Ernst Friedrich Jung

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Ernst Friedrich Jung (born September 25, 1922 in Celle ; † December 1, 2016 in Bad Godesberg ) was a German diplomat. He was ambassador to Nigeria and Hungary and assistant secretary general to NATO.

Life

Ernst Friedrich Jung was the second son of the judge Friedrich Walter Jung . He attended high schools in Hildesheim and Berlin-Zehlendorf . After graduating from high school, he studied law and political science at the Georg-August University in Göttingen , the Silesian Friedrich Wilhelms University in Breslau , the University of Lausanne and Harvard University (Center for International Affairs). In 1954 he became active in the Corps Bremensia . He was dismissed from the Reich Labor Service and military service because of an injury. He completed his studies as Dr. iur. at the University of Göttingen in 1950. In the same year he passed the state examination. Jung was married to Brigitta Müller von Blumencron and lived in Bonn . The couple has three children.

Jung joined the Foreign Service in 1950 with assignments in Bonn, the diplomatic missions in Luxembourg , London and Tokyo and the EEC Commission in Brussels. Jung took on his first ambassadorial post from 1971 to 1975 in Lagos ( Nigeria ). Then he became Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs at NATO in Brussels until 1978 . From 1978 to 1981 he moved from Brussels to Vienna as head of the delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the troop reduction negotiations (MBFR) . He then worked at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn as a representative for North-South negotiations (including head of delegation at the 3rd UN Conference on the Law of the Sea and the Antarctic negotiations. During the negotiations, he visited the South Pole ). He took on his second ambassadorial post from 1984 to 1987 in Budapest ( Hungary ). He then retired.

Until 1989 he was a Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London and an employee of the Science and Politics Foundation in Irschenhausen, and in 1991 he was Executive Secretary of the first meeting of the Council of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe in Berlin.

Honors

Publications

  • On the origin of the war waiver article in the Japanese constitution of 1946 In: Festschrift für Otto Riese , ed. by Bernhard Aubin u. a., Karlsruhe 1964
  • The prohibition of the first use of nuclear weapons In: Außenpolitik , Hamburg 1964, p. 768 ff.
  • Arms control - 25 years later In: In the service of Germany and the law , Festschrift für Wilhelm Grewe, Baden-Baden 1981
  • The Antarctic in international politics In: Außenpolitik , Hamburg 1984, pp. 80 ff.
  • Conventional “arms control” in Europe in the light of the MBFR experiences. In: Foreign Policy. 2/1988.
  • Europe - tired of integration? Labeling instead of touching the national substance. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung. No. 101, 3rd / 4th May 1997.
  • Europe 40 years later. In: Foreign Policy. 3/1997.
  • Genscher's "Memories" in retrospect. In: Historical-Political Messages. Archive for Christian Democratic Politics . Cologne 1998.
  • Franz Hilliger (pseudonym): wanted heirs. Berlin 2009.

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice Ernst Friedrich Jung , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December 6, 2016
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 39 , 1330
personal data
SURNAME Jung, Ernst Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Celle
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2016
Place of death bad Godesberg