Hanns Hilgard

Hanns Herbert Hilgard (* 1912 ; † 1984 ) was a German diplomat who was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Luxembourg between 1971 and 1975 .

Life

Hilgard was the son of the ministerial official and insurance manager Eduard Hilgard , who between 1925 and 1944 was a member of the board of the Allianz and Stuttgarter Verein Versicherungs-AG and in 1933 chairman of the Reichsverband der Privatversicherung . He graduated after high school to study law at the August University of Göttingen Georg and graduated there in 1935 his promotion to Doctor of Law with the thesis The lower pari-issue of shares and the quota share from. Through his father, he also became an employee of Allianz Versicherungs-AG and, among other things, was entrusted with building up the insurance business in the Sudetenland in 1939 .

After the end of the Second World War , Hilgard was initially employed in 1946 and then in 1947 as a member of the government and finally until 1952 as a senior government officer in the university department of the Bavarian State Ministry of Education and Culture.In the spring of 1949, he undertook a two-month study trip to the USA to assess the university and culture there University system. In 1952 he moved to the Foreign Office , where he worked as a senior government councilor and head of the science and higher education department of the cultural department. On February 19, 1953 he was first class councilor and later lecturer first class.

In 1962 Hilgard became consul general in Amsterdam . In 1968 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit First Class because of his services in this function . In 1971 he finally succeeded Carl-Heinz Lüders as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Luxembourg and held this diplomatic post until 1975, whereupon Heinz-Werner Meyer-Lohse succeeded him there. During this time, Federal President Gustav Heinemann made a state visit to Luxembourg from November 27 to 29, 1973 , the first ever visit by a German head of state to Luxembourg.

Cancer researcher and physician Peter Hanns Hilgard emerged from his marriage to Elisabeth Hilgard, née Haase .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Gerald D. Feldman: Allianz and the German Insurance Business, 1933-1945 , p. 149, Cambridge University Press, 2001, ISBN 1-1394-3273-7
2. ↑ Gerald D. Feldman: The alliance and the German insurance industry, 1933-1945 , p. 186, CH Beck, 2001, ISBN 3-4064-8255-4
3. ^ Francis R. Nicosia, Jonathan Huener (editor): Business and Industry in Nazi Germany , p. 31, Berghahn Books, 2004, ISBN 1-5718-1653-4
4. ↑ Ellen Latzin: Learning from America ?: the US cultural exchange program for Bavaria and its graduates , pp. 123, 141, 371, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005, ISBN 3-5150-8629-3
5. ↑ Foreign Office register of persons 1953
6. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1953 , p. 1178, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-4867-1831-2
7. ^ German cultural policy abroad: Bonn's long line to Stockholm. The Federal Republic of Germany is not doing enough for its cultural relations with Sweden . In: Die Zeit of June 22, 1962
8. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (cabinet minutes of November 20, 1962)
9. ^ Foreign Office Register of Persons 1966
10. ^ Federal Gazette (June 5, 1968)
11. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1973 , p. 2104, Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-4867-1814-2
12. ↑ La Visite officielle à Luxembourg de Son Excellence Monsieur le Président de la République Fédérale d'Allemagne et de Madame Gustav W. Heinemann  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Grand-Duché de Luxembourg. Ministère d'Etat. Bulletin de documentation)  
13. ↑ Peter Hanns Hilgard in prabook.com