Herbert Schwörbel

Herbert Schwörbel (born November 11, 1911 in Thessaloniki ; died July 8, 1988 in Kiel ) was a German lawyer , business journalist and diplomat . From 1964 to 1968 he was the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Ceylon .

Life

The son of the diplomat Heribert Schwörbel and Betsy Schwörbel, née Schmid, spent his childhood at his father's place of work in Thessaloniki and Istanbul , where he attended the community school until 1918. In 1921 he moved to Württemberg with his family . After attending the citizen school in Freudenstadt , the humanistic grammar school in Wiesbaden and the Abitur in 1930 at the Stella Matutina boarding school , he completed a law degree at the universities in Vienna and Berlin . In 1939 he was awarded the dissertation topic of freedom of the seas and MFN, their validity under international law from the standpoint of people's right to existence for doctor of law doctorate .

Schwörbel was a member of the NSDAP and the SA . He worked from 1935 to 1937 at the Reich Office for Foreign Trade and, after attending the Reich Press School, from 1937 to 1938 he worked as an editor for the press service of the Leipzig Exhibition Office , which he was last head of. In 1938 he resumed his work at the Reich Office for Foreign Trade and then worked as a reporter for the express service for official and private commercial news GmbH in Athens . From 1942 to 1945 he was employed as a press attaché with his father, the special representative in press matters at the embassy of the German Reich in Athens.

Schwörbel worked as a business journalist until 1953 and was at times manager of the United Business Services in Frankfurt am Main . In 1954 he joined the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany and until 1955 he worked as a consul in Istanbul. From 1955 to 1960 he was deputy to Herbert Blankenhorn , the ambassador of the Adenauer government at NATO headquarters based in Paris . In 1960 he moved to the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn , where in 1961 he took over the management of the salary department.

Schwörbel was ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Colombo from 1964 to 1968 and from 1969 to 1974 envoy to the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) based in Vienna .

On November 8, 1963, the Erhard government signed a capital aid program with the Sirimavo Bandaranaike government in Ceylon. From February 7 to 14, 1964, Bruno Leuschner , Deputy Prime Minister of the GDR , visited Colombo and on February 14, 1964 a consulate general of the German Democratic Republic was opened in Colombo. On February 25, 1964, the first consul general of the GDR, Ludwig Zempelburg , arrived in Colombo and before the end of the day a capital aid agreement for 200 million Sri Lankan rupees was signed, whereupon the Erhard government terminated its capital aid agreement. On February 11, 1965, Schwörbel from Colombo reported on a conversation with the General Director in the Ceylonese Foreign Ministry, Glanville Sextus Peiris: Peiris reported that a delegation from the German Democratic Republic is expected in Ceylon to support a loan assistance agreement for 80 million Ceylonese, which has been offered since 1963 Complete rupees. Peiris pointed out that the Ceylonese Foreign Ministry had previously tried to avoid a “further appreciation” of the GDR from becoming obvious. After the end of economic aid from the USA and Germany, the situation in Ceylon was so desperate that every offer of help had to be accepted.

On November 24, 1967, Kurt Georg Kiesinger was with Dudley Shelton Senanayake . Schwörbel reported on November 27, 1967: The Senanayke government was “for the reunification of Germany and the right of the German people to self-determination”. Senanayake mentioned the conflict in Vietnam and the Middle East crisis . The Middle East crisis hit Ceylon with the closure of the Suez Canal . He explained in detail the economic difficulties of Ceylon. Kiesinger informed about the current difficulties in the FRG and offered help.

Honors

• 1977: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

• The international official in the service of the United Nations. Subjects, tasks and working conditions. Foreign Office, Bonn 1980.

literature

• Biographical manual of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Volume 4: p . Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service, edited by: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2012, ISBN 978-3-506-71843-3 , pp. 231ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Hans Peter Mensing (arr.): Adenauer. Rhöndorf edition. Letters 1959–1961. Schöningh, Paderborn 2004, ISBN 3-506-70128-2 , p. 417.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Freedom of the seas and most-favored nation treatment, their validity under international law from the point of view of the right of peoples to exist. (Dissertation), Berlin / Leipzig 1939, pp. 75ff.
3. ↑ Braunbuch: Diplomats Ribbentrops in the Foreign Service Bonn ( Memento from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) In: Braunbuch - Diplomats Ribbentrops in the Foreign Service Bonn.
4. ↑ Otto J. Groeg (Ed.): Who's Who in Germany. Volume 2: M-Z . Who's Who Book & Publishing, Ottobrunn 1974, p. 1588. ( Google Books ).
5. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-11431-1 .
6. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius: Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1965. Volume 1, Oldenbourg, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-486-56071-9 , S. XLVII ( digitized version )
7. ↑ See wire report No. 194 by Ambassador Schwörbel, Colombo, of November 28, 1967; Referat IB 5. Volume 294 based on: Rainer Achim Blasius, Ilse Dorothee Pautsch: files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1967. Volume 3, Oldenbourg, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56322-X , p. 1506 ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Theodor Auer	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Colombo 1964–1968	Franz Josef Hoffmann