Eckard Briest
Eckard Briest (born April 21, 1909 in Adlershof ; † December 8, 1992 in Feuchtwangen ) was a German ambassador .
Life
Briest was the son of the doctor Eckard Briest and his wife Lucie geb. Buchholz. He attended a secondary school in Berlin . After graduating from high school , he studied law , political science and oriental languages in Greifswald and Berlin . Since 1927 he was a member of the Corps Pomerania Greifswald . In February 1930 he made the diploma in Chinese languages at the seminar for oriental languages in Berlin. After the legal traineeship on May 25, 1932, he entered the Prussian judicial service and conducted language studies in London and Paris . On May 1, 1933, he became a member of the NSDAP .
Since 1957 with Barbara born Hilgenstock married, he left a daughter and a son.
China and United States
On March 20, 1935, Briest was drafted into the Foreign Service and appointed as an attaché in Department IV (Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, East Asia). From April 1936 to January 1937 he was at the legation in Helsingfors . After passing the diplomatic and consular examination on July 1, 1937, he was ordered to the embassy in China (July 15, 1937) and deployed to the consulates general in Hong Kong (provisional) and Canton . In November 1939 he came to the embassy in Shanghai as secretary of the legation , and a year later to the embassy in Hsingking (acting).
In early 1941 he was Vice Consul at the Consulate General in New York for two months and then at the Consulate in Cleveland until the German consular authorities in the United States were closed in July 1941 .
From July 28, 1941, he was temporarily employed as legation secretary at Information Point III in the Ribbentrop Ministry .
Wehrmacht and captivity
On March 16, 1943, Briest was drafted into the Wehrmacht . On November 13, 1943, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , from which he was released after twelve years, on October 9, 1955, in Konrad Adenauer's homecoming of the ten thousand .
Ireland and South America
As of April 7, 1956, he was back in the Foreign Service, working as an assistant in Department III (France, Benelux, Italy, Switzerland; Middle East and Southeast Asia). Appointed Legation Councilor 1st Class on November 6, 1956 , he went to the Legation in Dublin in May 1957 as Legation Councilor 1st Class .
In January 1960 he became ambassador to Asunción . At the end of 1962, Briest negotiated a visa agreement with Foreign Minister Raúl Sapena Pastor . In 1964, the federal government instructed its ambassador in Paraguay to formally apply for the expulsion of Josef Mengele . Alfredo Stroessner threatened Briest with breaking off diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany .
In November 1965, Briest took up the post of ambassador in Montevideo .
New Zealand and the South Seas
On September 16, 1970, he was appointed ambassador to Wellington . From 1971 he was also Consul General for the Kingdom of Tonga , Consul for the British-American Condominium Canton and Enderbury Islands and for British Samoa, and since 1972 Ambassador for Western Samoa .
On April 30, 1974, Briest was retired. He died in Thürnhofen Castle near Feuchtwangen.
Honors
- 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1974: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
literature
- Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 120 , 679
- ↑ Mengele: No. 293 384 . In: Der Spiegel . No. 32 , 1964, pp. 58-60 ( Online - Aug. 5, 1964 ).
- ↑ Herbert John: Half a pig for the gravedigger . In: Der Spiegel . No. 40 , 1964, pp. 116-122 ( online - 30 September 1964 ).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Julius Borgs-Maciejewski |
German ambassador to Asunción 1960–1965 |
Hubert Krier |
| Otto Eberl |
German ambassador in Montevideo 1966–1970 |
Kurt Luedde-Neurath |
| Kurt Luedde-Neurath |
German ambassador in Wellington 1970–1974 |
Otto Soltmann |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Briest, Eckard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 21, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Adlershof |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 8, 1992 |
| Place of death | Wet cheeks |