Horst Grabert

Horst Grabert (right), 1972 (with Josef Ertl )

Horst Grabert (born December 12, 1927 in Berlin ; † October 10, 2011 there ) was a German politician ( SPD ) and diplomat .

Life

Horst Grabert's father worked as an accountant after his assignment as a front-line officer in World War I. Although Horst Grabert, like his Jewish mother, was baptized Protestant in 1939, Horst Grabert had to leave the Steglitz high school in 1942 . After an apprenticeship as a draftsman, he was sent to a labor camp in 1944. Without a high school diploma he was able to study at the Technical University of Berlin from 1946 after a special examination and in 1952 became a graduate civil engineer.

In 1952, Grabert joined the West Berlin Senate Administration and became a government construction trainee with the Senator for Building and Housing. In 1955 he passed the building assessor examination and subsequently rose from building officer to senior building officer, building director and in 1963 to senate director . From 1969 to 1973 he was Senator for Federal Affairs in Berlin. In the 1971 Berlin election he was elected to the Berlin House of Representatives, but resigned in January 1973 because of his work in Bonn .

From 1972 to 1974 Grabert was head of the Federal Chancellery . After his time in the Chancellery, he worked as the German ambassador to Austria (1974–1979), Yugoslavia (1979–1984) and Ireland (1984–1987).

Awards

• 1973: Large silver medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1979: Great Gold Medal for Services to the Republic of Austria
• 1984: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Works

• The riddle of Yugoslavia. In: Is the left going to war? Contributions to the debate on combat missions from a red-green point of view , ed. v. Katrin Fuchs , Peter von Oertzen and Ludger Volmer , 1993 ( ISBN 3-922489-16-8 )
• For Europe's future. In: Blätter for German and international politics , 1994, pp. 795–799
• From recognition to military service. German politics and the Yugoslavia conflict. In: Science & Peace , 2/1996 ( online )
• Woe to you if you are different. A political way of life for Germany , Stekovics, Dößel 2003, ISBN 3-89923-040-X (autobiography).

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 159.

Web links

Commons : Horst Grabert  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.munzinger.de/search/portrait/horst+grabert/0/12386.html
2. ↑ ^{a b} List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF file; 6.59 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans Schirmer	German ambassador in Vienna 1974–1979	Maximilian von Podewils-Dürniz
Jesco from Puttkamer	German ambassador to Belgrade 1979–1984	Gisela Rheker
Carl Lahusen	German Ambassador in Dublin 1984–1987	Helmut Rückriegel