Günther Harkort

Günther Harkort (second from right), Ministerial Director and Head of the Trade Policy Department in the Foreign Office.

Günther Harkort (born September 1, 1905 in Herdecke ; † October 3, 1986 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat and State Secretary in the Foreign Office (1969–1970).

Life

Harkort studied economics in Heidelberg , Berlin , Kiel and Bonn from 1925 to 1928 and initially worked as a commercial trainee in London and Paris from 1928 to 1929 . From 1934 to 1936 he worked at the Institute for the World Economy in Kiel, where he received his Dr. rer. pole. received his doctorate . He then worked for the Reich Statistical Office in Berlin from 1937 to 1940. In 1940 he moved to the Reich Ministry of Economics as a consultant . After the war, he worked for the Ministry of Economics in Württemberg-Baden from 1946 to 1947 and then until 1949 at the Stuttgart Office for Peace Issues. Between 1949 and 1952 he was a member of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) Washington and the Mutual Security Agency (MSA) Washington. In 1952 he entered the diplomatic service. There he was first ministerial director, then from 1961 Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Communities and from 1965 State Secretary.

He left the estate from his thirty-year career to the Federal Archives.

Awards

1956: Large silver medal of honor with the star for services to the Republic of Austria

Publications (selection)

A concept for an open world economy . In: Intereconomics: review of European economic policy . 1973, No. 4, ISSN 0020-5346 , pp. 110-113.
About the statistical service in today's Germany (PDF; 5.3 MB) . In: Swiss journal of economics and statistics . Vol. 84, 1948, No. 5, ISSN 0303-9692 , pp. 457-467.

literature

Harkort, Günther . In: Wilhelm Kosch: Biographisches Staatshandbuch: Lexicon of Politics, Press and Journalism , continued by Eugen Kuri. Francke, Bern a. a. 1963.
Harkort, Günther . In: Walther Killy , Rudolf Vierhaus (Hrsg.): Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie . Saur, Munich a. a. 1995-1999.
Andrea Wiegeshoff: "We all have to relearn something": on the internationalization of the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945/51 - 1969) . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1257-9 , p. 427

Web links

Commons : Günther Harkort - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

↑ 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	Harkort, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat and State Secretary in the Foreign Office
DATE OF BIRTH	September 1, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH	Herdecke
DATE OF DEATH	3rd October 1986
Place of death	Bonn

[1] List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)