Carl Hellmut Boehncke

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Carl Hellmut Boehncke (born August 18, 1922 in Berlin ) is a German diplomat .

Life

Boehncke is the son of the military medic , bacteriologist and later professor Carl Ernst Boehncke (1874-1929), who was married to Anne Marie Boehncke in his second marriage. He spent most of the Second World War in a boarding school in Switzerland. After studying political science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , he received a scholarship from the French government at the Institute for Political Studies in Paris in 1950/51 . He received his doctorate in 1952 with his dissertation Thoughts on Law, Power, Obedience and Resistance in the Political Theories of the French Wars of Religion . In the 1950s he entered the diplomatic service and, after completing his training as attaché, was employed at the Foreign Office in Bonn . Around 1962 Boehncke was Legation Counselor in Section 700 “Reunification” of the Foreign Office; then he was first as a legation councilor, from September 1966 in the rank of legation councilor 1st class at the commercial agency of the Federal Republic of Germany in Warsaw, headed by Heinrich Böx .

After working in Uruguay and Paraguay , he was German ambassador in Tegucigalpa in Honduras from 1975 to 1979 . The penultimate station of his diplomatic career from 1979 to 1983 was the German Consulate General in Bilbao in Spain; From 1983 to 1987 he was Consul General at the Consulate General in Bordeaux . After his return to Germany, Boehncke, who retired in 1987, lived in Hamburg and since 2004 in a retirement home in Bad Oeynhausen .

His sister was Christiane Boehncke-Sjöberg (1915–2012), who lived as a translator in Sweden.

Individual evidence

  1. Axel C. Hüntelmann: Paul Ehrlich : Life, Research, Economics, Networks . 2010
  2. Wolfgang Schmale: Archeology of basic and human rights in the early modern period: A Franco-German paradigm . 1997, p. 80.
  3. Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1962 , p. 2144.
  4. Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1966 , p. 1735.
  5. Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1967, p. 1267
  6. Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government . German Federal Publishing House, 1975
  7. History of the German missions in Bordeaux in German missions in France ( Memento of the original from February 27, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.allemagne.diplo.de
  8. ^ Peter Steinert: New Home Bad Oeynhausen (2015)