Felician Prill

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Felician Antonius Karl Prill (born June 9, 1904 in Konitz (now Chojnice), Konitz district, Marienwerder district, West Prussia province; † July 14, 1981 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat who served as the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany between 1955 and 1960 in Ireland , from 1960 to 1966 Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission to the Council of Europe , from 1966 to 1967 Ambassador to Norway and most recently from 1967 to 1969 again Ambassador to Ireland. He later acted from 1972 to 1978 as the federal spokesman for the Landsmannschaft West Prussia .

Life

Prill, son of the farmer and office manager Ferdinand Prill and his wife Martha Prill, graduated from high school in Sopot in 1922 and then began studying law and political science at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena , the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the University to Cologne . After passing the first law degree in 1928 his was carried Promotion to Doctor of Laws at the University of Jena before he completed in 1929 his second state examination. He then worked as a court assessor in Gdansk from 1929 to 1931 and then, at the age of only 27, became head of the administration of the Danziger Höhe district in 1931 . He held this position until 1933 and was then a government advisor to the Danzig financial administration until 1940 . He then worked between 1940 and 1941 as a government councilor and consultant at the Magdeburg tax office before he was drafted into the Air Force as a soldier during the Second World War . In the following years he was taken prisoner of war, from which he was released in 1946.

Subsequently, in 1946, Prill became head of the United Tax Offices in Magdeburg as senior government councilor, but left the Soviet occupation zone (SBZ) in 1948 and went to West Germany . There he became general adviser for the entire pay system in the financial administration of the United Economic Area in 1948 . After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany on May 23, 1949, he was taken over as government director in the Federal Ministry of Finance in Bonn and promoted to Ministerialrat in 1950 . In the following years he became a member of the German delegation in the negotiations for a European Defense Community (EVG) as well as a member of the advisory staff of Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . After the failure of the negotiations for the EVG in 1954, he moved to the newly created Foreign Office in 1955 as a ministerial conductor .

Shortly afterwards, in 1956, Prill succeeded Hermann Katzenberger as envoy and later ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ireland and held this post until he was replaced by Adolph Reifferscheidt in 1960, while he himself took over from Reifferscheidt as ambassador and head of the permanent representation at the Council of Europe . He stayed in this position until 1966 and was then replaced by Heinrich Northe . He then replaced Heinrich Böx as ambassador to Norway in 1966 . After just under a year, however, he handed over this post to Richard Balken in 1967 , while he was again ambassador to Ireland as the successor to Heinz Trützschler von Falkenstein . He held this diplomatic post until he retired in 1969, after which he was replaced by Karl Overbeck .

Shortly before his retirement in 1969, Prill became a member of the federal board of the Landsmannschaft West Prussia , whose federal spokesman he became in 1972 as the successor to Ernst Coelle . He held this post until 1978 and was then replaced by the former Brigadier General Odo Ratza . He was also involved in the Society's Board of Trustees in preparation for the Nicolaus Copernicus Year 1973.

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  1. ↑ Communication on the appointment of foreign missions (cabinet minutes of September 12, 1956)
  2. ↑ VATICAN AMBASSADOR: Fit for Rome . In: Der Spiegel of October 24, 1956
  3. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (cabinet minutes of June 10, 1960)
  4. ↑ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (cabinet minutes of October 12, 1966)
  5. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (cabinet minutes of September 5, 1967)
personal data
SURNAME Prill, Felician
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Prill, Felician Antonius Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 9, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Konitz , Pomerania Province
DATE OF DEATH July 14, 1981
Place of death Bonn