Hans-Georg Sachs
Hans-Georg Sachs (born July 9, 1911 in Langenöls , Lower Silesia , † July 10, 1975 , had an accident while climbing a mountain in the Karawanken , Carinthia ) was a German administrative lawyer and ministerial official. From 1973 to 1975 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office.
Life
Sachs attended the Ernst-Abbe-Gymnasium (Eisenach) . After graduating from high school , he enrolled at the University of Hamburg for law . In 1931 he became active in the Pépinière-Corps Franconia Hamburg. He proved himself as a consenior . In March 1932 he joined the National Socialist German Workers' Party . In the summer semester of the same year he moved to the Albertus University in Königsberg , where he also joined the Corps Masovia . After the great state examination in law and the doctorate to Dr. iur. In 1937/38 he was an assessor in Berlin. In 1942 he moved from the Reich Ministry of Economics to the Foreign Office . After five months as a non-commissioned officer in the Africa Corps , he was taken prisoner by the Allies . He was able to return to Berlin in the same year and was deployed to the German Federal Foreign Office in occupied Italy. Then the Americans took him into automatic arrest on the Hohenasperg .
In 1949 he became head of the Marshall Plan office for the French zone of occupation in Baden-Baden . "Approved" by Chancellor Adenauer , he returned to the Foreign Office in 1952 and devoted himself to European economic integration. After several years at the German Embassy in Paris, he was in 1958 Secretary , 1961 Assistant Secretary of State and in 1963 director of the newly established Department of trade and development policy at the Foreign Office. He was Chairman of the Trade Committee of the OECD and Coordinator of Western Countries at the World Trade Conference . After eight years as ambassador to the European Community in Brussels , he became State Secretary at the Foreign Office in June 1973. After he had received the shoulder ribbon for the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a star in January 1975 , he was killed by falling rocks on a mountain tour in the Karawanken Mountains . He was the first State Secretary in the Foreign Office after the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, who died during his active service. At his funeral on July 15, 1975 in Bad Godesberg, the then Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher spoke :
“With his high intelligence, his hard work, his political vision, his high sense of duty, the strength of his personality and noble disposition, he worked tirelessly for the good of the Federal Republic of Germany and for this state, and especially for its contribution to Europe Unification work, great and lasting merits earned. "
Sachs spoke English, French, Spanish and Italian, played tennis and was a passionate pianist and musician. In 1960 he received the ribbon of the Corps Palaiomarchia .
See also
literature
- International Biographical Archive 37/1975 from September 1, 1975 ( Munzinger archive online)
- H. Lippold, R. Bätge: Obituary for Hans-Georg Sachs . Corpszeitung der Altmärker-Masuren 57, Kiel 1975, pp. 1276–1278
- Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 , p. 2f
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sachs, Hans-Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German administrative lawyer, ministerial official and ambassador |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Langenöls , Lower Silesia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 10, 1975 |
| Place of death | Karawanken , Carinthia |