Gerhard Moltmann

Gerhard Moltmann (born September 15, 1912 in Hamburg ; † June 1, 1997 ) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

family

Moltmann was born on September 15, 1912 as the son of Dr. jur. Bodo-Hans Moltmann, who was director of the Hamburg-South American Steamship Company in Hamburg, was born in Hamburg. In August 1941 he married Christina geb. Feine, daughter of the diplomat Gerhart Feine . With her he had a son and a daughter. His second marriage was in May 1951, Olga Elisabeth b. Buckup. From this marriage two sons were born.

Life

After graduating from the Johanneum School of Academics in Hamburg, Gerhard Moltmann studied law at the universities of Lausanne , Montpellier , Berlin and Hamburg from the 1931 summer semester . In 1934 he passed the first state examination in law. After his dissertation under the title "the implementation of international agreements in Germany and England Technology and Security" was written, he was in 1936 at the University of Hamburg Dr. jur. and worked as a legal assistant at the Association of German Shipowners in Hamburg until 1937 .

He was then called up as an attaché in the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and worked there initially in the trade policy department and since spring 1938 in the economic policy department of the Foreign Office. In April 1938 he was transferred to the Embassy in Belgrade , then the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . Shortly before the outbreak of World War II , he joined the NSDAP on August 1, 1939 as part of the policy of harmonization of the Foreign Office . From May 1941, he was placed under the position of the representative of the Foreign Office in Belgrade with the military commander in Serbia, but in June 1941 he was transferred to the Foreign Office in Berlin , where he was employed in the Protocol Department. In November 1941 he was accepted into the foreign service as the legation secretary on probation .

In February 1942 Moltmann was called up for military service, but was released a month later in March due to a serious wound. From September 1942 he was again employed half a day in the protocol department of the Foreign Office in Berlin during his stay in the hospital . From November 1942 until the end of the war he was the legation secretary at the embassy in Bern , Switzerland and - until then, did not occupy a leading position in the foreign service. The end of his probationary period in the foreign service or an appointment to the Legation Council did not take place before the end of the war.

In May 1946 he returned to Germany and was interned in the British internment camp Fallingbostel until March 1947 . In May 1947 he was the British military government in the Central Justice Office of the British zone ( Central Legal Office of the British zone of Germany used) in Hamburg, which a German Justice Ministry met in the British zone. There he was on 2 May 1947 as Government civil servants and was there two and a half years, before taking over in December 1949, Gustav Heinemann in the newly established Ministry of the Interior was appointed, where he in the department press law was used.

After the Federal Foreign Office was re-established on March 15, 1951 in the new federal capital, Bonn , he was reassigned to the Foreign Service in April 1951 and initially called in as a consul at the embassy in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil . There he was promoted to First Class Councilor in September 1952 .

From 1955, he worked for two years at the Foreign Office in Bonn in Department 3 (Countries), where he took over the management of the Central and South America Department . Meanwhile, in June 1956, he was promoted to lecturing councilor .

From 1957 to 1960 he was assigned to the German Embassy in London , United Kingdom as Counselor, First Class. From August 1960 he was again a first class counselor at the embassy in Rio de Janeiro .

In May 1963 he was awarded the Agrément as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kabul , Afghanistan . He worked there until the end of July 1969 when he went to Tunis , Tunisia , as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary . From 1972 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic in Algiers , Algeria . In February 1977, Moltmann retired and until July 1977 wrote freelance reports and memoranda for the Foreign Office at his place of residence in Bad Honnef . In the following years he wrote several articles on the constitutional development of Afghanistan.

Honors

• 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• The constitutional development of Afghanistan 1901-1981: from absolute monarchy to socialist republic. German Orient Institute as part of the German Overseas Institute Foundation, Hamburg 1982
• The constitutional development of Afghanistan from 1901 to 1986 in the yearbook of public law of the present. New Series, Volume 35, 1986, pp. 509-574
• Further constitutional developments in Afghanistan up to 1988 in the Yearbook of Public Law of the Present. New Series, Volume 37, 1988, pp. 741-760
• Carl Rathjens (Ed.): New Research in Afghanistan: Lectures at the 5th Working Conference of the Afghanistan Working Group in Mannheim, 1. – 3. February 1979 .; with contributions by Gerhard Moltmann. Leske + Budrich, 1981 (publications of the German Orient Institute)
• Köller / Moltmann / Meister / Schmidt: Jurisprudence of German courts. Volume I: Decisions from 1945-1948. Central Justice Gazette special publications for the British Zone, 1949
• Technology and securing the execution of international treaties in Germany and England. Dissertation at the University of Hamburg, Niemann & Moschinski, Hamburg 1936

literature

• 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 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Moltmann in the catalog of the German National Library