Geoffrey Hunter Baker

Geoffrey Hunter Baker (born August 4, 1916 , † 1999 ) was a British diplomat .

Life and activity

Baker was at the Haberdashers Askes School Hampslead, at the Royal Masonic School Gonville and at Caius College of the University of Cambridge trained.

In 1938 he entered the British diplomatic service: on October 14, 1938, he was appointed vice consul on probation at the British consulate in Hamburg . He remained in this post until the summer of 1939. In this position, he wrote numerous reports to the London Foreign Office on the anti-Semitic measures in the north German metropolis, which were intensifying during the run-up to the war.

From July 28 to September 1, 1939, Baker was employed as a diplomat in Danzig . After the beginning of the Second World War he was sent to Bergen , where he arrived on September 16, 1939. After the German invasion of Norway , he was taken prisoner in April 1940, but was deported as a diplomat.

On March 25, 1942, Baker was appointed British Vice Consul in Basra . On October 24, 1942, he was transferred to Jeddah . On October 14, 1943, he received the rank of 2nd Secretary in the diplomatic service. From November 23, 1945, Baker was used in the London Foreign Office.

On November 2, 1947, Baker was transferred to Rangoon , where he worked until 1951. He then worked as a diplomat in Tehran from 1951 to 1952, before returning to work in the Foreign Office in London from 1953 to 1954. In 1954 he spent a few months at the NATO Defense Coll. active in Paris .

From 1954 to 1956, Baker served as Consul General in Hanoi . He was then a member of the British delegation to the United Nations in New York from 1956 to 1957. From 1957 to 1960 he worked in the London Cabinet Office, and from 1960 to 1966 he worked for the British delegation to the EFTA in Geneva .

From 1966 to 1971 Baker served as Consul General in Munich and then until his retirement in 1974 as Consul General in Zagreb .

literature

• The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book , 1953, p. 164.
• The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's Who , 1984, p. 35.