Erich Strätling

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Erich Strätling (born October 23, 1918 in Essen , † September 16, 2003 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Strätling studied law at the University of Bonn and was a soldier in World War II . After his release from Soviet captivity , he worked in the Parliamentary Council and later in the Legal Committee of the German Bundestag .

He was the German ambassador

During his tenure as Ambassador to Romania in 1967 diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the People's Republic of Romania were established.

In 1977, when Colonia Dignidad came under surveillance by the UN and Amnesty International and serious human rights violations were denounced, Strätling was commissioned by the Foreign Office to investigate the allegations and to get an idea of ​​the situation. After a several-day visit to the Colonia in their leader Paul Schaefer reported Strätling, he may give his word of honor that the allegations (including torture and child abuse ) are totally unfounded. He had been in close friendly contact with Schäfer before. Consular matters, such as passport extensions or life certificates for the pension, are said to have been dealt with in generous collective proceedings. After the end of the military dictatorship under General Augusto Pinochet in 1990, however, all allegations turned out to be true.

In April 2016, at an event on the film Colonia Dignidad - There is no turning back , Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that the Federal Foreign Office and the embassy staff at the time had made serious mistakes: “From the 1960s to the 1980s, German diplomats looked the other way at best - at least clearly too little done to protect their compatriots in this colony. "

After his retirement, Strätling was Vice President of the Research Institute of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) in Bonn in the 1980s .

Federal President Walter Scheel honored him in 1979 with the Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Erich Strätling was a committed member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. from 1933 until his death. Ascania Bonn in the Cartell Association (CV) .

Fonts

  • Erich Strätling, Helmut Koch: How is the Bundestag elected? German Federal Publishing House, 1953
  • Erich Strätling: How is a federal law created? 10th edition, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1967
  • Erich Strätling: The Parliamentary Council 1948-1949. With the “Parliamentary Elegy” by Carlo Schmid. Neske, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7885-0321-1 , ISBN 3-7885-0319-X
  • Willy Brandt (author), Erich Straetling (author), Helmut Herles (author), Günter Neske (editor): Forty Years of the German Bundestag. Neske, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-7885-0317-3
  • Erich Strätling: The Parliamentary Council 1948-49 to 1989. - Forty years of the state constitution of North Rhine-Westphalia. Catalog of the state exhibition, Düsseldorf 1990

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang Kaes : Adaptation: "Colonia Dignidad" - The Devil from Troisdorf . In: General-Anzeiger . February 7, 2016
  2. ↑ "Colonia Dignidad" - Where the terror began , report "Die Zeit" from February 25, 2016, accessed on April 24, 2020
  3. ^ Sect settlement in Chile: Steinmeier confesses German mistakes in Colonia Dignidad . In: Der Tagesspiegel . April 27, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Strätling, Erich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat, ambassador and civil servant
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH September 16, 2003
Place of death Bonn