Hans-Georg Wieck

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Hans-Georg Wieck (born March 28, 1928 in Hamburg ) is a former German diplomat and former President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND).

Life

Wieck, son of John Wieck and his wife Elisabeth, née Hall, began studying history and philosophy at the University of Hamburg after graduating from Ernst-Schlee-Gymnasium in 1947 , which he completed in 1952. In 1953 he received his doctorate with the dissertation The emergence of the Christian Democratic Union and the re-establishment of the Center Party 1945–1947 .

He then entered the higher-level foreign service as a civil servant in 1954 and was employed at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and various missions abroad. After he was first class Legation Councilor , on August 31, 1966 he became Legation Councilor and deputy head of the "Reunification" section of the Foreign Office and on November 7, 1966 Legation Councilor in the office of Federal Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder .

On November 13, 1966, he moved to the Federal Ministry of Defense and was head of the office of the now Federal Defense Minister Gerhard Schröder between 1967 and 1969 and then between July 1970 and February 1974, as Ministerial Director, head of the planning staff of the Federal Minister of Defense .

In 1974 he took over from Georg von Lilienfeld as ambassador to Iran and stayed there until 1977, after which Gerhard Ritzel became his successor there. He himself then succeeded Ulrich Sahm as ambassador to the Soviet Union and held this post until he was replaced by Andreas Meyer-Landrut in 1980. He then took over from Rolf Friedemann Pauls as permanent representative to NATO in Brussels , which he held until 1985 held, whereupon Niels Hansen became his successor.

On September 4, 1985 Wieck replaced Heribert Hellenbroich, who had resigned after only four weeks in office, as President of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND) and held this office until he was replaced by Konrad Porzner on October 3, 1990.

Most recently he succeeded Konrad Seitz as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in India in 1990 and remained in this position until he retired in 1993, whereupon Frank Elbe succeeded him.

After leaving the civil service , Wieck was chairman of the Indo-German Society from 1996 to September 2008 . and from 1998 to 2001 head of the OSCE Advisory and Observer Group in Minsk , Belarus . In addition, he was chairman of the advisory board of the Intelligence Service in Germany Association (GKND).

Hans-Georg Wieck is one of the critics of the regulation introduced by the former Federal Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer , not to honor former diplomats who were NSDAP members with an obituary in the Federal Foreign Office's newsletter after their death .

His marriage to Anneliese Dietz had four children.

Honors

publication

  • The emergence of the Christian-Democratic Union and the re-establishment of the Center Party 1945–1947 , dissertation University of Hamburg, 1953

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1966 , register of persons, p. 51
  2. ^ Wieck at the German-Indian Society
predecessor Office successor
Theo summer Head of the planning staff in the Federal Ministry of Defense
1970–1974
Vice Admiral Rolf Steinhaus
Georg von Lilienfeld Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tehran
1974–1977
Gerhard Ritzel
Rolf Friedemann Pauls Permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the NATO Council
1980–1985
Niels Hansen