Hans Berger (diplomat)

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Hans Berger (1964)

Hans Berger (born October 29, 1909 in Cologne , † March 6, 1985 in Bad Honnef ) was a German diplomat .

Life

The son of an administrative officer studied law at the University of Cologne after attending school and graduated with the first state examination in 1933 . After his doctorate as Dr. iur. In 1936 he passed the second state examination in 1937 and then worked as a court assessor from 1937 to 1939 at several courts in Cologne . In November 1939 he became an advisor to the Reich Commissioner for Pricing, Josef Wagner . During this activity, which lasted until 1944, he was known for his social commitment and, through his membership in the Christian-Social Circle, maintained relationships with the trade unionist Nikolaus Groß and the student chaplain Hermann Joseph Schmitt from the Catholic Workers' Movement (KAB) and thus came into contact the people of July 20, 1944 . He later took his attitude, which was shaped by Christianity , as the yardstick for his actions and statements.

After the end of the Second World War he was first advisor to the local court in Cologne in 1945 . As early as 1946 he became a higher regional judge in the legal committee of the British zone of occupation in Hamburg and then in 1947 as ministerial advisor head of the department for legislation in the Ministry of Justice of North Rhine-Westphalia and thus a close assistant to Justice Minister Gustav Heinemann .

After working as a judge at the Supreme Court of the British Zone of Occupation in Cologne from 1948 to 1949, Berger was President of the Düsseldorf Regional Court from July 1949 to March 1953 . Between 1953 and 1954 he was ministerial director and head of the constitution , constitutional law and administration department in the Federal Ministry of the Interior .

He then switched to the diplomatic service and from 1954 to 1959, as ministerial director, he was head of the legal department of the Foreign Office . In this function he negotiated with Denmark in August 1959 about the payment of compensation payments.

Shortly afterwards, in 1959, he became ambassador to Denmark, succeeding Gerhart Feine, who died in office in April .

He was then ambassador to the Netherlands from 1963 to 1965 . There he succeeded Josef Löns , who became ambassador to Austria . In his function as ambassador to the Netherlands, he tried to reduce resentment about the occupation of the Netherlands in World War II.

In 1965 he was appointed as the successor to Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld as State Secretary and Head of the Office of the Federal President and was thus a close collaborator of Federal President Heinrich Lübke until the end of his term in office on June 30, 1969.

Between 1969 and 1971 he was ambassador to the Holy See .

As an opponent and critic of the German government's Ostpolitik under Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt , he was prematurely retired in 1971 .

Since 1928 he was a member of the KDB Saxonia in Cologne in the RKDB .

Honors

literature

  • Hans Booms, Ulrich Enders, Konrad Reiser: The cabinet minutes of the federal government. Volume 8: 1955. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-486-56280-0 , p. 173, footnote 11 ( digitized version )
  • Hans Booms, Ursula Hüllbüsch: The cabinet minutes of the federal government. Volume 9: 1956. Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56281-9 , p. 308 ( digitized version )
  • Andrea Wiegeshoff: "We all have to relearn something": on the internationalization of the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945/51 - 1969) . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1257-9 , p. 422f.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cologne on January 30, 1933. In the midst of a coup. In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. January 25, 2008
  2. ↑ Time of the innocent . In: Der Spiegel . No. 29 , 1964, pp. 30 u. 31 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Hans Günter Hockerts, Claudia Moisel, Tobias Winstel: Limits of reparation. Compensation for victims of Nazi persecution in Western and Eastern Europe 1945–2000. Wallstein-Verlag, Göttingen 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0005-9 , ISBN 978-3-8353-0005-7 , p. 81 and a. ( Digitized version )
  4. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius: From Adenauer to Erhard . Oldenbourg-Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-64568-4 , p. 53 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Hans Booms, Ulrich Enders, Konrad Reiser: The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government. Volume 16: 1963. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57918-5 , ISBN 978-3-486-57918-5 , p. 330 ( digitized version )
  6. ^ Friso Wielenga : Between Approach and Distance - Dutch and Germans since 1945.
  7. ↑ Camels, camels . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1968, p. 21-26 ( online ).
  8. ↑ Udo Kühn: What happened in April 1971?
  9. ↑ "The degree of opportunism is enormous" . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1972, p. 30-42 ( online ).
  10. ↑ Vatican. Monsignor 007. Stasi files: A KGB employee revealed the conversations between Willy Brandt and Pope Paul VI. In: Focus No. 40/1996
  11. ↑ Udo Kühn: The Warsaw Treaty was ratified 30 years ago.
  12. ^ Karl Kossert (ed.): Complete directory of the RKB . Berlin 1967.
  13. ↑ 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
Hans Wolf Jaeschke German ambassador to the Holy See
1969–1971 		Alexander Böker
personal data
SURNAME Berger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German judge and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne
DATE OF DEATH March 6, 1985
Place of death Bad Honnef