Hans Schirmer

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Hans Schirmer (born January 9, 1911 in Berlin ; † November 6, 2002 in Hamburg ) was a German diplomat .

Life

After graduating from high school at Wilhelm Ernst Gymnasium in Weimar, Schirmer studied law , political science and history as well as sociology and philosophy in Bonn, Munich, Berlin and Heidelberg . He completed a semester abroad in London. In 1933 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1939 he joined the Foreign Service . From 1950 Schirmer headed the foreign department of the press and information office of the federal government. At the end of 1955 he returned to the Foreign Service and was first consul general in Cairo and later in Hong Kong . From 1962 to 1966 he worked again in the Bonn headquarters of the Foreign Service; he then returned to the Press and Information Office as head and ministerial director.

From March 1968 he was used as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Canberra , Australia ; in the spring of 1970 he replaced Josef Löns as the West German ambassador in Vienna , Austria . From September 2, 1974, Schirmer became head of the European-Arab Dialogue Task Force .

1965 Schirmer's membership in the NSDAP and his functions in the NSDAP / AO as well as his work in the Reich Propaganda Ministry (1935–1939) during the Nazi era in the GDR propaganda publication Braunbuch. War and Nazi criminals in the Federal Republic and in West Berlin. State, economy, administration, army, justice, science called, which remained without consequences.

Awards

literature

  • Internationales Biographisches Archiv 28/1975 of June 30, 1975 ( excerpt , accessed on February 19, 2013).
  • Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 4: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: S Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3
  • Hans-Jürgen Döscher : The Foreign Office in the Third Reich. Diplomacy in the shadow of the final solution. Siedler, Berlin 1987 ISBN 3-88680-256-6
  • 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. 434f.

swell

  • Who's Who in Australia - Volume 17; Volumes 19-22 - page 756
  • German Who's Who - Volume 46 - 2007 - page 1141

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ German Embassy in Vienna: German Ambassador in Austria since 1871 ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.diplo.de 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. , accessed February 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ Ilse Dorothee Pautsch (editor): Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1977 , Oldenbourg Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-348658338-0 , page 1873.
  3. ↑ Schirmer, Hans, Dr. ( Memento of October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), entry in the Brown Book
  4. ↑ Announcement of awards of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Federal Gazette . Vol. 30, No. 219, November 21, 1978.
personal data
SURNAME Schirmer, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH November 6, 2002
Place of death Hamburg