Günther Pawelke

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Günther Pawelke (born November 1, 1900 in Pawlowitz , Upper Silesia , † January 20, 1976 in Ascona ) was a German diplomat and the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cairo .

Life

Until 1945

Günther Pawelke was a cadet until 1917 . A year later he became a student pilot with front-line experience in France; finally studied law in Breslau until 1924 and obtained his doctorate in law. jur. Pawelke attended the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University for two years ; six months at the Paris Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales ; learned Italian and Arabic. Günther Pawelke joined the foreign service as an attaché in 1927; first in the press office of the Reich government, the following year in the political department of the Foreign Office. In the 1930s he was head of the trade department in Kovno . He was legation secretary in Baghdad for 3 years , with Fritz Grobba as envoy ; Pawelke's estate is also a good source for Grobba's thinking in his Baghdad years. Pawelke became head of department in Berlin and consul in Madras . In World War II he served as a pilot; flew 27 "Boelcke" missions against London in the combat squadron . In 1941 he was shot down over Baghdad in the plane of a "Special Association Werner Junck" in front of the ambassador Grobba (who was again active there) and was then no longer fit for use in the war.

Pawelke was a Catholic. He refused to join the NSDAP .

After 1945

After two years after the end of the war, the first lists of the names of 574 civil servants in the bizone were published for possible external use, Pawelke was also there. List I contained, among other things, 57 names with an oriental reference, in addition to him Herbert Blankenhorn , Theo Kordt , Kurt Munzel and Hermann Voigt , who were later to handle the Egyptian request. In mid-1950 Pawelke joined the Federal Foreign Office , which had yet to be founded , where he selected the experts for economic issues. In the following spring, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer had designated him for the embassy in Egypt. From October 1952 to November 1954 he headed the embassy in Cairo and was also envoy to Yemen. When Cairo sought peace with Israel in 1953 , Günther Pawelke, Bonn ambassador, was supposed to mediate.

Honors

Works

  • Yemen, the forbidden country. Econ Verlag, 1959.

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personal data
SURNAME Pawelke, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 1, 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Pawlowitz , Upper Silesia
DATE OF DEATH 20th January 1976
Place of death Ascona