Ulrich Scheske

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Hans Ulrich Scheske (born March 21, 1915 in Berlin ; † October 3, 1994 in Dornbirn ) was a German diplomat who was ambassador to Thailand between 1967 and 1971 and ambassador to Pakistan from 1973 to 1979 .

Life

After graduating from high school, Scheske began studying at the Reformrealgymnasium Tempelhof in 1933 and in 1933 also joined the Schutzstaffel under membership number 216977. After completing his studies and doctorate , he was a government trainee. After 1942 he headed the "State Security" subdivision in the Luftwaffe Research Office , an intelligence service of the Third Reich. In February 1945 he was awarded the honorary sheet clasp of the Army and Waffen SS .

After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany, Scheske entered the higher-level foreign service and found employment at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and at various missions abroad. In 1963, as a lecturer in the first class of the Legation Council , he was head of the NATO, WEU (Military Affairs) and Defense Department in the Political Department West 2 in the Foreign Office.

On April 6, 1967, Scheske was appointed ambassador to Thailand as the successor to Hans-Ulrich von Schweinitz and took up this position on July 31, 1967. In this function he was temporarily appointed head of the German embassy in June 1968 after the head of the embassy in Saigon, Baron Hasso Rüdt von Collenberg , was shot in the street by members of the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War South Vietnam and was in mortal danger, but was saved by Ulrich Brinkhoff , who was awarded the Federal Medal of Merit. He held the post of ambassador to Thailand until 1971.

After a renewed assignment in the Foreign Office, Scheske succeeded Norbert Berger as ambassador to Pakistan in 1973 . Together with his military attaché, he tried to appease the demonstrators in front of the US embassy during the hostage-taking of Tehran, at risk of death. He held this office of ambassador until he retired in 1980 and was then replaced by Klaus Terfloth .

literature

  • Ulrich Brinkhoff: Nightmares on the Saigon River, South Vietnam 1965-1968. agenda Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89688-516-6 , 243 pages with 120 illustrations. (with foreword by Walter Scheel)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1967, p. 684 restricted preview in the Google book search
  2. ↑ Askanische Blätter: Mitteilungen d. Askanische Schule, December 1994 ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / digital.zlb.de
  3. ↑ a b Askanische Blätter , December 1968, p. 6 f.
  4. ^ Nazis in the FRG 18 , in: Nazis Braunbuch , online version, p. 357
  5. ↑ David Irving: The Empire is listening. Goering's "Research Office": The Third Reich's most secret intelligence service. Arndt, Kiel 1989, p. 323 .
  6. ↑ Horst Scheibert: The carrier of the Honor Roll Clasp of the Army and Waffen-SS / The support squadron of honor clasp of the Navy / The owner of Honor Cup for special service in the air war . Podzun-Pallas Verlag, Friedberg 1986, ISBN 3-7909-0283-7 .
  7. ↑ Horst Möller, Gregor Schöllgen, Andreas Wirsching: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1966 , 1997, p. 1770, ISBN 3-48671-821-5
  8. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (Cabinet minutes of April 12, 1967 in the Federal Archives )
  9. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1968 , 1999, p. 1700, ISBN 3-48656-411-0
  10. ↑ Horst Möller, Gregor Schöllgen, Andreas Wirsching: Files on Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1976 , 2007, p. 1772, ISBN 3-48671-811-8
  11. ↑ Is Bonn abandoning America? . In: Die Zeit of December 7, 1979
predecessor Office successor
Hans-Ulrich von Schweinitz German ambassador in Bangkok
1962–1967 		Ulrich von Rhamm
Norbert Berger German ambassador in Islamabad
1973–1979 		Klaus Terfloth
personal data
SURNAME Scheske, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scheske, Hans Ulrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 3rd October 1994
Place of death Dornbirn