Günther Scholl

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Günther Scholl (born January 11, 1909 in Stettin ; † March 5, 1999 in Munich ) was a German diplomat who was ambassador to Pakistan and Denmark , among other things .

Life

Scholl was born in Szczecin as the son of the owner of a construction company. When his father died in 1927, his mother continued the company. With a view to the company, Scholl first studied civil engineering after graduating from high school . When the construction company had to be stopped in 1931, Scholl switched to studying law . In 1935 he passed the first state examination in law. After the subsequent legal clerkship, he passed the second state examination in 1938 and was then employed as a research assistant in the Foreign Office from 1939 to 1945 . Scholl had been a member of the SA since 1933, on May 1, 1937 he joined the NSDAP . Nothing is known about its denazification .

After the end of the Second World War , he worked for a mining company from 1945 to 1950. In 1950 he went to the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

In 1952, Scholl moved to the Foreign Office as senior government councilor . Here he was employed between 1954 and 1956 as first class counselor at the embassy in Yugoslavia . After a subsequent activity at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn , he became first class counselor at the embassy in the Soviet Union , where he was the ambassador's permanent representative from 1962 to 1963 .

In 1963 he succeeded Heinz Trützschler von Falkenstein as ambassador to Pakistan and held this office until he was replaced by Norbert Berger in January 1970.

In September 1970, Scholl succeeded Klaus Simon as ambassador to Denmark . He held this position until his early retirement and his replacement by Werner Ahrens in 1973.

Even after his retirement he was involved in foreign policy issues and was a member of the German Society for Eastern European Studies (DGO).

His brother Jürgen Scholl also became an ambassador.

Awards

literature

  • Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 .
  • Eckhard Wendt: Stettiner Lebensbilder (= publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania . Series V, Volume 40). Böhlau, Cologne / Weimar / Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-412-09404-8 , p. 425.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Society for Eastern European Customers  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Circular 1/1999; PDF file; 63 kB)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / dl.dgo.dgo-online.org  
  2. ^ The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government 1963 , 2006, p. 192, ISBN 3486579185
  3. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (cabinet minutes of April 4, 1963)
  4. ↑ Former ambassadors  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Homepage of the Embassy in Pakistan)@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.pakistan.diplo.de  
personal data
SURNAME Scholl, Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Szczecin
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 1999
Place of death Munich