Hans Alfred Steger

Hans Alfred Steger (born July 31, 1926 in Bietigheim ; † June 29, 2009 in Dernbach ) was a German diplomat .

School, military service and studies

Hans Alfred Steger is the son of Alfred Steger and grew up in Oppenheim . He attended high school in Mainz ; During his senior years he had to serve in the air defense from 1943 in the air force . He then came to the labor service and was drafted into military service as a soldier in 1945. In 1946 he passed the exam for high school and began studying History in Mainz and Marburg with minors heads of state and international law , theology and jurisprudence . From 1951 to 1952 he was in Paris for additional studies. During these two years he also taught as a German language teacher .

Doctorate and preparation for foreign service

In his studies, which ended in 1952, he also devoted himself to the Turkish and Arabic languages . The following years were used to write a doctoral thesis. In 1955 he received his doctorate as Dr. phil. on the subject of German world politics with Hans Delbrück 1895–1918 in Marburg . In 1955 he took up a position in the Foreign Service . The next three years led him to various posts, where he stayed in Turkey from 1957 to 1958 .

Activities in foreign representations

When his preparatory service was completed, he was appointed Legation Secretary in 1958 . He was then transferred to Amman , where he worked from 1959 to 1961. This was followed by the service as counselor in Tripoli . From September 1963 he was able to deepen his knowledge of the Arabic language at the University of Beirut . From October 1964 to May 1965 he served as ambassador to the Arab Republic of North Yemen . He then came to the German embassy in Paris in 1969.

Shortly afterwards he was transferred to the headquarters of the Foreign Service in Bonn, where he dealt with questions about Western Europe. He headed the staff that set up an embassy in the People's Republic of China . From December 1, 1972, he worked there as chargé d'affaires of the embassy and headed the political department there with envoy Heinrich Röhreke . From 1975 he came back to the head office in Bonn, where he headed the department for South and Southeast Asia until 1980. a. in the creation of ASEAN participated. He then became ambassador for New Zealand and also headed the German diplomatic mission in several Pacific island states.

From the beginning of 1985 until the autumn of 1987 he worked as ambassador to Bulgaria . He then went on to serve as ambassador to Hungary , to retire in 1989. He spent his last years in Steimel ( Westerwald ).

Fonts

• The political and economic development of Vietnam after the end of the Vietnam War , in: Werner Draguhn (Ed.), Politics and Economy in Southeast Asia after the End of the Vietnam War, Hamburg 1977, pp. 113–129
• The Turks and Europe - A supplement , in: Liberal, Volume 42, August 2000, p. 58

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans Alfred Steger in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Munzinger Archive 1997
2. ↑ Bernd Ruland, German Embassy Beijing: The Century of German-Chinese Destiny, Bayreuth 1973, p. 370
3. ↑ Difficult connections . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1973 ( online ).
4. ↑ Personal communication from Marianne Steger.
5. ↑ German Embassy Sofia ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2008 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.