Fritz Caspari (diplomat)

Fritz Wilhelm Eduard Carl Caspari (born March 21, 1914 in Baden , Switzerland , † December 1, 2010 in London ) was a German historian and ambassador .

Life

Fritz Caspari graduated from high school in Heidelberg . He studied from 1933 to 1935 with a grant from the Rhodes Foundation at St. John's College, Oxford University and acquired in 1934 a degree in Economics and Political Science (Diploma of Economics and Political Science), 1936 he was Master of Arts in Modern History.

From 1936 to 1937 he taught at Southwestern Memphis in Memphis , Tennessee. In 1938 he was given a PhD in Hamburg by Emil Wolff , studying the humanistic influence on English political thinking in the 16th century . PhD . In 1939 he went into exile in the USA , where he married Elita Galdós Walker in 1944. From 1939 to 1942 he taught at Scripps College in Claremont (California) . 1943-1946 he was a librarian at the Newberry Library, Chicago. From 1946 to 1954 he taught as an assistant professor at the University of Chicago .

In 1954 Caspari came to the Federal Republic of Germany, entered the foreign service and taught modern English literature and intellectual history as an honorary professor at the University of Cologne. 1954–1958 he headed the United Kingdom, Ireland and Commonwealth department in the Foreign Office. From 1958 to 1963 he was Counselor First Class in London. From 1963 to 1968, he served as Deputy Ambassador and Envoy to the United Nations in New York City . In 1968 Caspari was promoted to ministerial conductor and headed the subdivision IB (UNO, International Organizations, Central and South America, Africa, Asia) in the Political Department I of the Foreign Office, Bonn. 1969–1974 he was Deputy Head of the Office of the Federal President and Ministerial Director. In 1973 he became an Honorary Fellow of St. John's College, Oxford University. From 1974 to 1979 he represented the Federal Republic of Germany in Lisbon as ambassador. The Carnation Revolution and its immediate aftermath fell during his tenure in Portugal .

Awards

• 1958: Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
• 1972: Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
• 1973: Large gold medal with the star for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1974: Large Federal Cross of Merit
• 1978: Grand Cross of the Order of the Infante Dom Henrique
• 1979: Grand Cross of the Order of Christ

Fonts

• Humanism and the social order in Tudor England. University of Chicago Press, Chicago 1954, New York edition: Teachers College Press / Columbia University 1968 (Classics in Education No. 34)
• Humanism and social order in Tudor England. (Translator: Gerhard F. Probst) Francke, Bern, Stuttgart 1988, ISBN 3-317-01616-7

literature

• Wilhelm Sternfeld , Eva Tiedemann: German Exile Literature 1933-1945. A bio bibliography. Schneider, Heidelberg and Darmstadt, 1962

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Caspari in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fritz Caspari , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 34/1979 of August 13, 1979, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely available)
2. ↑ Dr. phil. Emil Wolff, full professor of English language and culture, rector of the University of Hamburg in the years 1923/24 and 1945/47 (* 1879; † February 24, 1952).
3. ↑ Who is who? Volume 14, part 1, Schmidt-Römhild, 1962, p. 204 ( digitized version )
4. ↑ Gabriela Ann Eakin-Thimme: History in Exile. German-speaking historians after 1933. Munich 2005, p. 40 ( digitized version )
5. ^ Rhodes Scholars mourn Professor Sir Fritz Caspari (1914-2010). ( Memento of the original from January 5, 2012 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. December 2, 2010  
6. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Ehrenfried von Holleben	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lisbon 1974–1979	Jesco from Puttkamer