Horst of Rome

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Horst von Rom (born May 11, 1909 in Heilbronn , † December 23, 1991 in Madrid ) was a German ambassador .

Life

He studied law , political science , linguistics and regional studies of East Asia. In 1934 he received his doctorate on preventive detention . From 1935 to 1937 he worked as a lawyer. From 1937 to 1945 he worked at the Research Office . From 1943 to 1945 he was seconded to the Foreign Office .

From 1945 to 1953 von Rom worked as a lawyer and as a lecturer at the Munich School of Politics . In 1953 he was accepted into the foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1956, as an employee of the chief of protocol, Hans Berger, he wrote "Guidelines for the preparation and implementation of state visits and events," in which he coined the term appeal to the curiosity for trellis trips by state guests in convertibles .

He was accredited at the "German Advice Center for Securities Adjustment in Salzburg", as the German government's representation from 1945 to 1959 called itself. He was accredited at the Embassy of the Federal Republic in Santiago de Chile . 1957 was promoted to Legation Councilor from Rome. From July 1962 to 1965 he was consul in Atlanta . In 1965 he was promoted to counselor. From 1965 to 1968 he was ambassador in Bamako / Mali. From November 12, 1968 Ambassador to Saigon / South Vietnam.

On November 21, 1970, Rome's President Tran Thien Khiem laid the foundation stone for a slaughterhouse near the Binh Loi Bridge in the Gia-Định Province . The slaughterhouse was seen as an essential contribution to the development of the Industrial Development Center (IDC), with which the government of the Federal Republic of Germany wanted to meet Saigon's demand for fresh beef and pork . The German federal government supported the construction of the slaughterhouse with a loan of 13.5 million German marks, with a term of 25 years, interest rate three percent. 2,400 pigs and 300 oxen were to be slaughtered in the slaughterhouse every day.

From August 18-19, 1972 visited the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) from Rome . At the turn of the year 1972/1973 the US ambassador in Saigon , Ellsworth Bunker , took an extended Christmas vacation. Horst von Rom was Doyen at the New Year's reception of Nguygun Văn Thiệu 's diplomatic corps in Saigon and was allowed to give the New Year's address.

"The invasion of communist North Vietnam - proved that the communists want to impose their doctrine on the South Vietnamese people and forcibly unite North and South Vietnam."

- Horst von Rom : January 1973

Contrary to what the international press reported, however, the South Vietnamese army had achieved "brilliant victories". But:

"Vietnam shares the suffering of all divided nations who have to sacrifice their expectations for peace."

- Horst von Rom : January 1973

The German embassy in Saigon claimed that Rome had been misquoted by French and Vietnamese journalists. The message of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saigon did not comply with the request of the editors of the weekly magazine Der Spiegel for the wording of the New Year's address.

Honors

Publications

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Family union [Lüttwitz]: Lüttwitz. In: Genealogical handbook of baronial houses. Volume 22 (= Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels , Volume 127), CA Starke Verlag, Limburg an der Lahn 2002, ISBN 3-7980-0827-2 , ISSN  0435-2408 , pp. 244-261, especially p. 257
  2. ↑ Simone Derix: Illustrated politics. State visits to the Federal Republic of Germany 1949–1990 (= Critical Studies in History . Volume 184). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2009, ISBN 978-3-525-37005-6 , p. 222 ( books.google.com )
  3. ↑ Viet-Nam Bulletin - a weekly publication of the embassy of Vietnam. (PDF) Vol 4, Number 39. Michael R. Potaski Collection, The Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University , November 30, 1970, p. 16 , accessed October 17, 2013 .
  4. ↑ history.navy.mil ( Memento from November 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive ; PDF)
  5. ↑ Nixon: As lonely as a Roman emperor . In: Der Spiegel . No. 2 , 1973 ( online ).
predecessor Office successor
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bamako
1965– 		Paul Joachim von Stülpnagel
Wilhelm head Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saigon
November 12, 1968 - November 13, 1974 		Heinz Dröge
personal data
SURNAME Rome, Horst von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH May 11, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Heilbronn
DATE OF DEATH December 23, 1991
Place of death Madrid