Friedrich Janz

Friedrich Janz (born October 7, 1898 in Mülhausen , Reichsland Alsace-Lorraine , † January 25, 1964 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Janz studied law after attending grammar school and began after the first and second state examinations and the doctorate to become a Dr. iur. a job as an employee at the mixed arbitration tribunals in Paris and Rome .

On July 1, 1927, he entered the diplomatic service and subsequently worked in the Foreign Office and at the diplomatic missions in Paris, Warsaw , Poznan , Belgrade and Rome. Most recently, he was a member of the Legation Council in the legal department of the Foreign Office in Berlin until 1945 . On April 1, 1941, he joined the NSDAP . Nothing is known about its denazification .

After the end of the Second World War , he became an employee of the finance ministry of South Baden in Freiburg im Breisgau in 1947 , where he made a name for himself as an expert on questions of constitutional law in the negotiations between the individual countries for the formation of a south-western state , and an advocate of the so-called "Old Baden Solution "was. At the same time he was also a trustee of the Oberrheinische Bank between 1947 and 1950 , which operated as one of the ten regional successor institutions of the broken Deutsche Bank from 1948 to 1952.

In December 1950 he was promoted to ministerial director and as such was head of the Baden State Chancellery until 1952 and thus a close employee of President Leo Wohleb .

In 1952 he returned to the diplomatic service and was initially deputy head of the legal department of the Foreign Office. In 1953 he moved to the Federal Chancellery as ministerial director and successor to Hans Globke , where he was head of the personnel department until 1959.

In 1959 he returned to the Foreign Office, where he succeeded Hans Berger as ministerial director and head of the legal department.

Most recently, he was ambassador to Austria as the successor to Carl-Hermann Mueller-Graaf . He held until his transfer in this position retired holds 1,963th He was then followed by the previous ambassador to the Netherlands, Josef Löns .

Honors

• 1952: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1956: Commander with Star of the Order of the Falcons
• 1956: Honorary doctorate from the University of Messina
• 1957: Grand Cross of the Order of the Holy Pope New Year's Eve
• 1957: Honorary Senator of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 2: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: G – K. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2005, ISBN 3-506-71841-X .

Web links

• Biography in "The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government" of the Federal Archives
• Friedrich Janz in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data after entry of Friedrich Janz in the personal database of the state bibliography of Baden-Württemberg
2. ↑ Denominations. Who in whose place. In: Der Spiegel . No. 1/1954
3. ↑ German ambassadors in Austria since 1871 ( memento of the original from January 24, 2010 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. 
4. ↑ Opera Ball. The bottom thousand celebrate above. Peter Bruges at the Vienna Opera Ball. In: Der Spiegel. No. 9/1963
5. ↑ AAS 50 (1958), n.3, p. 133.