Heinrich-Dietrich Dieckmann

Heinrich-Dietrich Dieckmann (* 1935 ) is a former German diplomat who was most recently ambassador in New Delhi and Tokyo .

Life

After graduating from high school , Dieckmann studied law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . There he became an active member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Rheno-Bavaria in KV . On June 21, 1963, he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. with a dissertation on the subject of the liability of the owner of a private property to its users according to the North American tort law at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster .

Dieckmann then joined the Foreign Service in 1965 and was initially employed at the embassy in India . After his early years at the Representation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Communities in Brussels and in the European Department of the Foreign Office, he headed the Economic Department of the Embassy in Brazil from 1973 to 1977 and was then the first head of the Foreign Office's Department for International Energy Policy until 1982 . Between 1982 and 1988 he was head of the economic department of the Mission to the United Nations in New York .

After a subsequent position as a commissioner for north-south negotiations, then for east-west economic relations of the Foreign Office, he was head of the economic department and the department for European integration in the Foreign Office between 1992 and 1994. As head of the economic department of the Foreign Office, he was part of the German “ Sherpa Team”, which is responsible for preparing the G7 (now G8 ) summit and which also conducted the economically relevant negotiations with the Soviet Union as part of German reunification .

In 1994 he received his accreditation as ambassador to Japan as the successor to Wilhelm Haas . There he worked until he was replaced by Frank Elbe in 1997 and took over the office of ambassador to India in the change from Elbe . After his age-related retirement in 2000, Heimo Richter succeeded him as ambassador to India.

Thereafter, Dr. Dieckmann advised, went on lecture tours at home and abroad. Until 2012, Dieckmann was a member of the board of the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation in Rhöndorf . He has been a member of the Andheri-Aid advisory board since 2007 . He also gave lectures, for example on the subject of weights shifting - what will it look like on the world stage in 30 years? in the Colloquium Humanum in Bonn .

Honors

• 1997: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

• The liability of the owner of private property to its users according to the North American tort law , dissertation, University of Münster 1963
• What is and to whom is foreign cultural policy useful: Text of the speech at the OAG Tōkyō on May 10, 1995 , 1995

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the Colloquium Humanum homepage (accessed on May 2, 2012)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Farewell to Heinrich Dietrich Dieckmann

predecessor	Office	successor
Wilhelm Haas	German ambassador to Japan 1994–1997	Frank Elbe
Frank Elbe	German ambassador to India 1997–2000	Heimo Richter