Günter Seeliger

Günter Seeliger , also Günther (born July 26, 1906 in Berlin ; † May 3 or 4, 1966 in Mexico City ), was a German diplomat who was last ambassador to Mexico from 1963 to 1966 .

Life

Seeliger graduated after school to study law and graduated in 1934 his doctorate Dr. jur. at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen with a dissertation with the title The concept of the state and its functions in people and state . Due to a lack of membership in the NSDAP , his entry into the foreign service was refused in 1933 , so that he took up a job in the private sector. From 1938 to 1941 he worked for the Chemical Industry Economic Group and then between 1941 and 1945 at IG Farben .

After the end of the Second World War , Seeliger was head of the economic management department of the provincial administration of Saxony-Anhalt from 1945 to 1946 and then head of the economic staff of the state government of Thuringia from 1946 to 1947 , before he was employed in the administration for the economy of the United Economic Area from 1947 to 1949 . After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany on May 23, 1949, he became an employee of the Federal Ministry of Economics , where he was head of the VA subdivision until 1954 (general questions of foreign trade, import and export, customs policy). In 1954 he moved to the Foreign Office and was there until 1958 as the representative for trade contract negotiations in the trade policy department. In this capacity he headed a delegation for trade relations with Spain in 1954 . He was then seconded to the Commission of the European Economic Community (EEC), where he was Director General for External Relations until 1963. His successor there was Axel Herbst , the previous deputy general director for foreign relations.

In 1963, Seeliger returned to the foreign service and took over the post of ambassador to Mexico as the successor to Kurt-Fritz von Graevenitz . He held this office until his death in 1966 and was then replaced by Carl August Zapp .

publication

• The concept of the state and its functions in people and state , University of Erlangen, Düren 1934

Web links

• Literature by and about Günter Seeliger in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography in the Federal Archives (page accessed on 23 September 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bernhard Löffler: Social market economy and administrative practice: the Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard , Verlag Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-5150-7940-8 , p. 210.
2. ↑ Birgit Aschmann: "Treue Freunde" - ?: West Germany and Spain, 1945 to 1963 , Verlag Franz Steiner Verlag, 1999, p. 276, ISBN 3-5150-7579-8
3. ^ Bernhard Löffler: Social market economy and administrative practice: the Federal Ministry of Economics under Ludwig Erhard , Verlag Franz Steiner Verlag, 2002, ISBN 3-5150-7940-8 , p. 191.
4. ^ EEC: The Togo-Forme . In: Der Spiegel from June 22, 1960

predecessor	Office	successor
Kurt-Fritz von Graevenitz	Ambassador to Mexico 1963–1966	Carl August Zapp