Dieter Sattler

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Dieter Sattler

Dieter Sattler (born February 2, 1906 in Munich ; † November 9, 1968 in Rome ) was a German architect who was active in cultural policy and foreign cultural policy . He was ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Holy See from 1966 to 1968.

family

Dieter Sattler was the son of the architect Carl Sattler and the grandson of the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand . From 1933 until his death he was with Maria Clara Sattler geb. Schiedges (1910–1973) married. They had six children, including Christoph Sattler (* 1938), also an architect and co-founder of the Hilmer & Sattler und Albrecht architectural office , as well as Martin Sattler , professor of law in Heidelberg, and Stephan Sattler (* 1947), journalist and former head of the cultural departments at FOCUS. Dieter Sattler was the father-in-law of the Bavarian historian Dieter Albrecht .

Life

Dieter Sattler graduated from the Wilhelmsgymnasium in Munich in 1924 . He studied architecture, later also economics, at the TH München in 1929 with an architecture diploma and worked as an architect in Munich and Berlin from 1929 to 1939. After his doctorate as Dr.-Ing. In 1931 he completed various longer stays abroad in the following years, during which he learned fluent English , French and Italian . In 1940 he was drafted into the Wehrmacht , but after participating in the French campaign, at the end of 1940 he was posted to military construction work in Linz and Munich.

In 1945 he was politically unencumbered by the administration of the American zone of occupation with architectural tasks for the reconstruction of the buildings on Munich's Königsplatz . Between 1945 and 1947 he was employed by the US military government's Munich Central Collecting Point . He was also active as chairman of the professional association of architects and civil engineers in Munich.

In 1946 he joined the newly founded Christian Social Union and was a member of the state executive from 1947 to 1951. In 1947 he became State Secretary for the Fine Arts in the Bavarian State Ministry for Education and Culture . He held this office in the Ehard I and Ehard II cabinets until the end of 1950 and was instrumental in founding the Institute for Contemporary History , the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts and the Central Institute for Art History . From 1950 to 1952 he was President of the German Stage Association and in 1951 and 1952 Chairman of the Broadcasting Council of Bavarian Radio .

In July 1952 he moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a ministerial director and until 1959 went to the embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rome as a cultural advisor with the rank of counselor. When the cultural-political disputes between the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany came to a head, in 1959 Sattler became head of the cultural department in the Foreign Office as ministerial director and helped set up German schools abroad and the Goethe Institute .

From 1966 until his death in 1968 Dieter Sattler was ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Holy See .

Like Adolf von Hildebrand, Dieter Sattler was buried in the Oberföhringer cemetery. The burial took place on November 14, 1968 near St. Lorenz . A final solemn ministry of the soul was held on November 18, 1968 in Santa Maria dell'Anima , the church of the German-speaking Catholic community in Rome.

Honors

literature

  • Dieter Sattler (Dietrich Sattler), Adolf von Hildebrand and architecture . Doctoral thesis submitted on November 8th and accepted on November 11th, 1930, printed by Autographische Anstalt Joseph Buchner, Munich 1932
  • Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government: Lasting services to the German reputation abroad. Condolences on the death of the German ambassador to the Vatican Dr. Dieter Sattler , German Federal Publishing House 1968
  • Ulrike Stoll: Cultural Policy as a Profession. Dieter Sattler (1906–1968) in Munich, Bonn and Rome . Munich 2005. ISBN 3506713132

Web links

Commons : Dieter Sattler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ingrid Metzger-Buddenberg: Carl Jacob Burckhardt , S. Fischer 1986, p. 640
  2. ^ Annual report on the Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Munich. ZDB ID 12448436 , 1923/24
  3. ↑ a b Rudolf Vierhaus: DBE , Walter de Gruyter 2007, p. 709
  4. ^ Died: Dieter Sattler , Der Spiegel 47/1968
  5. ↑ Trauerbrief Munich 13 / 11.14.1968.
predecessor Office successor
Josef Jansen (diplomat) German ambassador to the Holy See
1966–1968 		Hans Wolf Jaeschke
personal data
SURNAME Sattler, Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German architect and ambassador to the Holy See
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1968
Place of death Rome