Hasso Rüdt from Collenberg

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Hasso Freiherr Rüdt von Collenberg (born October 13, 1932 in Buchen , † May 5, 1968 in Saigon ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Hasso Rüdt von Collenberg studied law and political science at the Free University of Berlin , the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg , the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Paris I from 1952 to 1959 .

In 1955 he made his first and in 1961 his second state examination . In 1961 he joined the foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was accredited at the German embassy in Brussels . From 1963 to 1965 he was permanent representative of the ambassador in Yaoundé .

From October 1965 he was charge d'affaires of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saigon. End of March 1966 negotiated Hans Schmidt-Horix with the South Vietnamese Foreign Minister Tran Van Do the conditions under which the hospital ship Helgoland . At the beginning of April 1966, von Collenberg was replaced by the new ambassador Wilhelm Kopf , whom he placed in the modern Hotel Caravelle .

On May 5, 1968, Hasso Rüdt von Collenberg was taken out of his VW Beetle in the Cholon Chinese district of Saigon and shot in the head by Viet Cong fighters, whereupon Hans Schmidt-Horix was sent to Saigon as a special ambassador.

literature

  • Ulrich Brinkhoff: Nightmares on the Saigon River, South Vietnam 1965-1968 , agenda Verlag Münster, 2014, ISBN 978-3-89688-516-6 , 243 pages with 120 illustrations. (with foreword by Walter Scheel)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vietnam War: These people . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1966 ( online ).
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Kopf . In: Der Spiegel . No. 16 , 1966 ( online ).
  3. ↑ Viet Cong Kill 4 . In: St. Petersburg Times , May 5, 1968
  4. ↑ People in the hotel . Der Spiegel, May 13, 1968
  5. ↑ Special envoy to Saigon .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) In: Frankfurter Rundschau , May 14, 1968@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / original Ausgabe.fr-online.de  
predecessor Office successor
Günther Schlegelberger Chargé d'affaires of the Federal Republic of Germany in Vietnam
October 1965 - April 1966 		Wilhelm head
personal data
SURNAME Rüdt von Collenberg, Hasso
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rüdt von Collenberg, Hasso Freiherr (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Book
DATE OF DEATH 5th May 1968
Place of death Saigon