Heinz-Werner Meyer-Lohse

Heinz-Werner Meyer-Lohse (born October 18, 1914 in Elberfeld , † after 1979) was a German diplomat who was, among other things, the last ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Luxembourg from 1975 to 1979 .

Life

Meyer-Lohse was the son of the manufacturer and partner in the Reimann & Meyer company in Elberfeld, Eugen Ernst Werner Meyer and his wife Margret Lohse. After graduating from high school, he himself completed a law degree and served as captain and battalion commander during the Second World War . He was awarded the Iron Cross Second and First Class and the Wound Badge for his services . After the war, he put on 4 February 1952, the University of Cologne 's promotion to Doctor of Law with the thesis Section 21 (4) of the Conversion Act . As an employee of the higher foreign service, he was employed in the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and in various missions abroad. In 1959 he succeeded Karl Josef Partsch consul in Naples and held this post until 1960, whereupon Heinz Holldack became his successor there in 1961. After that, between 1960 and 1962 he was Head of the Department 202 "EURATOM, International Relations in the Nuclear Field and Space Research" in the Foreign Office as First Class Councilor for Nuclear Energy, and in this function also prepared classification talks with the USA on atomic technology.

In 1966 he was a lecturer in the First Class Legation Council and headed the “Central and South America” section in the Foreign Office and as such accompanied the then State Secretary in the Foreign Office Karl Carstens on his business trip to Bolivia , Argentina and Brazil in July 1966 . In July 1969 he was appointed envoy . As such, he was permanent representative of the Ambassador to Spain until 1975 .

In 1975 Meyer-Lohse replaced Hanns Hilgard as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Luxembourg and held this post until he retired in 1979, after which Günter Knackstedt became his successor there. During this time, he shared the view of the Luxembourg Minister of Energy, Marcel Mart , that the construction of the planned Luxembourg nuclear power plant Remerschen bei Remerschen and the planned French nuclear power plant Cattenom would be mutually exclusive.

Meyer-Lohse was married to Marion Lotte Johanne Schniewind.

publication

• Section 21 (4) of the Conversion Act , dissertation University of Cologne, Bonn 1952

Individual evidence

1. ↑ German Family Archives
2. ↑ Jürgen Klöckler: THE GERMAN-ITALIAN RELATIONSHIPS FROM CENTROSINISTRA TO THE GREAT COALITION FROM THE VIEW OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE , in: Sources and research from Italian libraries and archives , p. 536, vol. 79, 1999
3. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1962 , p. 2183, Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 3-4867-1830-4
4. ^ Stephan Geier: threshold power. Nuclear energy and foreign policy in the Federal Republic of Germany from 1949 to 1980 , p. 820, dissertation, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, 2011
5. ^ Stephan Geier: Threshold power: Bonn's secret atomic diplomacy from Adenauer to Schmidt , p. 127, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh, 2013, ISBN 3-6577-7791-1
6. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1966 , p. 1761, Walter de Gruyter, 1997, ISBN 3-4867-1821-5
7. ^ Foreign Office Register of Persons 1966
8. ^ Karl Carstens : Memories and Experiences , p. 304, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 1993, ISBN 3-4868-1868-6
9. ↑ Personal details (cabinet minutes of July 2, 1969)
10. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 197 , p. 619, Walter de Gruyter, 2006, ISBN 3-4867-1812-6
11. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1976 , p. 1760, Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 3-4867-1811-8
12. ↑ Sandra Tauer: Incident for the good neighborhood ?: Germans and French in search of a common energy policy (1973-1980) , p. 266, V&R unipress GmbH, 2012, ISBN 3-8997-1949-2