Hans-Werner Count Finck von Finckenstein

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Hans-Werner Bernhard Karl Count Finck von Finckenstein (born April 6, 1926 in Frankfurt (Oder) ; † August 7, 2012 ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Hans-Werner Count Finck von Finckenstein was born as the youngest son of Barbara von Wulffen and Ernst-Wilhelm Count Finck von Finckenstein (1884–1932) in the Mark Brandenburg. His older brother Karl-Wilhelm (1923-2010) was a banker in Essen and Düsseldorf and in 1992 bought back the headquarters of the Alt Madlitz family. He himself inherited the Ziebingen manor from his grandfather, which was on the other side of the Oder, therefore belonged to Poland after the war and burned down in the 1970s.

Hans-Werner Count Finck von Finckenstein grew up in Alt-Madlitz. He attended the boarding school in Neubeu Castle until it was closed by the Nazis in 1940. He then attended the Hermann Lietz School in Haubinda , was a flak helper , was drafted into the Reich Labor Service in 1942 and became a tank grenadier . In 1945 the Red Army arrested him as a Fahnenjunker NCO at Küstrin as a prisoner of war. He escaped from captivity, found his home occupied by Soviet troops and made his way to Holstein, where in 1946 he met his mother and sister Ursula, who had fled Alt-Madlitz to Holstein . There he made his Abitur at the Johann Heinrich Voss Gymnasium in Eutin. Finckenstein then studied history , literature and philosophy in Mainz . From 1948 he wrote as a journalist for the Rheinisch-Pfalzische Rundschau in the French zone . He later worked for the Mainzer Allgemeine Zeitung . In the 1960s Finckenstein worked as a diplomatic correspondent for the daily newspaper DIE WELT .

His subject was and remained politics. In 1965 Finckenstein wrote the book "Adenauer. A portrait" with photos by Will McBride (Josef Keller Verlag) and wrote an afterword to Heinz Schewe's work "The purrs of Nikita C. " . In 1968, together with Gerhard Jahn , he edited selected speeches and writings from 1930–1967 by Herbert Wehner under the title “Change and Probation” . Eugen Gerstenmaier claimed that Finckenstein had brought literature back into journalism . As the successor to Eckart Hachfeld ("Amadeus goes through the country") he wrote political-satirical poems under the name "Bonnifaz" in the "WELT".

In 1968, Count Hans-Werner Finck von Finckenstein joined the Foreign Service temporarily, as he had increasingly distanced himself from Axel Springer's political line. After years as a press attaché in London (1968–1972), he went to Prague from 1972 to 1976 as deputy head of the German trade mission at the time. In 1973 he finally joined the Foreign Office. From 1976 to 1979 he was Consul General in Boston.

From 1980 Finckenstein returned to Bonn, initially as deputy to Franz Jochen Schoeller ; He replaced him in the autumn of 1980 as head of the protocol of the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany . From 1984 to 1987 he was ambassador in Buenos Aires, Argentina, then until 1991 as the successor to Heinz Dittmann ambassador in Mexico.

Hans-Werner Graf Finck von Finckenstein was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, the Order of Gregorius of the Vatican, the French Legion d'Honneur, as well as numerous other orders from around the world

Awards

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Parte in FAZ, August 11, 2012, p. 7
  2. ↑ The count has asked - journalist, diplomat, now chief of protocol in Bonn: Hans-Werner von Finckenstein. In: The time . July 18, 1980
  3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
predecessor Office successor
Paul Verbeek Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Buenos Aires
1984–1987 		Herbert Limmer
personal data
SURNAME Finck von Finckenstein, Hans-Werner Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Finck von Finckenstein, Hans-Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt (Oder)
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2012