Hanns-Christoph Becker from Sothen

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Hanns-Christoph Becker von Sothen (born February 29, 1916 in Kassel , † July 29, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Becker von Sothen last took part in the Second World War as captain until 1945 . In the post-war period he studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität . In 1948 he passed the trainee examination. In the summer of 1949 he became active with Gert Huffmann in the Corps Brunsviga-Munich in Bonn . The Reception was than in January 1950. On 18 April 1951 Attaché in the third course for the higher service of the Foreign Ministry added that he was born on 10 November 1951 philistriert . From November 1952 to October 1957 he was at the German Embassy in Rio de Janeiro , from July 1953 as a Legation Councilor. In 1956 he came to the Curitiba Consulate for eight months . In 1957/58 he was legation counselor in the protocol department of the Foreign Office for eleven months. From September 1958 to June 1960 he was at the Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Economic Community and the European Atomic Energy Community in Brussels. For three years he then represented the head of the Consulate General in Genoa as consul . He was transferred to the embassy in Peru in June 1963 with the official title of Legation Councilor . In April 1964 he was appointed Legation Councilor, First Class, and Deputy Head. From November 1966 he was responsible for economic relations with Central and South America in the Foreign Office (Section III B 4). In June 1970 he was appointed ambassador to Asunción . On December 31, 1974, he retired.

After he died on July 29, 1980 in Rio de Janeiro, he was buried in the cemetery of the Nordleda community in the Lower Saxony district of Cuxhaven . His mother Erika Becker von Sothen (1886–1960) and his younger brother Reinhard-Peter Becker von Sothen (1921–1997) were also buried there.

Honors

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Kruse: Kösener Corpslisten 1996 . 24/376 (= series of the Kösener corps lists  ). Self-published by the Association of Old Corps Students, 1998.
  2. ↑ Short curriculum vitae in tabular form in the Political Archives of the Federal Foreign Office.
  3. ^ Gravestones - Nordleda village cemetery (Land Hadeln). In: grabsteine.genealogy.net. 2011, accessed July 13, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Becker von Sothen, Hanns-Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador to Paraguay
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH kassel
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 1980
Place of death Rio de Janeiro