Georg Federer

Georg Federer (born September 8, 1905 in Stuttgart ; † June 24, 1984 ibid) was a German diplomat .

biography

After attending school, he began training as a banker in 1923 , but broke it off in 1924 to study law at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich and the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin . After taking the first state examination in law in 1928 and the second state examination in 1931, he joined the judicial service of the People's State of Württemberg .

In 1935 he entered the diplomatic service as attaché and found after passing the diplomatic-consular exam in 1936 initially use at the diplomatic mission in Riga . In 1938 he moved to the embassy in London and was last employed at the embassy in Bern from 1940 to 1945 , where he was promoted to the embassy council in 1943 . On June 1, 1941, he joined the NSDAP .

After the end of the Second World War he was head of the department for foreign work of the Evangelical Relief Organization from 1945 to 1950 , nothing is known about his denazification . In addition, he was one of the founders of the weekly newspaper " Christ and World " in 1948, the co-editor until 1952 he was in 1951 and at its publishing it as a partner was involved with 16 percent. In addition, in August 1950 he was head of the secretariat of the FRG delegation at the Council of Europe meeting in Strasbourg and between October and December 1950 he was interpreter and secretary of the FRG delegation at the United Nations Conference on Prisoners of War in New York City .

On November 3, 1952, he was recalled to the diplomatic service and was initially an employee of the embassy in Washington, DC , where he was promoted to counselor in 1953 . In 1956 he returned to Bonn and, as a lecturer in the first class, became head of Section 202 ( Germany ). Subsequently, in 1958, he was head of Section 991 ( Parliamentary Section ) for some time .

On October 6, 1958 he was appointed Consul General appointed in New York City and held this post until his appointment as ambassador to Egypt in 1964 as a successor of the retirement came Walter Weber .

After working in the Foreign Office in Bonn and as Deputy President of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP) from 1965 to 1966, he was ambassador to Belgium between 1966 and 1967 as the successor to Herbert Siegfried, who had retired . Most recently he was Head of Department Z (Personnel and Administration) of the Foreign Office from 1967 to 1970 and then retired when he reached the age limit.

literature

• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .

Web links

• Biography in the Federal Archives
• Georg Federer in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
• Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law (online version)