Heinz Krekeler
Heinz Ludwig Hermann Krekeler (born July 20, 1906 in Bottrop , † August 5, 2003 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German physical chemist , politician ( FDP ) and ambassador .
Life
His father was Heinrich Krekeler (* 1875 in Höxter ; † 1945 in Bielefeld ), lawyer and notary in Bielefeld.
After graduating from elementary school and secondary school, he studied chemistry at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Göttingen and Berlin. In 1930 he was promoted to Dr. phil. doctorate, then he worked as a chemist in Berlin and was from 1934 to 1945 employee of the IG paint industry , Ludwigshafen- Oppau plant.
On December 4, 1931, he applied for a US patent (1,863,661) for the production of fluorine by the so-called fluorine electrolysis process. This request was granted on June 21, 1932.
From 1945 he was co-owner of Eilers und Schünemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbh in Bremen . As a co-founder and member of the FDP, he helped set up a district association in Schötmar . Heinz Krekeler, together with the newspaper publisher Max Staercke from Detmold, brought together the two existing district associations and founded the Lippe regional group of the FDP on September 6, 1946. After the incorporation of the state of Lippe into the state of North Rhine-Westphalia on January 21, 1947, the two regional groups Minden and Lippe were merged under his chairmanship .
He was honorary representative of the economic administration of the French occupation zone in the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Koblenz and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Freiburg im Breisgau and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Tübingen (US zone of occupation).
From 1946 to 1947 he was a member of the Landtag of Lippe and in 1946 also a member of the Provincial Council of Westphalia, from April 20, 1947 to June 17, 1950 a member of the first Landtag of North Rhine-Westphalia . Krekeler moved into the state parliament via the state list (position 5) of the FDP and became deputy chairman of the FDP state association of North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of the Liberal World Union.
From 1950 to 1951 he was German Consul General in New York, USA. From 1951 to 1953 chargé d'affaires of the German representation in the USA; from July 1953 to 1958 first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the USA. From 1958 to February 1964 he was a member of the EURATOM Commission of the European Community (EC) in Brussels , then lecturer for diplomatic and international relations at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and at the University of Political Sciences in Munich .
Heinz Krekeler died on August 5, 2003 in Bad Salzuflen . In his honor, the FDP Lippe donated a citizens' award with the Dr.-Dr.-hc.-Heinz-Krekeler medal and prize money of 300 euros. Under the umbrella of the Max Planck Society, he left the Heinz L. Krekeler Foundation to research the conditions that guarantee peaceful coexistence between peoples.
Honors
- 1953: Large Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1971: Great Cross of Merit with star and shoulder ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
Works
- Heinz Ludwig Krekeler: Germany’s representation abroad . Isar-Verlag, 1952.
- Heinz Ludwig Krekeler: Diplomacy . Olzog-Verlag, 1965.
- Heinz Ludwig Krekeler: The foreign policy: An introduction to the basics of international foreign policy . Olzog-Verlag, 1967.
Web links
- Heinz Krekeler at the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia
- Literature by and about Heinz Krekeler in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krekeler, Heinz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Krekeler, Heinz Ludwig Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German chemist, politician (FDP), MdL and ambassador, EURATOM commissioner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bottrop |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 5, 2003 |
| Place of death | Bad Salzuflen |