Ibrahim al-Istiwani

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Ibrahim al-Istiwani (also Istuani , Arabic إبراهيم اسطواني, DMG Ibrāhīm al-Isṭiwānī ; * 1906 in Damascus ; † 20th century), was a Syrian diplomat .

Career

Ibrahim al-Istiwani was married to Amar al-Istiwani. He studied economics and law in Vienna and Damascus. At the suggestion of the consul of the German Reich in Damascus, Ferdinand Sailer, an association of former students of German universities was founded in 1935, one of the founding members of which was Istiwani and Saïd Abdul Fattāh al-Imām; with this he sent a birthday telegram to the NSDAP / AO Beirut on April 20, 1937 .

From 1935 to March 1938 he was Honorary Chancellor at the Austrian Honorary Consul Ernst Gutmann in Damascus. In June 1938 he was sent to the French embassy in Berlin as a commercial attaché at the suggestion of the Syrian Prime Minister Jamil Mardam Bey . In a telegram to the Foreign Office, Rudolf Rahn asked to ensure that people, to whom Istiwani belonged, were allowed to enter Turkey. In 1947 he was elected vice-president of a conference of the international labor organization in Istanbul .

From 1950 to October 1952 he was the Syrian Consul General in Cologne . On May 15, 1952, he proposed to Theodor Kordt that compensation payments from the Luxembourg Agreement be made dependent on compensation for the Palestinian refugee problem through a United Nations body . From October 1952 to 1953 he was Envoy Extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire of the Republic of Syria in Bad Godesberg and was appointed State Secretary in the Syrian Foreign Ministry in 1953. From 1956 to 1958 he was ambassador in Bonn . From 1958 to October 4, 1961 he was Ambassador of the United Arab Republic in Buenos Aires .

From August 31, 1962 he was again ambassador of the Syrian Arab Republic in Bonn. The Erhard government took up diplomatic relations with the government of Levi Eschkol with an exchange of notes on May 12, 1965 , whereupon al-Istiwani ceased relations on May 13, 1965.

Honors

literature

  • Who's Who in UAR and the Near East: The Greatest Biographical Work in the Middle and Near East. - Cairo, 1959

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Götz Nordbruch , Nazism in Syria and Lebanon: The Ambivalence of the German Option, 1933–1945
  2. ↑ Österreichisches Jahrbuch, Bundespressedienst, 1935 p. 478; 1936 p. 411
  3. ↑ Nordbruch, 2009, p. 173
  4. ^ Die Zeit , 1950, Guests from the Middle East
  5. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius, Martin Koopmann, Joachim Wintzer, files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1952 p. 378 f.
  6. ↑ Die Zeit , 1953, Bridge to Damascus
  7. ^ ABC , October 5, 1961, Dimisión de otros tres embajadores de la RAU
  8. ^ Tobias C. Bringmann , Handbuch der Diplomatie, 1815-1963: Foreign Mission Heads in Germany , p. 401
predecessor Office successor
Head of the Syrian diplomatic mission in Bad Godesberg from
1950 to 1954 		Jamal Farra
Jamal Farra Syrian ambassador in Bonn
1956 to 1958 		Jamal Farra
Ambassador of the United Arab Republic in Buenos Aires
1958 to October 4, 1961 		Javdat Atassi
Jamal Farra Syrian ambassador in Bonn from
1962 to May 13, 1965 		Shtewi Seifo
personal data
SURNAME al-Istiwani, Ibrahim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Istuani, Ibrahim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Damascus
DATE OF DEATH 20th century