Heinrich Röhreke

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Heinrich Carl Franz Röhreke (born March 20, 1910 in Hankou , China , † November 30, 2001 in Dießen am Ammersee ) was a German diplomat .

Life

The son of a in East Asia working businessman visited after the First World War, a human High School in Kiel and studied after the Abitur Law and Economics . After passing the second state examination in law , he completed language courses to learn the Chinese and Japanese languages . He then worked for the German Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai in the early 1930s , before entering the diplomatic service in May 1936 .

Due to his in-depth knowledge of the language, he was subsequently employed at the foreign missions in Xinjing , Shanghai, Chongqing and Beijing . Most recently he was consul in Hankow in 1944 .

After the end of the Second World War , he worked as an assistant professor at the University of Wuchang until 1947 .

On his return to Germany he was first from 1948 to 1949 as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Tübingen worked, where his promotion to Dr. iur. took place. In 1950 he then became the personal advisor to Gebhard Müller , President of Württemberg-Hohenzollern .

He later returned to the diplomatic service as First Class Legation Councilor . As Consul First Class, he was appointed Consul General in Singapore in 1958 and held this office until 1963.

In 1963 Röhreke became a lecturer in the Legation Council in the Foreign Office before he was ambassador to the Philippines from 1967 to 1969 .

In 1971 he was appointed envoy 1st class as chargé d'affaires at the German embassy in Japan. The following year he was envoy first class at the newly established Embassy in the People's Republic of China and was up to the accreditation of Rolf Friedemann Pauls , the first ambassador to the establishment of diplomatic relations, as chargé Chief of Mission. He was then deputy ambassador and head of the embassy’s political department until his retirement in 1975.

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  1. ↑ German consuls, consuls general and ambassadors in Singapore since 1873 ( Memento of the original from March 8, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.singapur.diplo.de
  2. ↑ Hans Booms, Ulrich Enders, Konrad Reiser: The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government. Volume 11: 1958. Oldenbourg, Munich 1982, ISBN 3-486-56566-4 , p. 257 ( digitized version )
  3. ^ Diplomacy. Difficult connections. In: Der Spiegel. No. 17/1973
  4. ↑ Heinz Sarkowski , Heinz Götze : The Springer publishing house. Stations in its history. Volume 2: 1945-1992. Springer Verlag, Berlin [ua] 1994, ISBN 3-540-56691-0 , p. 140 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Röhreke, Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Röhreke, Heinrich Carl Franz (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Hankou , China
DATE OF DEATH November 30, 2001
Place of death Dießen am Ammersee