Carl-Werner Sanne

Carl-Werner Sanne

Carl-Werner Sanne (born October 13, 1923 in Stuttgart ; † July 4, 1981 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Sanne was the son of the professional officer Werner Sanne , who was Lieutenant General during the German attack on Stalingrad during the Second World War and was the commander of the 100th Jäger Division (Wehrmacht) , and because of his father's transfers he attended schools in Rostock , Ludwigslust , Paderborn , Bad Kissingen and Wins . After graduating from high school , he began his military service in the Navy in 1940 and served there until the end of the Second World War.

After the end of the war, he began training as a businessman at Siemens & Halske in 1945 and at the same time completed a degree in business administration at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he completed in 1951 with a degree in business administration.

After completing his studies, he joined the newly established Foreign Office in 1951 , making him one of the first diplomats in the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany and working at the headquarters in Bonn until 1953. In 1953 he received his doctorate from LMU Munich. oec. publ. with a dissertation on the issue of rationalization problems in the current economy with special consideration of German industry .

He then worked at the embassy in France , and then from 1956 to 1959 at the permanent mission to NATO in Paris , before he returned to the Foreign Office. He then worked for a diplomatic mission abroad from 1963 to 1966 and then worked on the planning staff of the Foreign Office. In 1969 he moved together with Egon Bahr from there to the Federal Chancellery , where he among the chancellors Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt as Senior Legation Counselor was head of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Germany policy. In this function he played a key role in the basic treaty concluded with the German Democratic Republic on December 21, 1972 . He had previously participated in negotiations with Poland and thus contributed to the initiation of the New Ostpolitik .

When Schmidt wanted to appoint Sanne as State Secretary for Germany and Ostpolitik in the Federal Chancellery after the 1976 Bundestag election , this failed due to resistance from coalition partner FDP , as Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher saw the competence and influence of the Foreign Office at risk.

Instead, Sanne succeeded Axel Herbst as Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in Geneva in 1976 and held this position until he was replaced by Per Fischer in 1978.

He then became State Secretary for the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation in February 1978 and held this office until his death. Shortly before, in 1978, the intention was given up to appoint the recognized expert on German political issues as the successor to Günter Gaus as head of the permanent representation in the GDR, as Sanne had been suffering from cancer since 1976 . Instead, Gaus should succeed Sanne as permanent representative at the UN in Geneva.

Web links

• Literature by and about Carl-Werner Sanne in the catalog of the German National Library
• Carl-Werner Sanne in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Died: Carl-Werner Sanne. In: Spiegel. No. 29/1981, page 156.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Federal Chancellery: Note on a treaty between the FRG and Poland , Bonn, June 9, 1970.
2. ^ List of German UN ambassadors. ( Memento of the original from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on dgvn.de 
3. ↑ Panorama: Post poker about Gauss succession. in Spiegel No. 14/1978, page 20.