Charles Herman Breecher

Charles Herman Breecher (born July 26, 1916 as Karl Hermann Brecher in Vienna , Austria-Hungary , † December 2, 1983 in Washington, DC ) was an Austrian - American diplomat.

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Charles Herman Breecher was born on July 26, 1916 as the son of Siegfried and Elisabeth M. Brecher (nee Friedländer) and was baptized with the name Karl Hermann. From around 1933 to 1938 he studied law at the University of Vienna and emigrated to Belgium in 1939 after the annexation of Austria . From 1939 to 1940 he held a leading position in a US organization before he was able to come to the United States in 1940. After further studies at DePaul University in Chicago , Illinois , from 1940 to 1941, he worked from 1940 to 1942 as an auditor for a real estate company.

After receiving US citizenship in 1942, Brecher, who has since had his name changed to Charles Herman Breecher , was drafted into the United States Army for military service. In this he served until the end of the Second World War in 1945 and then worked again as an auditor until 1946. That year he also married Renee Senel. He then worked as assistant to a comptroller from 1946 to 1947 , before he was employed as Assistant Chief of Section at the Office of Military Government for Germany (US) , or OMGUS for short, in 1948/49 . In 1949 he moved to Bonn as a transport specialist in the Industrial Division of the Eco-Affairs office of the US High Commissioner for Germany (HICOG) . From 1950 to 1953 he was employed as a transport attaché at the above-mentioned institution , before taking the certified public accountant (CPA) exams in 1954 . From this year he rose to the position of deputy head of department and attaché at HICOG and at the same time worked at the US embassy in Bonn ( Schloss Deichmannsaue ).

He continued his law studies again at La Salle Extension University (LSEU) in Chicago, graduating in 1957 with an LL.B. from. He then worked from 1957 to 1959 as a program officer in the operations department of the US State Department in Tunisia . In 1959 he was appointed Director of the North Africa Department and Chief Human Resources Officer for Africa-Europe Programs of the International Cooperation Administration in Washington, DC , and was active in this position until the Agency was dissolved in 1961. After serving as economic advisor to the US delegation to NATO and the European organization in Paris in 1962 , he held the same position from 1963 to 1966 at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development , also in Paris. At the same time he was an attaché at the US embassy in 1965, and from 1962 to 1966 Special Assistan of the US delegation for economic issues of NATO. From 1967 he was head of the East Asian office of the Office of Development and Planning and from 1971 program officer at the United States Agency for International Development , in which the International Cooperation Administration was merged in 1961. During his service in the International Cooperation Administration, Breecher received the Superior Honor Award in 1960 .

Breecher died on December 2, 1983 at the age of 67 in Washington, DC and was buried three days later in Arlington National Cemetery .

literature

• Werner Röder (Hrsg.): Biographical handbook of German-speaking economic emigration after 1933–1945 , Volume 1: Politics, economy, public life. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston, 1980, ISBN 978-3-598-11420-5 , p. 90

Web links

• Charles Herman Breecher in the database of Find a Grave (English)