Ivone Kirkpatrick
Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick KCB , KCMG (born February 3, 1897 in Wellington , British India , † May 25, 1964 in Celbridge , Ireland ) was a British diplomat .
Life
After leaving school, Kirkpatrick was a soldier in the First World War . After the end of the war he switched to the diplomatic service, where he was deployed at the embassies in Rome, the Vatican and Berlin, among others . From May 13th to 15th, 1941, in London, he heard Rudolf Hess , who had recently parachuted over Scotland in order to broker peace between Great Britain and National Socialist Germany on his own .
From 1945 he held various positions in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before he took over the role of British High Commissioner in the Federal Republic of Germany in 1950 as the successor to Brian Robertson . In 1953 he returned to the Foreign Ministry, where he called for a tough stance on Egypt during the Suez Crisis . He was State Secretary there when the first ambassador to Germany, which was sovereign after the Paris Treaties came into force , Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld . In 1957 he retired.
literature
- Mussolini. Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-548-26522-7
- (with W. Rogosky): In the inner circle: memories of a diplomat. Berlin: Propylaea 1964
swell
- Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1953-57 ), accessed June 1, 2012
Web links
- Literature by and about Ivone Kirkpatrick in the catalog of the German National Library
- Newspaper article about Ivone Kirkpatrick in the press kit 20th Century of the ZBW - Leibniz Information Center for Economics .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans von Herwarth: From Adenauer to Brandt: Memories. Propylaea, Berlin / Frankfurt 1990, ISBN 3-549-07403-4 , here p. 167
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirkpatrick, Ivone |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirkpatrick, Ivone Augustine |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 3, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wellington , British India |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 25, 1964 |
| Place of death | Celbridge , Ireland |