Franz Josef Bach

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Franz Josef Bach (born February 4, 1917 in Neuss ; † August 3, 2001 in Aachen ) was a German engineer, diplomat and politician ( CDU ).

Life and work

After graduating from high school in 1938, Bach studied mechanical engineering and economics . He finished his studies in 1942 with the examination to become a graduate engineer, then worked until 1945 as a scientific assistant at the Aerodynamic Institute of the Technical University of Aachen (Department of Gas Dynamics ). In 1947 he was with the work pressure distribution measurements on projectiles to Dr.-Ing. PhD .

After the Second World War , Bach was operations manager and business editor at the Aachener Volkszeitung . He studied political science at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville from 1949 , attended the diplomatic school in Speyer in 1950/51 and joined the Foreign Service in 1951 . From 1951 to 1954 he was Legation Secretary and Counselor in Sydney and from 1954 to 1957 Counselor in Washington . In 1957 he became head of the cabinet department for the Foreign Office in the Federal Chancellery, in 1958 he was appointed Ministerialrat and since 1959 he was the personal advisor to Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer . Through a Swiss company, Bach worked as a paid lobbyist for the US arms company Northrop Corporation . He recommended their armaments products to influential members of European governments, but withheld the fact that he was paid by Northrop for them.

Bach was Consul General in Hong Kong from 1961 to 1964 and from August 1964 to July 1968 as the successor to Reinhold von Ungern-Sternberg German Ambassador to Iran .

MP

Bach, who was a member of the CDU, was a member of the German Bundestag from 1969 to 1972 . He represented the constituency of Aachen-Stadt in parliament.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "LOCKHEED, NORTHROP and the FRG." United States Department of State , September 20, 1976, accessed March 28, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Bach, Franz Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, diplomat and politician (CDU), Member of the Bundestag
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Neuss
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 2001
Place of death Aachen