Joachim Jaenicke
Joachim Jaenicke (born August 2, 1915 in Breslau ; † May 15, 2007 in Lenggries ) was a German diplomat .
Life
His father Wolfgang Jaenicke was the League of Nations Commissioner for the Chinese government. Joachim Jaenicke did his Abitur at the German School in Shanghai .
From 1935 to 1938 he studied law and economics at the Universities of Grenoble and Geneva . In 1938 he received his License és Sciences politiques at the University of Geneva . From 1938 he studied at Haverford College in Pennsylvania , where he achieved a master's degree in 1940 . From 1941 he studied international law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy . He was interned in the USA as a German citizen. From May 8, 1945 to 1948, he was banned from traveling to the United States and taught languages and modern history.
In 1949 Jaenicke came to Munich and became special commissioner of the Bavarian Red Cross , an organization banned by the Allied Control Council . At the end of 1949 he was appointed as a consultant in the administration of the Bizone in Frankfurt am Main . In 1950 he came to the Federal Ministry for the Marshall Plan .
In July 1950 Jaenicke joined the Foreign Service and was accredited at the German Embassy in Washington. From March 1956 he headed the press department of the Foreign Office . As Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs of NATO, Jaenicke worked on the Harmel Report until 1969 .
From 1970 to 1974 Jaenicke was ambassador to Yugoslavia.
At the fourth United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Nairobi in 1976, Joachim Jaenicke temporarily headed the German delegation and stated at a press conference:
"The idlers should first get used to working themselves, before they ask other countries for money."
During Jaenicke's tenure as ambassador to Buenos Aires from 1977 to 1980, State Secretary Günther van Well negotiated with Jorge Rafael Videla for the delivery of Unit 2 of the Atucha nuclear power plant by Kraftwerk Union for three billion German marks . Joachim Jaenicke denied to the German Press Agency that the government of Jorge Rafael Videla was a military dictatorship . In his opinion Argentina was in a “state of emergency” as a “consequence of the international terror situation” and the military had only one goal “namely to be able to return power to the hands of civilians”.
In 1980 Jaenicke retired.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Joachim Jaenicke . In: Der Spiegel . No. 17 , 1956 ( online ).
- ↑ Never seen it before . In: Der Spiegel . No. 24 , 1976 ( online ).
- ↑ Hair-raising kind. Germans who are politically persecuted in Latin America are reluctant to help Bonn's diplomats . In: Der Spiegel . No. 28 , 1980 ( online ).
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Peter Blachstein |
German ambassador to Belgrade 1970–1974 |
Jesco from Puttkamer |
| Jörg Kastl |
German ambassador in Buenos Aires 1977–1980 |
Paul Verbeek |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jaenicke, Joachim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1915 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 15, 2007 |
| Place of death | Lenggries |