Georg Ripken

Georg Ripken (born May 10, 1900 in Wilhelmshaven ; † October 26, 1962 in Bonn ) was a German politician and diplomat . For three years he was a member of the German Bundestag for the German Party (DP) and later for the CDU .

Life

Georg Ripken attended secondary school and then studied history as well as law and political science at the University of Kiel . He received his doctorate there in 1925 with the thesis "The effect of the means of transport on grain, millet and legume prices in India, with special consideration of North India" .

From 1924 to 1926 he was General Secretary of the German League for the League of Nations and then from 1927 to 1945 as an attaché in the foreign service. There he was entrusted with the regions in the Middle and Far East. In 1929 he passed the major diplomatic - consular state examination. He was then used in Italy , Indonesia , Malaya and Afghanistan . On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . Most recently, from 1936 to 1945, he held the position of deputy head of the trade policy department of the Foreign Office in Berlin . After the end of the war he was interned in 1945 but released again in 1946. Nothing is known about its denazification .

Georg Ripken moved to Hamburg and worked there as a business consultant from 1946 to 1950. He then worked between 1951 and 1958 as a senior ministerial official. In this function he was State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Affairs of the Federal Council from 1954 . He was entrusted with the task of establishing diplomatic relations with Saudi Arabia .

He was a member of the German Bundestag from 1958 to 1961. He entered parliament on March 10, 1958 for the resigned MP Franz Blücher via the Lower Saxony state list of the DP. On July 1, 1960, he left the DP and joined the CDU / CSU parliamentary group on September 20 of the same year .

From May 1958 he was a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, from June 1958 to January 1959 the Committee on Labor, and from January 1959 to October 1960 the Committee on Transport, Post and Telecommunications. In the general election in 1961 he was not elected to parliament again.

After leaving the Bundestag, he was the Federal Government Commissioner at the OECD in Paris .

Literature / sources

• Handbook of the German Bundestag, Material No. 127 of the Scientific Services of the German Bundestag from April 1998 , p. 178, ISSN  0344-9130 (PDF; 1.20 MB).
• Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (eds.), Bruno Jahn (collaborators): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag. 1949-2002. Vol. 2: N-Z. Attachment. KG Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-23782-0 , p. 692.
• Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 3: Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: L – R. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-71842-6 .