Hans Arnold (diplomat)

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Hans (Johann) Redlef Arnold (born August 14, 1923 in Munich ) is a German diplomat and publicist .

Origin and education

Arnold is the son of the Simplicissimus cartoonist Karl Arnold . His grandfather was Max Oscar Arnold , a manufacturer, a member of the Reichstag from 1914 to 1918 and president of the Coburg state parliament in the 1920s . His mother was the painter and portraitist Anne-Dora Arnold , b. Volquardsen. At the Second World War, Arnold took from 1941 to 1945 as a soldier of the Air Force Signal Corps with last rank Lance Corporal part.

Arnold studied ethnology and psychology in Munich from 1946 to 1949. In 1949, the carried Promotion Dr. phil. This was followed by study visits to the Sorbonne in Paris (1950) and Georgetown University , School of Foreign Service, in Washington DC (1952). From 1948 to 1950 Arnold worked as a freelance journalist. In 1950 he attended the diplomatic school in Speyer. In 1951 he joined the Foreign Service .

Diplomatic service

In the Foreign Office, Arnold worked in the Western Europe department from 1951 to 1952. 1955 to 1957 he headed the “Maghreb” department. In 1961 and 1962 he was deputy head of division in the “Reunification, Berlin” division, and from 1962 to 1966 in the “NATO, defense” division. From 1966 to 1968 he headed the ministerial office of Federal Foreign Minister Willy Brandt . From 1972 to 1977 he headed the department for foreign cultural policy and was a representative of the federal government in the deployed by the German Bundestag Study Commission for the reform of foreign cultural policy. From 1981 to 1982 he was chief inspector of the Foreign Service.

Abroad, Arnold was assigned to the embassy in Paris from 1952 to 1955 and to the embassy in Washington from 1957 to 1961, both in the political department and as a representative of the cultural attaché . From 1968 to 1972 Arnold was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in The Hague , Netherlands . From 1977 to 1981 he was ambassador to Rome (Quirinal). From 1982 to 1986 Arnold was permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the office and organizations of the United Nations in Geneva.

He works as an author for the monthly magazine Mut .

He has been retired since 1987 and is a lecturer at the Munich School of Politics .

He is a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations .

Since 2013 he has been taking part in discussions with contemporary witnesses on a voluntary basis as part of the “Tell me” project of the Munich Student Office.

Publications

  • Cultural exports as politics? - Aspects of German foreign cultural policy. Horst Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen / Basel 1976.
  • (English-language edition) Foreign Cultural Policy. A survey from a German point of view. Horst Erdmann Verlag, Tübingen / Basel 1979.
  • Foreign cultural policy. An overview from a German perspective. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich / Vienna 1980.
  • (Italian-language edition) Politica Estera e Culturale. Editore Armando Armando, Roma 1980.
  • Europe at the end? The dissolution of the EC and NATO. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1993.
  • Germany's size. German foreign policy between power and lack. Piper, Munich / Zurich 1995.
  • Europe - rethinking. Why and how further agreement? Bouvier, Bonn 1999.
  • How much unification does Europe need? Droste, Düsseldorf 2004.

Media appearances

  • The diplomat and publicist Hans Arnold, RFR Regionalfernsehen Rosenheim, broadcast from 1993
  • The UN diplomat Hans Arnold, BR television, broadcast on March 14, 2003
  • Christoph Lindenmeyer in conversation with Hans Arnold, BR RadioDuo, broadcast on February 7, 2004
  • Contemporary witness Hans Arnold, TV Munich, broadcast on April 30, 2004
  • Experienced history, diplomat Hans Arnold, conversation with Godehard Wyerer WDR 5, broadcast on August 19, 2012

Web links

literature

  • Hans Arnold in Who is Who? The German Who's Who. Schmidt-Römhild publishing house.
  • Hans Arnold in The International Who's Who. Edit. Europa Publications, Publ. By Routledge, UK.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hans Arnold: Damage to the international community of states - Iraq, the USA and international law. ( Memento from June 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) at: ag-friedensforschung.de , short biography at the end of the article, accessed on June 23, 2011.
  2. ↑ http://www.mut-verlag.de/autoren/index.html
  3. ↑ http://www.dgvn.de/ueber-uns/organisation/praesidium/
personal data
SURNAME Arnold, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Arnold, Johann Redlef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich