Ferdinand Friedensburg (diplomat)

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Ferdinand Friedensburg (born November 15, 1917 in Bern ; † May 14, 2009 in Hilden ) was a German business lawyer and diplomat who was ambassador to Madagascar between 1960 and 1964 .

Life

Family, studies and World War II

Friedensburg was a great-grandson of Ferdinand Friedensburg , who was Lord Mayor of Breslau between 1879 and 1891 . His grandfather Ferdinand Friedensburg was not only President of the Senate at the Reich Insurance Office , but above all a well-known numismatist . His father was the CDU politician Ferdinand Friedensburg , who was Deputy Mayor of Greater Berlin and then West Berlin from December 1946 to February 1951 and, during the Berlin blockade, he was the deputy of the mayor Louise Schroeder , who was ill, for three and a half months .

He himself attended schools in Rosenberg in West Prussia , Zurich , Berlin and Kassel and passed his Abitur in Berlin in 1937 . He then studied law and political science at the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin , the University of Lausanne , the Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald and the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg . During military service in World War II , he was seriously injured as a squad leader of the National Socialist Motor Vehicle Corps (NSKK) and, after completing his legal clerkship, accepted a position as a research assistant at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg. In 1944 he completed his doctorate with a dissertation on the topic of the theater of war. In particular, as an expression of legal space at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin. Friedensburg then switched to the private sector and until 1949 worked as a lawyer in Freiburg im Breisgau , Breslau and Berlin.

Diplomat and business lawyer in the Federal Republic of Germany

After the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, Friedensburg worked in the Federal Ministry of Economics from 1949 to 1950 and joined the Foreign Service in 1950 after passing the diplomatic-consular state examination. First he was Vice Consul at the Embassy in Belgium from 1950 to 1953 and then from 1953 to 1956 at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn .

He was then between July 1956 and July 1960 as Consul First Class Head of the Consulate in Detroit . At the end of his activity there, he was made an honorary citizen .

In July 1960 Friedensburg became the first German ambassador to Madagascar . He held this post until his replacement by Willi Georg Steffen in August 1964. After a subsequent four-week exercise as a reserve officer in the field artillery battalion 295 in Immendingen , he was promoted to lieutenant in the reserve in September 1964 . In October 1964 he became first class counselor at the embassy in Venezuela , where he worked until 1966.

In 1966 Friedensburg resigned from the diplomatic service and switched back to the private sector as director of the Aluminum Industry Association Konstanz (ALIG) before he began specializing in business law in 1968 and henceforth worked as a business lawyer. Since 1969 he has been involved as a lieutenant colonel in the reserve and head of the working group for reserve officers (AKRO) of the Schwarzwald-Baar-Heuberg district group in the Association of Reservists of the German Armed Forces On June 27, 1983, he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class, for his services .

Publications

  • The theater of war. In particular as an expression of legal spatial definition , dissertation, University of Berlin, 1944

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gerhard Keiderling: About Germany's Unity: Ferdinand Friedensburg and the Cold War in Berlin 1945–1952 , 2009, p. 431, ISBN 3-41220-323-8
  2. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (cabinet minutes of June 10, 1960)
  3. ^ The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government , 2003, Volume 13, p. 212, ISBN 3-48656-753-5
  4. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963 , 2001, p. 75, ISBN 3-11095-684-5
  5. ^ Ferdinand Friedensburg . In: Der Spiegel of September 9, 1964
  6. ^ Ferdinand Friedensburg . In: Der Spiegel from September 16, 1964
  7. ↑ Ambassador Friedensburg honored (reservists Report, 1983)
personal data
SURNAME Friedensburg, Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH May 14, 2009
Place of death Hilden