Heinz Dröge

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Heinz Kuno Dröge (born April 15, 1922 in Essen , † July 12, 2005 in Bonn ) was a German ambassador .

Life

Dröge served as a member of the Luftwaffe from 1941 to 1945 for military service in World War II and was last promoted to lieutenant . After the end of the war he studied economics and social sciences at the University of Cologne and the University of London from 1946 to 1951 economics . He was born in 1951 with the dissertation The man as an economic date. A contribution to economic research for Dr. rer. pole. did his doctorate and joined the foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany. Between 1951 and 1953 he was an economic advisor at the Consulate General in New York City and then from 1953 to 1962 he was Secretary of the Embassy in the USA . After his return he was employed from 1962 to 1966 as a first-class member of the Legation in the Department for General Disarmament and General Arms Control Issues, instruction for the delegation of observers for the Geneva Disarmament Conferences of the Foreign Office .

Then Dröge worked from March 7, 1966 to 1970 as counselor at the permanent mission to NATO in Paris and Brussels . During this time, in 1967 his publication , The Federal Republic of Germany and the United Nations as The Federal Republic of Germany and the United Nations as a German contribution to the United Nations study of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace was funded. This also included contributions by Ellinor von Puttkamer and Fritz Münch as well as an introduction by Ulrich Scheuner . Subsequently, between 1970 and 1974, he was seconded to the Federal Chancellery as a lecturer in first class .

Heinz Dröge became Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saigon on November 13, 1974 . He oversaw an ambitious development cooperation program . In early April 1975, Der Spiegel reported :

““ Panic also in front of the German embassy on Vo-Tanh-Straße. The iron gate is locked, behind the bars are members of the Federal Border Police in civilian clothes with their submachine guns slung around their necks, in front of the gate hundreds of Vietnamese who misunderstood a statement made by Chancellor Helmut Schmidt because they had to misunderstand it: Saigon Radio had it on Wednesday alleged that the Chancellor had promised mass admission of Vietnamese refugees to West Germany. An attack on Eisenfor promises help to those who are 'special cases' and don't think they are ""

Heinz Dröge remained Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saigon until the embassy closed and flew to Bangkok on April 24, 1975 with the staff of the German embassy in Saigon in a Convair plane .

In 1975 Dröge succeeded Ernst Friedrich Jung as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Nigeria and remained in this post until 1979, when Bernd Oldenkott succeeded him there. From 1979 to 1983 he himself took on the post of Deputy Political Director of the Foreign Office. Most recently, he succeeded Gerd Berendonck as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Algeria in 1983 and remained in this position until he retired, whereupon Murad Wilfried Hofmann succeeded him.

His marriage to Gerda Dobbert on March 20, 1951 resulted in two daughters and two sons, including Markus Dröge , who was Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia from November 14, 2009 to November 16, 2019 .

Publications

  • Man as an economic date. A contribution to economic research . Dissertation University of Cologne 1951. In: Volkswirtschaftliche Schriften , Issue 4, 1952, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin
  • The Federal Republic of Germany and the United Nations . Writings, Volume 23. Munich 1966

Honors

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1966 (PDF) Personal Register, p. 13
  2. ↑ Dröge in Section 302 Volume 1017745, files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1975. Volume 1. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57754-9 , ISBN 978-3-486-57754-9 , pp. 511 ff. ( Books.google.de )
  3. ↑ Indochina: We didn't expect that . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1975 ( online ).
  4. ↑ Bonn diplomats leave Saigon. No negotiating cabinet has been formed yet. In: Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung of April 25, 1975
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
predecessor Office successor
Wilhelm head Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Vietnam
November 13, 1974 - April 24, 1975
Ernst Friedrich Jung Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Nigeria
1975–1979 		Bernd Oldenkott
Gerd Berendonck Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Algeria
1983–1987 		Murad Wilfried Hofmann
personal data
SURNAME Dröge, Heinz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dröge, Heinz Kuno
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH April 15, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH July 12, 2005
Place of death Bonn