Franz Jochen Schoeller

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Franz-Joachim (Jochen) Philipp Schoeller (born July 24, 1926 in Düsseldorf ; † May 13, 2019 ) was a German diplomat and ambassador .

Life

Schoeller studied law and economics at the Universities of Cologne and Paris . After completing his exams, he was accepted into the higher foreign service from 1955 . Here Schoeller carried out his first foreign assignments at the embassies in France , Italy , Tanzania , Spain and finally in Iran , where he served as permanent representative of the German ambassador in Tehran . From 1973 he was appointed to the protocol staff of the Foreign Office and in 1975 was promoted to chief of protocol in the German Foreign Office . He was characterized by organizational talent, protocol discipline and enormous nerves.

Appointments as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the German embassies in Brasília , Paris and Warsaw followed . As ambassador in Warsaw, Schoeller granted asylum to GDR citizens wishing to leave the country in the second half of 1989 on the premises of the embassy . A few months later, however, in November 1989, was officially Schoeller at his own request "health reasons" in the retirement staggered, which he forestalled a dismissal on the basis of suspicion of involvement in dubious arms deals.

Franz Jochen Schoeller was also an honorary president of the board of EuroDefense , an organization which, together with its partner associations, is working, among other things, on a common European security and defense policy. Schoeller was also a member of the German Society of Members of the French Legion of Honor and the French National Order of Merit eV

Honors

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung from May 25, 2019
  2. ↑ Klaus Manke . In: Der Spiegel . No. 14 , 1975 ( online - short CV).
  3. ↑ Difficult Protocol, In the Silent Eye of a Storm . In: The time . No. 29/1978
  4. ↑ Ambassador, Such Faxes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1989 ( online ).
  5. ↑ Board of Directors EuroDefense ( Memento of the original from February 14, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.eurodefense.de
  6. ^ Members list
predecessor Office successor
Max Graf von Podewils-Dürnitz Head of Protocol in the German Foreign Office
1975–1980 		Hans-Werner Count Finck von Finckenstein
Jörg Kastl Ambassador of the Federal Republic in Brasilia / Brazil
1980–1983 		Walter Gorenflos
Axel Herbst Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Paris / France
1983–1987 		Franz Pfeffer
Franz Pfeffer Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Warsaw / Poland
1987–1989 		Günter Knackstedt
personal data
SURNAME Schoeller, Franz Jochen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schoeller, Franz-Joachim Philipp (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf
DATE OF DEATH May 13, 2019