Franz Pfeffer (diplomat)
Franz Pfeffer (born January 15, 1926 in Koblenz ) is a German lawyer, administrative officer and diplomat .
Life
Franz Pfeffer studied law and history in Germany, France and the USA. In 1953 he was with the work "The action of the United States in Korea and the problem of deciding on war and peace in American constitutional history" at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Bonn to Dr. phil. PhD .
He joined the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1954 and was deployed from 1954 to 1981 in domestic and international posts in New York , Rome and Brussels . Among other things, he worked as head of the “Atlantic Alliance and Defense” department and the West sub-department. From 1981 to 1985 he was Political Director of the Foreign Office .
Franz Pfeffer was ambassador to Warsaw , Poland from 1985 to 1987 , and then as successor to Franz Jochen Schoeller to 1991 ambassador to Paris , France.
In 1991 he became chairman of the supervisory board of Gaz de France Germany . He was a board member of the Franco-German Society for Science and Technology.
In 2006 Pfeffer published with the book “An Office and an Opinion. Ambassador in Poland and France ”is a much-noticed work about his time as an ambassador in the global political upheaval of the 1980 / 1990s, which led to the end of the Cold War , the dissolution of Soviet power and German reunification .
honors and awards
- 1978: Grand Officer of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique
- 1988: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor
- Knight Commander of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (KCMG)
- 1982: Grand Officer (Grande Ufficiale) of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- Commander of the Papal Order of Knights of St. Gregory the Great ( Order of Gregorius )
- Commander of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques
- Various awards in Spain, the Netherlands, Portugal, Austria, Luxembourg and Finland
Fonts
- One office and one opinion. Ambassador to Poland and France. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006, ISBN 3-7973-0984-8 .
literature
- Franz Pfeffer , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 02/1996 from January 1st, 1996, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
Individual evidence
- ^ Paul Stauffer: "Noble craft. Ambassador a. D. Franz Pfeffer looks back ”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ, September 20, 2007
- ↑ “An Office and an Opinion” , Perlentaucher , viewed April 4, 2010
- ^ "Swoon games - book review by Arnulf Baring" , trade journal Internationale Politik (IP) , 11/2007
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pfeffer, Franz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German lawyer, administrative officer and diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 15, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Koblenz |