Hans Count Huyn

Hans Graf Huyn alias Johannes Georg Carl Friedrich Huyn (born July 3, 1930 in Warsaw , Poland; † January 22, 2011 on the Renon in South Tyrol ) was a German diplomat , politician ( CSU ) and publicist .

Life

Hans Graf Huyn was the son of the press attaché at the German legation in Poland Johannes Franz Graf Huyn (1894–1941) and Liselotte von Philipp. He married Rosemary Ferdinande Altgräfin zu Salm-Reifferscheidt-Krautheim and Dyck . The children Johannes, Marie Christine, Franz-Ferdinand and Assunta emerged from the marriage.

After attending several schools abroad and the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich, Huyn studied law , philosophy and history as well as languages at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at universities in France and South America. In 1954 he passed the state examination in law in Munich . In 1955 he became an attaché in the Foreign Office .

After the death of his wife Rosemary in 2004 at the age of 67, he withdrew into private life. Hans Graf Huyn died after a long illness and was buried on January 29, 2011 in the cemetery in Maria Himmelfahrt ( Oberbozen ).

Services

In 1956 he took part as secretary in the EEC negotiations in Brussels. From 1956 to 1957 he held diplomatic posts in Tunis and Dublin and was employed at the headquarters of the Foreign Office until 1959. After working at the embassy in Tokyo from 1959 to 1964, he was permanent representative of the ambassador in Manila from June to August 1961 . From 1963 to 1965 he was in the European policy department of the Foreign Office's political department, responsible for European political cooperation and the Franco-German friendship treaty .

In 1965 Huyn asked for his release in the course of a highly publicized confidentiality affair about his person, the Huyn affair .

Hans Huyn then worked as a publicist. In 1969 he worked for the federal finance administration and in 1972 switched to the CSU regional group in the CDU / CSU parliamentary group in the German Bundestag. Until 1976 he was the foreign policy advisor to Franz Josef Strauss . In 1976 he himself became a member of the German Bundestag and was a member of the Rosenheim constituency from 1976 to 1987 and 1988 to 1990. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Inner German Committee and the Defense Committee as well as the CSU's foreign policy spokesman in the German Bundestag.

Huyn is the author of various books that mainly deal with Ostpolitik and the Soviet Union . As early as 1969 he had the Tyrolean wine book written in which he the potential, especially of the South Tyrolean wine pointed to and called on the South Tyrolean wine industry to operate the wine according to criteria of quality instead of quantity.

As a Catholic he was active in the Church in Need - Aid for Eastern Priests , of which he was Chairman in Germany from 1988 to 2005. From 2000 until his death he was a member of the board of trustees of the Forum of German Catholics . Hans Huyn was also a familiar of the Teutonic Order .

Awards

1986: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
Bavarian Order of Merit

Fonts

The German map. Moscow's new strategy . Munich: Universitas-Verlag, 1991
The double trap The risk Gorbachev . Munich: Herbig - Universitas, 1989
You will be like God. The error of modern man from the French Revolution to the present day. Munich: Universitas, 1988
Victory without war. Moscow's grab for world domination. Vienna: Fritz Molden Verlag, 1984
Five to twelve - the world after Afghanistan. Vienna: Molden-Verlag, 1980
We are all Afghanistan. Moscow's destination is Europe. Vienna: Fritz Molden, 1978
The attack, Moscow's advance to world domination. Vienna: Fritz Molden Verlag, 1978
Human rights and self-determination. Speeches currently 7. Würzburg: Naumann Verlag, 1977
(Ed.): Ostpolitik im Kreuzfeuer. Stuttgart: Seewald Verlag, 1971.
The Tyrolean wine book. A guide through the most beautiful vineyards in Europe. With cultural-historical and culinary excursions. A compendium of all the treasures in the Tyrolean wine country. Stuttgart: Seewald Verlag, 1969
The dead end. Germany's way into isolation. Stuttgart: Seewald Verlag, 1966

(as editor)

Wine country South Tyrol. With contributions by Hermann Frass, Hans Graf Huyn, Franz Hieronymus Riedl, Bruno Weger and others. Franz Zelger. Introduction by Robert v. Fioreschy. Foreword by Luis Durnwalder, Stuttgart: Seewald Verlag, 1985
with Nora Kinsky : Russian diary 1916-1918. Preface by Gina von Liechtenstein . Stuttgart: Seewald Verlag, 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (ed.): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag 1949–2002. KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2002.

personal data
SURNAME	Huyn, Hans Graf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Huyn, Johannes Georg Carl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German diplomat, politician (CSU), Member of the Bundestag and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH	3rd July 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH	Warsaw , Poland
DATE OF DEATH	January 22, 2011
Place of death	Renon , South Tyrol, Italy

[Vierhaus-1] Rudolf Vierhaus , Ludolf Herbst (ed.): Biographical manual of the members of the German Bundestag 1949–2002. KG Saur Verlag , Munich 2002.