846-1223-2 .
• 2014: Local and long-distance travel from him to her . Doyen Verlag, Saarbrücken. ISBN 978-3-8417-0076-6 .

Web link

• Entry in prabook.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ Karl Berthold Marquard Askan Maximilian Otto Franz Joseph von Pfetten-Arnbach . In: geneall.net . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Karl Berthold Von Pfetten-Arnbach . In: prabook.com . Retrieved September 29, 2017.
3. ^ Kornelia Bukovec, Karl Exner: Iffeldorf. History of a village . Ed .: Municipality of Iffeldorf. Self-published, Iffeldorf 1994, p. 55.
4. ↑ Dirk Koch: "So many intelligent Indians" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1981, p. 61 ( online ).
5. ↑ Seppo Hentilä: neutral between the two German states. Finland and Germany in the Cold War . Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2010. ISBN 978-3-8305-2355-0 , p. 243 ( limited preview in Google book search).
6. ↑ Celebration for the new district representative of the Malteser Aid Service Garmisch-Partenkirchen . In: Merkur.de , October 13, 2011. Retrieved September 29, 2017.
7. ^ LRA Garmisch-Partenkirchen: Honoring Baron von Pfetten-Arnbach . In: bayregio.de , August 11, 2015. Retrieved September 29, 2017.

predecessor	Office	successor
Bernd Oldenkott	German Ambassador to Bangkok (Thailand) 1990–1995	Hans-Dieter Siemes
Hans Peter Bazing	German Ambassador in Helsinki (Finland) 1995–1999	Henning von Wistinghausen