Hardo Brueckner

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Hardo Brückner (born November 11, 1910 in Abbazzia , Istria ; † 1991 or 1992 ) was a German tax official and diplomat who, among other things, was head of the commercial agency in the People's Republic of Hungary between 1964 and 1971 and ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Zaire from 1971 to 1973 was.

Life

Brückner, son of Professor Ernst Brückner, studied political science and law at the University of Vienna after attending the public grammar school of the Theresian Academy Foundation , the so-called “Theresianum Vienna”, and the Old Commercial Academy . He passed the first and second state law exams. Furthermore, there took place its graduation to Doctor of Laws . In 1935 he joined the tax office in Vienna as a civil servant and in 1939 moved to the tax office in Bremen, where he was promoted to the government council in 1940 . During the Second World War he served as a soldier in the Wehrmacht from 1941 to 1945 . After the end of the war, in 1945 he became a member of the governing body of the Bremen Finance Bureau, before he worked as a senior government adviser and personal advisor to the Senator for Finance Bremen Wilhelm Nolting-Hauff between 1947 and 1950 .

Brückner then moved to the higher foreign service in 1950 and was initially a consultant in the Political Department, but shortly afterwards moved to the Federal Government Office in Saarbrücken , which was renamed the Federal Government Commissioner in Saarland in 1956. There he worked until 1959 as head of the Foreign Office in the rank of lecturer in the Legation Council. In this function he was also head of the German delegation in negotiations with the victorious Western Allies about the return of German archive material after the Second World War.

After that was Brückner 1960-1964 as Counselor Deputy Head of Mission in South Africa . Subsequently, as Counselor First Class, he was head of the commercial agency in the People's Republic of Hungary between 1964 and 1971 . Most recently, he became ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Zaire in 1971 and held this post until his early retirement in 1973, whereupon Karl Döring became his successor there.

Publications

  • with Irmgard Brückner: From the face of America. Vienna Catholic Academy, 1982.
  • with Peter Butelezi : Something about the country, residents and church in South Africa. Vienna Catholic Academy, 1986.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Establishment of an office of the Foreign Office in Saarbrücken (cabinet minutes of January 25, 1956)
  2. ↑ Appointment of a foreign mission (cabinet minutes of February 15, 1956)
  3. ^ Astrid M. Eckert: Struggle for the files: the Western Allies and the return of German archival material after the Second World War , Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-5150-8554-8
  4. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (Cabinet minutes of February 12, 1964)
  5. ↑ Trade instead of politics? . In: The time of November 5, 1965
  6. ↑ TÖRÖK: battle for title . In: Der Spiegel from July 18, 1966
  7. ↑ To a demonstration with paint and brush . In: Der Spiegel from September 11, 1967
  8. ↑ Hans Günter Hockerts, Claudia Moisel, Tobias Winstel (editor): Limits of reparation: Compensation for victims of Nazi persecution in Western and Eastern Europe 1945-2000 , pp. 761, 763, Wallstein Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-8353-0005 -9
personal data
SURNAME Brückner, Hardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Abbazzia , Istria
DATE OF DEATH 1991