Gisela Rheker

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Gisela Rheker (born June 24, 1923 in Lintfort , Moers district ; † October 1, 2016 ) was a German diplomat who was ambassador to Yugoslavia between 1984 and 1988 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Gisela Rheker studied German , English and history and completed her doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn on July 19, 1948 with a dissertation with the title Word and Concept of Idea in Goethe . Subsequently, in 1949 she began working as managing director of the British Information Center Die Brücke in Düsseldorf .

In 1952, Gisela Rheker joined the Foreign Service and, after completing her attaché training in Speyer, found various positions at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and at the embassies in Italy and Ireland . In 1960 she became a Legation Counselor and the Department Eastern Europe (II A 5) in the Foreign Office, which was responsible for all socialist states in Eastern and Southeastern Europe with the exception of the Soviet Union and in which she dealt with various questions in relations with these states. On September 28, 1963, for example, she traveled to Bucharest with Walther Freiherr Marschall von Bieberstein for final discussions about setting up a commercial agency in Romania . In April 1964, for example, she took part in talks about establishing diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia alongside Kurt Luedde-Neurath , who was then head of the Eastern Europe Department, Rudolf Jestaedt , Dedo von Schenck and Renate Finke-Osiander . As Legation Councilor, First Class, she was later deputy head of the Eastern Europe Department (II A 5), among other things, she dealt with the German-Yugoslav Mixture Commission, which held talks on April 9, 1965 between the head of the Eastern Department of the Foreign Office, Franz Krapf , and the Ambassador of Yugoslavia to the Federal Republic of Germany, Milan Lalović.

After the establishment of diplomatic relations with Israel , Gisela Rheker became a first-class legation councilor at the embassy in Tel Aviv in 1965 and worked there as one of the employees of the first ambassador to Israel , Rolf Pauls , to develop cultural relations with Israel.

In 1974 she became permanent representative of the Ambassador to the People's Republic of Poland , Hans Hellmuth Ruete , as First Class Counselor , and on August 1, 1974, she was appointed Ambassador .

Most recently Gisela Rheker succeeded Horst Grabert in 1984 , who in turn became ambassador to Ireland , ambassador to the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SFRY) and held this post until she retired in 1988, after which she was succeeded by Hansjörg Eiff .

Gisela Rheker, who lived in Düsseldorf, was among other things Vice President and until 1999 a member of the Presidium of the German Institute for Poland (DPI) and a member of the Southeast Europe Society (SOG).

Publications

  • Word and concept of the idea in Goethe , dissertation, University of Bonn, 1949
  • German-Yugoslav relations , in: Südosteuropa-Mitteilungen , 1986, issue 1, p. 3 ff.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Rainer Blasius (editor): Von Adenauer zu Erhard: Studies on Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1963 , Oldenbourg Verlag, 1994, ISBN 3-486-70309-9
  2. ↑ Georg Herbstritt: Entzweite Freunde: Romania, the Securitate and the GDR State Security 1950 to 1989 , Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2016, p. 145, ISBN 3-647-35122-9
  3. ↑ Ivan Jakubec: Loopholes in the "Iron Curtain" , 2006, p. 44, ISBN 3-515-08527-0
  4. ↑ Hans Günter Hockerts, Claudia Moisel, Tobias Winstel (editors): Limits of reparation: Compensation for victims of Nazi persecution in Western and Eastern Europe 1945-2000 , Wallstein Verlag, 2006, p. 644, ISBN 3-835-30005-9
  5. ↑ 1966 . Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 1997, p. 1767, ISBN 3-486-71821-5
  6. ↑ 1975 , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2006, p. 1135, ISBN 3-486-71812-6
  7. ↑ 1974 , Verlag Walter de Gruyter, 2005, p. 1716, ISBN 3-486-71813-4
  8. ^ Report of the German Poland Institute 1999 to 2001 , pp. 9, 53
  9. ↑ RUNDBRIEF 2013 ( Memento of the original dated November 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the Southeast Europe Society @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sogde.eu
  10. ^ Proof of publication in the portal for the social sciences
predecessor Office successor
Horst Grabert German Ambassador to Belgrade
1984–1988 		Hansjörg Eiff
personal data
SURNAME Rheker, Gisela
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Lintfort , district of Moers
DATE OF DEATH October 1, 2016