Christian Feit
Christian Feit (born October 21, 1921 in Breslau ; † September 10, 2017 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat .
Life
After serving in the war, he studied law in Hamburg from 1945 and was promoted to Dr. jur. PhD. He was one of the co-founders of the Hamburger Junge Union . In 1951 he joined the Foreign Service. He was 1952-1954 in the US vice consul in New York, Detroit and Houston. After working as an economic attache in Valparaiso in Chile in 1954/55, he worked several times in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1955–1958; 1963–1968; 1974–1983). In Madrid he was first secretary of the embassy. From 1969 and 1974 he headed the political department of the German embassy in Paris . From 1983 to 1986 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brussels .
He was married to Gabriele von Below since 1950 and has four children. Feit was a legal knight of the Order of St. John . He has received several awards at home and abroad.
Spiegel Affair
From 1958 to 1963 Christian Feit was legation counselor and head of the legal department of the German embassy in Madrid. Feit accompanied the military attaché Achim Oster as legal advisor when Oster was supposed to arrange for Conrad Ahlers to be arrested. He then looked after the Ahlers until they left for Germany.
honors and awards
- 1979: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
- Leopold Order (form unknown)
- Commander of the Legion of Honor
- Order of Command of the House of Grimaldi
- Order of Command "Isabel la Catolica"
memoirs
- Christian Feit, footnotes to our history 1921–2001, Norderstedt 2006, ISBN 3-8334-5406-7
estate
The estate of Christian Feit is located in the Federal Archives in Koblenz (stock N 1699).
Web links
- Literature by and about Christian Feit in the catalog of the German National Library
- Review on footnotes to our story ( Memento of October 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Article in Spiegel from November 7, 1962
Individual evidence
- ↑ Christian Feit obituary , FAZ , September 16, 2017
- ^ The International Who's who: 1990-91 , Europa Publications Limited 1990, p. 491
- ↑ Klaus Wiegrefe : The SPIEGEL Affair , SPIEGEL-Verlag 2014
- ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB).
- ↑ Feit estate on Nachlassdatenbank.de
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Horst Blomeyer-Bartenstein |
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brussels 1983–1986 |
Renate Finke-Osiander |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Feit, Christian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 21, 1921 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 10th September 2017 |
| Place of death | Bonn |