Joachim Friedrich Ritter

Joachim Friedrich Ritter (born March 3, 1905 in Berlin ; † July 10, 1985 in Percha , Upper Bavaria ) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Joachim Friedrich Ritter put the Abitur at Joachimsthalerstrasse school in Templin from before to the study of law at the University of Berlin zuwandt, 1928, he laid the first, in 1933, the second state examination from 1941, he was at the University of Bonn to Dr. iur. PhD .

After a brief employment as assistant judge at District Court III in Berlin, Ritter was given leave of absence for scientific work from 1933, from 1938 to 1939 he worked as an attorney's assistant.In 1940 he opened a law firm in Munich , which he headed until 1950. In addition, Joachim Friedrich Ritter was used as a soldier during the Second World War .

At the beginning of 1951, Ritter joined the Foreign Service , which was being set up , in February of the same year he was assigned to the then Consulate General in Ottawa , Canada , and in 1952 he was appointed Legation Councilor First Class at the German embassy in Ottawa, which has now been established. In 1953 he moved to the Foreign Office in Bonn as Legation Councilor 1st class or as a lecturer in the Legation Council . In 1955 he was appointed Counselor First Class at the Embassy in London , and in 1957 he was appointed envoy . In 1961 Joachim Friedrich Ritter was called back to the Foreign Office in Bonn, where he was later appointed Ministerial Director . In 1963 he was appointed ambassador to Australia to succeed Hans Mühlenfeld , in 1968 he moved to Canada as ambassador to succeed Kurt Oppler , and in 1970 he was retired.

The Knight of the Knight of the Order of St. John and Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order , who was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with a Star, died in 1985 at the age of 80 in Percha on Lake Starnberg .

In 1939 he submitted the first translation of Friedrich von Spee's Cautio criminalis into modern German. The translation was the first volume in a new series of researches on the history of German criminal law . It was reprinted unchanged in paperback in 1982 and has had several editions since then.

publication

• Friedrich von Spee : Cautio criminalis, or, legal concerns about the witch trials, translated from Latin and introduced by Joachim-Friedrich Ritter. Böhlau, Weimar 1939 (= dissertation).
• Friedrich von Spee. 1591-1635. Spee-Verlag, Trier 1977.

literature

• Hermann August Ludwig Degener, Walter Habel: Who is who?: The German Who's Who, Volume 18, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck, 1983, ISBN 3-795-02003-4 , p. 991.
• Andrea Wiegeshoff: "We all have to relearn something": on the internationalization of the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945/51 - 1969) . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1257-9 , p. 433

Web links

• Joachim Friedrich Ritter in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)