Günther Schödel

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Günther Schödel (born August 5, 1922 in Berlin-Schöneberg ; † December 22, 2015 in Berchtesgaden ) was an ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Life

Günther Schödel's parents had built a house in Bischofswiesen in the 1920s . He was committed to military service by the Wehrmacht before his 18th birthday . After the end of the war and imprisonment, he completed law and economics studies. He then applied to the Foreign Office , where shortly before the new diplomatic service for Germany had been opened, and immediately got a post.

Günther Schödel represented the Federal Republic of Germany abroad for 35 years, lived with his wife, daughter of a German consul in China , and five children in Bangkok and Jakarta , in Rio de Janeiro , China and in India . He retired in 1987. From then on, the center of his life was his parents' house in Bischofswiesen.

In 1980, at the age of 58, then the ambassador to Beijing , he saved the life of an injured boy by removing him from the water and then getting medical help while his wife tended to the wounded child.

From 1989 to the end, Günther Schödel was a lecturer for international politics at the Munich School of Politics , especially for economics and politics in Asia .

For his professional work he was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In 2013 he was made an honorary member of the Society for Foreign Policy in Munich, of which he had been a member since 1988, then for many years on its board and since 2004 on the board of trustees .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary notice. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 29, 2015, accessed on January 1, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b c d Berchtesgadener Anzeiger online on December 29, 2015, Asia expert with organizational urge
  3. ↑ Munzinger Biographie - Munzinger Online , Günther Schödel, German diplomat
  4. ^ Bonner Rundschau online on June 20, 2012, German history was also written
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel 40/1980, Personalalien, Günther Schödel
  6. ↑ a b Traunsteiner Tagblatt , Passing on knowledge to younger people on December 23, 2013 (accessed on January 5, 2016)
  7. ↑ Katholisches Bildungswerk Berchtesgadener Land 2013, Program 2013, p. 72
predecessor Office successor
Kurt Mueller German Ambassador to Jakarta (Indonesia)
1977–1980 		Hans-Joachim Hallier
Erwin Wickert German ambassador in Beijing (PR China)
1980–1984 		By fisherman
Günther Gerlach German Ambassador to New Delhi (India)
1984–1987 		Konrad Seitz
personal data
SURNAME Schödel, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg , German Empire
DATE OF DEATH December 22, 2015
Place of death Berchtesgaden , Bavaria , Germany