Hans Ferdinand Linsser

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Hans Ferdinand Linsser (born December 11, 1918 in Dortmund ; † November 28, 2002 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat who, among other things, was ambassador to Chad between 1962 and 1965 , ambassador to Burma from 1975 to 1980 and most recently between 1980 and 1983 ambassador was in Malaysia .

Life

After graduating from high school, Linsser began studying law , which he had to interrupt because of his military service in World War II . After the war he continued his studies and put on 15 July 1949 his promotion to the doctorate in law with a dissertation titled divorce without fault in comparative law examination at the Georg-August University Göttingen from. After entering the higher-level foreign service, he found various posts at diplomatic missions in Khartoum and Ankara and at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn .

On September 26, 1962, Legation Councilor Linsser was appointed the first ambassador to Chad and held this post until 1965, when Per Fischer succeeded him. The embassy was officially opened on February 14, 1963. He was also active in the legal department and, in 1970, as a lecturer in the Legation Council, deputy head of the peace settlement unit, issues arising from war and occupation, stationing foreign troops, foreign debts and confiscated German foreign assets of the Foreign Office. He then served as Consul General Calcutta between 1972 and 1975 .

In 1975 he replaced Klaus Terfloth as ambassador to Burma and remained in this position until he was replaced by Helmut Türk in 1980. In this position, on April 27, 1976, he signed an agreement between the government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the government of the Socialist Burmese Union Capital aid.

Most recently, he took over the post of ambassador to Malaysia in 1980 as the successor to Willi Albert Ritter and held this position until he retired in 1983, after which Wolfram Dufner succeeded him there in 1984. During his term of office, Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher paid a visit in 1980 , the first visit by a German Foreign Minister to Malaysia since Walter Scheel in 1969. On March 11, 1981, the writer Ernst Jünger also visited him in his residence in Kuala Lumpur .

publication

  • Divorce through no fault in comparative law , dissertation, University of Göttingen, 1949
  • There were two really nice murderers , pp. 83-88, in: Eckart Diezemann (editor): Storm on the Embassy , Arena-Verlag, Würzburg 1987, ISBN 3-401-04162-2

Web links

  • Entry in Köbler Gerhard: Who is who in German law

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolfgang G. Schwanitz: Twofold Germans and Islamism in the Cold War , in: Outre-Mers. Revue d'histoire , 2011, No. 372-373, pp. 63-94
  2. ↑ 48th cabinet meeting on October 4, 1962. Occupation of German missions abroad ( Federal Archives )
  3. ^ German-Chadian relations
  4. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , p. 129, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-1109-5684-5
  5. Jump up ↑ Barry Rubin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz: Nazis, Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East , p. 228, Yale University Press, 2014, ISBN 0-3001-4090-8
  6. ↑ Möller, Horst; Schöllgen, Gregor; Wirsching, Andreas: 1970. Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany , p. 2391, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-4867-1817-7
  7. ↑ Martin Koopmann, Matthias Peter, Daniela Taschler: 1971 , p. 807, Walter de Gruyter, 2002, ISBN 3-4867-1816-9
  8. ↑ Möller, Horst; Schöllgen, Gregor; Wirsching, Andreas: 1973. Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany , pp. 805, 2113, Walter de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-4867-1814-2
  9. ↑ Agreement between the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Government of the Socialist Burmese Union on Capital Aid of April 27, 1976 ( Federal Law Gazette )
  10. ↑ Tobias Esche: Myanmar: Unterwegs im Land der White Elefanten , p. 91, Trescher Verlag, 2018, ISBN 3-8979-4395-6
  11. ↑ In Myanmar, a tale of two Germanies . In: Myanmar Times, April 16, 2012
  12. ↑ Möller, Horst; Schöllgen, Gregor; Wirsching, Andreas: 1980. Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany , p. 479, Walter de Gruyter, 2013, ISBN 3-4867-1806-1
  13. ↑ Ernst Jünger: Complete Works in 22 Volumes , Volume 20, Part 1, pp. 44, 103, new edition, Klett-Cotta, 2015, ISBN 3-6081-0923-4
  14. ↑ Table of Contents Storming the Embassy
personal data
SURNAME Linsser, Hans Ferdinand
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2002
Place of death Bonn