Gottfried Pagenstert
Gottfried Pagenstert (born September 4, 1928 in Crossen an der Oder , † February 1, 2002 in Munich ) was a German diplomat.
Life
Pagenstert, son of the Oberforstrate Joseph P. Pagenstert and his Arnolde geb. Mehrmann, was deployed as an anti-aircraft helper in the last months of the Second World War from 1944 to 1945 . After the end of the war and having passed the Abitur, he began studying forest science at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg , which he continued at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and graduated in 1951 from the Georg-August University in Göttingen as a qualified forest scientist. In Freiburg he became a member of the Catholic student union Bavaria in the cartel association of Catholic German student associations . He then completed postgraduate studies at the Sorbonne , the University of Paris , and obtained a diploma in population development. In 1959 he joined the Foreign Service and was initially an attaché at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn . During this time he was with the work Forestry relations between France and Germany (1789-1870), with special consideration of the Napoleonic Forestry Administration in the Rhineland at the scientific and mathematical faculty of the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg Dr. rer. nat. PhD .
Subsequently, Pagenstert was third secretary between 1962 and 1965 and finally second secretary at the embassy in Spain . He then served from 1965 to 1968 Second Secretary and Permanent Representative at the embassy in Tanzania and acted following the dismissal of Herbert Schröder from March 1967 until the arrival of the new Ambassador Norbert Hebich in September 1967 as charge d'affaires . After working as secretary of the foreign policy group of the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag from 1968 to 1971, he was ambassador to Honduras from 1972 to 1975 . After briefly serving as consul general in Lourenço Marques in what is now Mozambique in 1975 , he completed a course at the NATO Defense College (NDC) in Rome in 1976 .
Pagenstert then acted as ambassador to Cyprus between 1976 and 1979 and then from 1976 to 1980 as head of a department at the Foreign Office. He was then consul general in Sydney from 1980 to 1986 and as such represented the interests of the Federal Republic of Germany in New South Wales and Queensland . During this time he was also the representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1982 at the fifth session of the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in Sydney. During his work as ambassador to Malta between 1986 and 1991, he was particularly committed to the German-Maltese Circle. Most recently, he was ambassador to Iceland from June 12, 1991 until he retired on November 2, 1993 .
In addition to his membership in the KV, Pagenstert had been an honorary member of the FAV Rheno-Guestfalia (Hann. Münden) Göttingen in the CV and MC since 1951 . He was also a member of the Rotary Club of Malta. After his retirement he campaigned intensively for German-Polish international understanding. In 1994, near his place of birth in the now Polish Słubice , the former Frankfurt district on the right of the Oder, he founded a GmbH for international understanding, from which a meeting place for German-Polish student meetings emerged.
From his on December 31, 1966 born with Elena Salvato, a Roman woman, had three children.
Honors
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (January 29, 1979)
- Order of Honduras and Spain
literature
- Siegfried Koß in Siegfried Koß, Wolfgang Löhr (Hrsg.): Biographisches Lexikon des KV. 7th part (= Revocatio historiae. Volume 9). Akadpress, Essen 2010, ISBN 978-3-939413-12-7 , p. 113 f.
- F. Preuschhoff KVer in Malta in Academic monthly sheets 1989 issue 10
Web links
- Entry in prabool.com
- Up forever untold
Individual evidence
- ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1966 , register of persons, p. 37
- ↑ 1967 - Tome I: 1st Janv.-1st Juillet (2008)
- ↑ Office of the Federal President
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pagenstert, Gottfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pagenstert, Gottfried Werner (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 4, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crossing the Oder |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 1, 2002 |
| Place of death | Munich |