Friedrich Kroneck

Friedrich Johann Kroneck (born July 16, 1931 in Eggenfelden ; † December 30, 2015 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat who was the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Albania between 1987 and 1991 .

Life

After High School Kroneck graduated in law at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and laid there on February 23, 1959 his promotion to Dr. jur. with a dissertation on the subject of immunity of federal states under international law before foreign courts . During his studies he joined the Catholic Bavarian student association KBSt.V. Rhaetia at.

He then joined the Foreign Service and, after completing his career test as legation secretary , was a member of the German delegation from March to April 1961 at a conference of the United Nations in Vienna on diplomatic relations and immunity. Then he was a member of the German delegation to observe the Eichmann trial against Adolf Eichmann before the district court in Jerusalem .

It was then used in the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and in various missions abroad . Having Consul General in Melbourne was, he returned in 1981 as Senior Legation Counselor First Class in the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry and issued during this period along with Thomas Oppermann , a commemorative publication to mark the seventieth birthday of former longtime Permanent Representative to the NATO , Wilhelm Grewe , out .

In the mid-1980s, Kroneck dealt in the Foreign Office with the takeover of refugees from the GDR , for example in February 1984 with the case of "Sonja Berg", a niece of the then chairman of the GDR's Council of Ministers , Willi Stoph .

In 1987 he became the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Albania and held this office for four years until he was replaced by Claus Vollers in 1991. During this time the German Embassy was established in Tirana and on October 21, 1988 the agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania on technical cooperation was signed ( Federal Law Gazette 2005 II p. 902 ). In July 1990, 3,200 Albanians sought refuge on the premises of the embassy that had just been occupied. After two weeks, through the mediation of the UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, they were able to leave the country via the port of Durrës .

He then became an envoy at the Embassy in the United Kingdom .

Fonts

• The international law immunity of federal states before foreign courts , dissertation, University of Munich, 1959
• In the service of Germany and the law: Festschrift for Wilhelm G. Grewe on his 70th birthday on October 16, 1981 , co-editor Thomas Oppermann, Baden-Baden 1981, ISBN 3-7890-0711-0

Individual evidence

1. ^ United Nations Conference on Diplomatic Intercourse and Immunities. Vienna, 1961 (PDF; 10.5 MB)
2. ^ Federal government observers at the Eichmann trial . In: 143rd cabinet meeting on March 22, 1961 ( Federal Archives )
3. ^ Klaus Wiegrefe : Contemporary history: Triumph of justice . In: Der Spiegel from March 28, 2011 (online version)
4. ^ Centenary Day, Royal Exhibition Buildings , October 1980
5. ^ Table of contents, Festschrift Grewe
6. ^ Escape and departure: The German embassy in Prague. The case of Ingrid Berg, b. Stoph ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ ^{a b} Werner Bartels: The Beginnings of the German Embassy Tirana. (PDF) (No longer available online.) Federal Foreign Office , archived from the original on March 22, 2011 ; Retrieved on May 4, 2013 (PDF file, 9.65 kB). 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.  
8. ^ Court Circular . In: The Independent of July 29, 1993