Horst H. Holthoff

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Horst Holthoff (1989)

Horst H. Holthoff (born March 10, 1932 in Hachenburg im Westerwald; † February 10, 2012 ) was a German diplomat .

Life

After studying law at the University of Cologne, Holthoff joined the Foreign Service and was first second secretary at the embassy in the USA until June 1965 and then first secretary there. He subsequently worked as Senior Legation Counselor First Class Head of Service Berlin the Foreign Office before he on May 2, 1968 Head of Unit for Gesandtschafts- and consular law, restitution, traffic law and civil service law in the Foreign Office in Bonn was.

Until his retirement on May 19, 1997, Horst H. Holthoff was Deputy Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU) in London and Head of Mission in the former Yugoslavia . He was also a member of the United Nations Arms Inspection Delegation in Iraq .

Even after his retirement he dealt with foreign and defense policy issues and gave lectures at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena on practical experience in crisis prevention and peacebuilding.

In 1965, he was from Cardinal Grand Master Eugene Cardinal Tisserant Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy grave in Jerusalem and appointed on May 5, 1965 in Jerusalem by Lorenz Cardinal Jaeger , Grand Prior of the German Lieutenancy invested.

He was married to Katharina E. Holthoff, b. Genschow, there are two daughters from the marriage. Among them the dementia researcher Vjera Holthoff .

Awards

Publications

  • The coordinator for Franco-German cooperation. Characteristics, possibilities and limits of an institution . In: Adolf Arndt (editor): Concretions of political theory and practice: Festschrift for Carlo Schmid on his 75th birthday on December 3, 1971 , Stuttgart 1972, pp. 424–432, ISBN 3-12-907700-6

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 18, 2012, p. 8
  2. ↑ Foreign Relations of the United States, 1964–1968, Volume XV, Germany and Berlin
  3. ↑ Files on the foreign policy of the FRG , 1968, p. 1680
  4. ↑ powi.uni-jena.de ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  5. ↑ powi.uni-jena.de ( Memento from September 11, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
  6. ↑ a b c Obituary notice. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of February 18, 2012, p. 8
  7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  8. ^ Table of contents of the Festschrift for Carlo Schmid
predecessor Office successor
... Deputy Secretary General of the Western European Union (WEU)
1989–1997 		Roland Michael Wegener
personal data
SURNAME Holthoff, Horst H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holthoff, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Hachenburg in the Westerwald
DATE OF DEATH February 10, 2012