Hans Schmidt-Horix

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Hans Schmidt (since September 4, 1939 Schmidt-Horix) (born September 20, 1909 on a tobacco plantation (Bekioen) near Medan , Sumatra ; † November 30, 1970 in Lisbon ) was a German ambassador .

Life

Schmidt-Horix graduated from high school in Wiesbaden and studied law and political science at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , and at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . Since 1928 he was a member of the Corps Hasso-Borussia Freiburg . In 1933 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. with a dissertation at the University of Freiburg with the title The evasion of the obligation to do something (§ 138 StGB) . In 1934 he joined the Reiter-SS , in 1944 he received the rank of Untersturmführer .

Schmidt-Horix joined the Foreign Office as an attaché in 1935 . In 1936 he was transferred to the embassy in Paris, from 1937 to 1941 he was an attaché at the German embassy in Lisbon. In 1941 he was sent to the embassy of the German Reich in Washington as legation secretary . From 1942 to 1943, Hans Schmidt-Horix fought in the German Africa Corps . From 1944 to 1945 he was legation secretary at the German embassy in Fasano, Italy.

From 1946 to 1948 he was a management consultant . From 1948 to 1952 he was employed by the German Office for Entry and Exit Permits in Düsseldorf . In 1952 he was taken back into the foreign service and was accredited at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Karachi until 1955 , from 1953 as a delegation councilor, 1st class. From 1955 to 1959 he was in the Foreign Office in Bonn. On January 24, 1957 he was promoted to lecturing Counselor First Class and headed the South and Southeast Asia Department in the Foreign Ministry.

From 1959 to 1963 Schmidt-Horix was ambassador to Kabul, from 1963 to 1965 ambassador to Baghdad.

From 1965 to 1969 he worked as an ambassador in the Foreign Office. End of March 1966 negotiated Schmidt-Horix with the South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do the conditions of use of Helgoland .

Schmidt-Horix was ambassador to Lisbon from 1969 until his suicide in 1970.

publication

  • Evasion of the obligation to do something (§ 138 StGB) , dissertation University of Freiburg, Coburg 1934

literature

  • Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 4: S , arranged by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3
  • Ulrich Brinkhoff: Nightmares on the Saigon River, South Vietnam 1965–1968. agenda Verlag, Münster 2014, ISBN 978-3-89688-516-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 67 , 445
  2. ↑ Vietnam War - These people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1966 ( online ).
predecessor Office successor
Erich Eiswaldt Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kabul
1959–1963 		Gerhard Moltmann
Werner von Bargen Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Baghdad
1963–1965 		Heinz Voigt
Herbert Müller-Roschach Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lisbon
1969–1970 		Ehrenfried von Holleben
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Horix, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 20, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH near Medan , Sumatra
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 1970
Place of death Lisbon