Helmut Rückriegel

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Helmut Rückriegel (born November 20, 1925 in Niedergründau ; † January 25, 2016 ) was a German diplomat.

Life

Helmut Rückriegel studied New Languages, Comparative Linguistics, Political Science and Comparative Religious Studies at the University of Marburg and the University of Heidelberg from 1946 to 1951 , with Friedrich Heiler among others . It was 1954 in Marburg with the work Prayer seals of the "metaphysical poets" to Dr. phil. PhD. After graduating, he entered the civil service.

He worked closely with Karl Carstens and was his personal advisor in the 1960s and later head of the personal office of Federal President Karl Carstens (1979–1984).

Rückriegel joined the Foreign Office in the 1960s and took over the management of the German Information Center in New York as legation councilor, later as first class councilor and deputy head of the NATO, WEU (military affairs) and defense department “Of the Foreign Office. In 1968 he became a lecturer in the Legation Council and head of Section 221 “Security, Disarmament and Arms Control in Europe” in the Foreign Office, then as Counselor 1st class the representative of the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tel Aviv .

On January 15, 1985, he was appointed Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bangkok , and from 1988 as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Dublin . He then worked in the Federal Ministry of the Interior . Together with the Interior Minister at the time, Wolfgang Schäuble , he was significantly involved in the 1990 Dublin Agreement .

He was Catholic and had been married to Brigitte born in 1967. Krentzin; the marriage has two children.

Una Voce Movement

Rückriegel has been involved since 1967 with the Una Voce movement , a movement in the Roman Catholic Church that originally campaigned for the withdrawal of the liturgical reforms of the Second Vatican Council and the general reintroduction of mass in the Tridentine rite . On the initiative of Erich Vermehren, he was President of Una-Voce Germany from 1992 to 2005. He was honorary president of the International Federation Una Voce (FIUV).

swell

  • Paperback of Public Life, Federal Republic of Germany for 1986 / 87-1989 / 90, Volume 39 , p. 223
  • Who is who ?: Das Deutsche who's who , 2004, p. 1175

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice Helmut Rückriegel , FAZ , January 30, 2016
  2. ^ Karl Carstens: Memories and Experiences , Walter de Gruyter 1993, pp. 229f., 542, 626
  3. ↑ Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, issues 1-72 , Press and Information Office, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1988
  4. ↑ "Dublin Convention" ( Memento from January 31, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) at bmi.bund.de , accessed on January 31, 2016
  5. ^ Obituary by Helmut Rückriegel , gloria.tv , accessed on January 31, 2016
  6. ↑ Helmut Rückriegel, FIUV President d'honneur, RIP , FIUV, accessed on January 31, 2016 (English)
  7. ↑ Helmut Rückriegel: Memories of Pope Benedict XVI. ( Memento of October 25, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) , Gregorius Magnus 2013, p. 11, accessed on January 31, 2016 (English)
predecessor Office successor
Johann Christian Lankes German ambassador in Bangkok
1985–1987 		Bernd Oldenkott
Horst Grabert German Ambassador in Dublin
1988–1992 		Martin Elsässer
personal data
SURNAME Backbolt, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Niedergründau
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2016