Horst Osterheld

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Horst Osterheld (born April 9, 1919 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ; † July 27, 1998 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat and foreign policy advisor.

Life

He spent the period 1937–1947 with military service and in captivity.

1941–1942 and 1947–1950 he studied law and economics, where he worked for a foreign trade company from 1949–1950.

In 1951 he joined the Foreign Service and served in Paris (1953–1955), at the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO (1955–1957) and in Washington (1958–1960).

Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer brought him to the Federal Chancellery in 1960, where he was head of the foreign affairs office until 1966 and then head of Department I, responsible, among other things, for cabinet matters of the Foreign Office, BMJ, BMWi, BML, BMA and in personnel matters as well as for fundamental questions of Germany policy. When the construction of the Berlin Wall began, he, Hans Globke and Heinrich Krone were divided on whether Adenauer should go to Berlin. Adenauer's decision not to visit the capital is one of his most controversial decisions. Osterheld got along less well with Ludwig Erhard; He was unable to prevent the tensions in the Franco-German and transatlantic relationship, the dispute in the federal government between the Atlantic and Gaullists, and the tug-of-war over the multilateral force's atomic surface fleet .

He had four sons with his wife Ingrid.

In autumn 1969 he was put into temporary retirement after the change of government, but reactivated by Foreign Minister Walter Scheel and sent as ambassador to Chile from 1970 to 1971. After Karl-Heinz Sohn had announced the recognition of the GDR by Chile in February 1971, Osterheld feared for his credibility and asked Scheel for another post, whereupon he was again put into temporary retirement.

1973–1975 he worked for Missio in Aachen.

When the Holy See intended to establish independent dioceses on the territory of the GDR around 1975, Osterheld led the “fight against the tearing up of German dioceses on the inner-German border” at the Secretariat of the German Bishops' Conference . From 1976 he was secretary of the commission for universal church tasks and head of the central office for universal church tasks.

1980–1984 he was in the office of the Federal President as head of Department II (abroad, minutes, press).

Publications

  • The enforcement of decisions of the European Coal and Steel Community in the Federal Republic of Germany ; 1954
  • Foreign travel d. Heads of government
  • The struggle for Germany policy in Chile 1970/71
  • Konrad Adenauer: a character image ; 1973
  • Konrad Adenauer: Life and Politics ; 1975
  • Konrad Adenauer, 1876/1976 ; 1975
  • Franz Schubert: Fate and Personality ; 1978
  • I'm not leaving with a light heart ... 'Adenauer's last years as Chancellor ; 1986
  • Obviously Strauss is no longer a competitor ...
  • Konrad Adenauer: a biographical essay ; In: Die Bundeskanzler (1993), pp. 27–90

literature

  • Ulrich Schlie: Horst Osterheld and his time ; 2006

supporting documents

  1. ^ Cabinet minutes online "Osterheld, Horst" (3.17 :). In: bundesarchiv.de. June 4, 2016, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  2. ^ Hans Booms: The Cabinet Protocols of the Federal Government: 1963 ; P. 524 ( limited preview in Google Book search)
  3. ↑ Horst Osterheld / Introduction: Ulrich Schlie: Innenansichten der Macht. In: The Political Opinion No. 442, 2006, pp. 37-41-
  4. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, June 29, 2006, No. 148 / page 7: God and the German question. In: FAZ.net . June 29, 2006, accessed January 7, 2017 .
  5. ↑ GVK - Common Union Catalog - 2.1. In: gso.gbv.de. Retrieved January 7, 2017 .
  6. ↑ a b Horst Osterheld: "Strauss obviously no longer a competitor ..." In: Der Spiegel . No. 47 , 1986 ( online ).
personal data
SURNAME Easter hero, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and foreign policy advisor
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein
DATE OF DEATH July 27, 1998
Place of death Bonn