Franz Keil (diplomat)
Franz M. Keil (born August 5, 1929 in Cologne ; † September 12, 2018 ) was a German diplomat .
Life
Franz Keil studied law and received his doctorate in 1954 at the University of Cologne with a thesis on the personal exemption of professional associations from corporate and wealth tax as a Doctor iuris utriusque. He then studied as a post-doctoral student (postdoc) at the Portuguese University of Coimbra , one of the oldest universities in Europe. After his second state legal examination and aptitude test for the higher foreign service, he joined the foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany.
Franz Keil worked for the Foreign Office (AA) in Japan , Brazil , Romania , Portugal and the People's Republic of China . Among other things, he was head of the department for South Asia, Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania and head of the department for Central and Eastern Europe with the states of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. Keil was Asia Representative (Ambassador) of the Federal Foreign Office and as such responsible for all Asian countries east of Iran, Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific. As the responsible department director, he was for many years responsible for the global public relations work of the foreign department of the press and information office of the federal government.
From 1991 until his retirement in 1994, Keil was the German ambassador for Australia and the Republic of Nauru, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, based in Canberra. Since then he worked as a consultant and lawyer until his death and was among other things the representative of the Free State of Saxony at a German-Australian economic conference in Melbourne and the representative of the Thuringian Minister of Economics for the commitment of entrepreneurs there in Asia. Keil was a board member of the Association of Portuguese Entrepreneurs in Germany (VPU) and was honored with the Commander's Cross of the Portuguese Order of Merit .
Franz Keil was married and had three daughters with his wife. Since 1953 he was a member of the Catholic student association, Academic Association Rheinstein zu Cologne in the CV and from 1963 also the AV Edo-Rhenania Tokyo , both in the Cartellverband of the Catholic German student associations . Keil was buried on September 28, 2018 in the Bernadottestrasse cemetery in Hamburg.
Web links
- Literature by and about Franz Keil in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ Franz Keil obituary notice , FAZ , September 22, 2018
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Schauer |
Ambassador to Australia 1991–1994 |
Klaus Zeller |
| Hans Schauer |
Ambassador to Nauru, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu 1991–1994 |
Klaus Zeller |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wedge, Franz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keil, Franz M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 5, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cologne |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 12, 2018 |