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Friedrich Buch (born January 11, 1906 in Gonaïves , Haiti ; † November 8, 1992 ) was a German local politician and diplomat who was, among other things, mayor of Wetzlar and ambassador to Denmark and Switzerland .

Life

After graduating from high school , Buch studied law and, after completing his studies, worked as a lawyer and as a legal advisor in the private sector from 1933 to 1945 with the first and second state examinations .

After the end of the Second World War he was first treasurer and then in October 1945 mayor of Wetzlar. In 1948, Buch, a member of the CDU , moved to the administration of the State of Hesse , became head of the municipal department in the Hessian Ministry of the Interior and was promoted to Ministerialrat in 1949 .

After Buch joined the Foreign Service in November 1952 , he was first head of division at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn , before he was consul general in Sydney and then in Marseille . In October 1959 he became head of the human resources sub-department in the human resources and administration department of the Foreign Office and, as such , was promoted to ministerial director a few months later .

In September 1963, Buch succeeded Hans Berger as ambassador to Denmark and held this position until he was replaced by Klaus Simon in October 1966. In this function, since October 1965, he has also headed an investigative commission in disciplinary proceedings against Alexander Török , the then permanent representative of the ambassador to Israel . The native of Hungary Török had the Hungarian historian Jeno Levai accused of being a member of the anti-Semitic Hungarian student organization Turul been had to be admitted to the fascist Arrow Cross Party advertised and run his doctorate wrongly. However, the disciplinary commission headed by Buch came to the conclusion in July 1966 that the allegations made were unjustified.

He himself then received his accreditation as ambassador to Switzerland , where he succeeded Wolfgang von Welck . After he took early retirement in 1970 after four years in office , Josef Löns followed him as ambassador to Switzerland.

Buch was one of 25 senior top diplomats who were prematurely retired by Federal Foreign Minister Walter Scheel shortly after the social-liberal coalition took office . Buch then put together with the ambassadors Friedrich Wilhelm Wehrstedt , Hans Ulrich von Schweinitz , Franz Ferring , Oswald Freiherr von Richthofen , counselor Hans-Christian Halter and the consuls general Wilhelm Kopf , Werner Brückmann , Richard Kunisch and Hans Puhl represented by the well-known lawyer Konrad Redeker Legal action before the Cologne Administrative Court because they considered their early dismissal to be inadmissible as this was due to the dismantling of the age pyramid in the Foreign Office. In October 1973 the Higher Administrative Court for the State of North Rhine-Westphalia decided that eight of the diplomats should not have been allowed to retire in order to improve the age structure in the foreign service.

Awards

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gravestone in the cemetery in Staufen im Breisgau
  2. ↑ TÖRÖK: battle for title . In: Der Spiegel (No. 30/1966)
  3. ↑ AA-DISCHARGES: Protests innocence . In: Der Spiegel (No. 16/1971)
  4. ↑ DIPLOMATS: 25 in a package . In: Der Spiegel (No. 42/1973)
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Book, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German local politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Gonaives , Haiti
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1992