Harald Hofmann (diplomat)

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Harald Hofmann (born December 27, 1932 in Nuremberg ) is a German lawyer and former diplomat , who was, among other things, federal executive director of the FDP and ambassador to Denmark , Venezuela , Norway and Sweden .

Life

Administrative lawyer and federal manager of the FDP

After graduating from the Gisela-Oberrealschule in Munich-Schwabing , Hofmann, whose father was government vice-president in Ansbach (Middle Franconia), studied law and political science at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg . He was followed from 1958 to 1961 as Regierungsassessor and most recently as Councilor active in Augsburg and Schwabmünchen in the Bavarian interior administration. In 1954 he was reciprocated with Wolfgang Winkler in the Corps Bavaria Erlangen . In 1961 Hofmann became personal advisor to Walter Scheel , who had recently been appointed the first Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation . After four years of activity, he became Head of Department for Southeast Asia and East Asia in this Federal Ministry in 1965 , before he became Head of the Department for International Development Policy Issues from January 1, 1969 . After Walter Scheel had become Federal Foreign Minister of the social-liberal coalition , he appointed Hofmann in October 1969 as head of the ministerial office of the Foreign Office . In September 1972, he was promoted to ministerial director and appointed head of the management team of the Foreign Office. Subsequently, Hofmann was appointed federal executive director of the FDP in July 1973 by the federal executive committee of the FDP and took over this office on September 1, 1973 as successor to Joachim Stancke . During this time he was also the domestic director of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . From 1969 to 1974 he was a member of the Advisory Board of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation . Hofmann is a member of the jury of the Association of Liberal Academics for the award of the Arno Esch Prize .

ambassador

In 1977 he returned to the Foreign Office and was appointed Ambassador to Denmark as successor to Werner Ahrens and held this office until he was replaced by Rudolf Jestaedt in 1981. During this time, he was also Deputy Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Youth in 1980 Family and Health , Fred Zander , as head of the delegation at the United Nations Women's Congress in Copenhagen .

Hofmann then succeeded Helmut Redies as ambassador in Venezuela in 1981 and held this position until he was replaced by Hans Werner Loeck in 1985. He then received his accreditation as ambassador to Norway , where he succeeded Johannes Balser , who had died in office . As such, Hofmann also gave lectures to the German-Norwegian Society on bilateral diplomatic relations.

After seven years in Norway, he was followed by Helmut Wegner in 1992 , while he in turn succeeded Reinhold Schenk as ambassador to Sweden . The office of ambassador to Sweden practiced Hofmann until his transfer to the retirement of the 1997th

Publications

  • With Wolfram Dorn : History of German Liberalism , 2nd edition, Bonn 1976.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 12/741.
  2. ^ Homepage of the Corps Bavaria Erlangen .
  3. ↑ Personal details . In: Der Spiegel , No. 31/1974.
  4. ↑ Annual report (PDF; 2.9 MB) of the FNS 1976.
  5. ↑ AA thrust . In: Der Spiegel , No. 4/1977.
  6. ↑ WOMEN'S CONGRESS: Shamelessly dominated . In: Der Spiegel , No. 30/1980.
  7. ↑ 25 years of the German-Norwegian Society Bonn e. V .: Review in keywords 1982–2009 ( Memento from June 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (DNG homepage).
  8. ^ Former ambassadors in Norway ( memento from September 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), homepage of the German Embassy in Oslo.
personal data
SURNAME Hofmann, Harald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg