Harry wishes

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Harry Wishes (born May 8, 1929 in Plauen ; † May 3, 2008 ) was a German international lawyer , president of the Society for International Law in the GDR and reunified Germany, lawyer and chairman of the board of trustees of the West-East Encounters Foundation based in Berlin .

Life

Harry Reinhold Wünsche was born as the son of an employee in the Saxon Vogtland, in the town of Plauener Spitze. He passed his Abitur in Chemnitz in 1946 at a school that was renamed Karl Marx Oberschule in 1949 and was named Georgius Agricola Gymnasium in 1993 . From March to September 1946 he was a member of the CDU regional association of Saxony , but joined the SED the following year and emphasized his position as one of the founders of the FDJ in Chemnitz. From 1947 to 1949 he worked as a teacher in schools in this city in the Erzgebirge foothills. He then worked in 1949/50 as deputy director at the seminar for social women's professions in Chemnitz.

Scientific career

He then began studying law at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU) and soon moved from Halle to Potsdam-Babelsberg to the German Academy for Political Science and Law (DASR), where the law student and -Assistant passed the state examination in 1952 and was appointed head of the chair in international law . In 1956, wishes his doctorate there for Dr. jur. with the thesis “The imperialist conception of the 'integration' of Europe after the Second World War.” In 1965 he successfully defended his habilitation thesis . He was appointed full professor in 1966 and, as an international law expert, then headed the Chair of International Organization and Contract Law and, from 1978, the Department of International Law, Diplomatic and Consular Law of the Institute for International Relations of the DASR . He was one of the authors of the textbook Völkerrecht , which appeared in 1973 in the then GDR with "all the voices important for international law", such as Bernhard Graefrath , Herbert Kröger and Peter Alfons Steiniger , and in 1981 in the second, revised and expanded edition.

Activities as a diplomat

In the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the GDR (MfAA), Wünsche took over the position of first secretary in 1961 and worked from 1962 to 1964 as counselor at the GDR embassy in the USSR in Moscow. As head of the Analysis, Forecasting and Planning in the MfAA , he was employed in the years 1968 to 1971.

Voluntary work as a lawyer in associations (selection)

In addition to his full-time occupation, Wunsch also performed voluntary functions in various committees - as:

Member of the GDR delegation on the III. United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea

In the status of an ambassador, Wünsche was a member of the GDR delegation on the III Conference on the Law of the Sea . He was part of the regular cast. The delegations from the two German states at that time sat next to each other during a plenary session in Geneva in August 1980: the diplomat Herbert Dreher (* 1916) next to Gunter Görner (* 1939) and behind both heads of delegation: Harry Wünsche. In 1975, together with Görner, he published an article on “Development tendencies in the codification of international law” in the GDR magazine for law and jurisprudence Neue Justiz .

Awards (selection)

Wish received the following awards:

Lawyer

In unified Germany, Wünsche worked as a lawyer and traded under his name with the academic title of Prof. Dr. Dr. Harry wishes . Initially he was a partner in the Berlin law firm Finkelnburg and then worked in a regional law firm. In an obituary for its honorary chairman and lawyer, the Foundation West-Eastern Encounters acknowledged that, when the foundation was established in 1994, "financial resources, to which millions of members of the Society for German-Soviet Friendship in the GDR had contributed, have been preserved and ... a permanent one Form the basis for promoting encounters and understanding with people in the newly created states and countries on the territory of the former Soviet Union . " Wish left a daughter and two sons living in Potsdam , one of them in his hometown Chemnitz, as well as his wife Heidemarie-Wünsche Plétzka. The private memorial service and burial of the deceased took place in the North Rhine-Westphalian community of Wachtberg-Berkum .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ School chronicle of the Georgius-Agricola-Gymnasium - 1857 until today ; Chronicle: clinker brick building from 1929
  2. ↑ Biographical information from the handbook Who was who in the GDR? , Keyword. "Wishes, Harry", edited by Andreas Herbst; DNB 1000948447
  3. ^ Potsdam, Academy for State u. Law, dissertation from April 7, 1956; DNB 480167761
  4. ↑ Breithaupt, Dirk: Juridical Biography GDR , 1993, p. 550 f. [Wishes, Harry]; DNB 940131013
  5. ^ Stolleis, Michael : Constitutional and Administrative Law Studies in West and East 1945-1990 , Volume 4, p. 563; ISBN 978-3-406-63203-7
  6. ^ Bock, Siegfried (ed.): GDR foreign policy. An overview , [data, facts, people], Berlin 2010, p. 368; ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2
  7. ^ GDR foreign policy ; Part 3., [data, facts, people], Berlin 2010, p. 368; ISBN 978-3-643-10559-2
  8. ^ ADN report in: Berliner Zeitung , November 20, 1980, p. 2
  9. ↑ Committees of the Prof. Dr. Dr. Harry Wishes †, Honorary Chairman
  10. ↑ Görner, Gunter: Völkerrecht in the context of its time ; Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza / Thuringia 2014, p. 248; ISBN 978-3-86777-742-1
  11. ↑ Illustration in: Görner, Gunter: Völkerrecht in the context of its time ; Verlag Rockstuhl, Bad Langensalza / Thuringia 2014, p. 267; ISBN 978-3-86777-742-1
  12. ^ Neue Justiz , Issue 23/1975, pp. 673–677
  13. ↑ taz, the daily newspaper of March 26, 1992
  14. ↑ Obituary notice "Prof. Dr. Dr. Harry Wünsche, attorney" of the firm then active in Munich, Berlin and Ludwigshafen, printed in the Berliner Zeitung on December 10th and 11th. May 2008, p. 12
  15. ^ Excerpt from the obituary of the West-Eastern Encounters Foundation , printed in the Berliner Zeitung on December 10th and 11th. May 2008, p. 12
  16. ↑ The family's obituary , printed in the Berliner Zeitung on December 10th and 11th. May 2008, p. 12
personal data
SURNAME Wishes, Harry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wishes, Harry Reinhold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German international lawyer in the GDR
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Plauen
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 2008