Johannes Dreyer Pohl

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Johannes Dreyer Pohl (born April 10, 1905 in Burgersdorp , Cape Colony , † after 1965) was a South African ambassador .

Life

Pohl attended Gray College in Bloemfontein . In 1922 he joined the Ministry of Justice and was appointed public prosecutor and judge. From 1938 to 1939 Jan Christiaan Smuts was private secretary . He was Assistant Secretary and Undersecretary of the Department of External Affairs from 1940 to 1948. In Lisbon he was Ministre plénipotentiaire from October 30, 1949 to September 10, 1951 . Subsequently he was again Ministre plénipotentiaire , this time in from September 18, 1951 to January 29, 1956 in Rio de Janeiro . From 1956 to 1965 he was ambassador in Brussels, then the government of Italy and finally ambassador in Bonn .

predecessor Office successor
Philip R. Botha South African Ministre plénipotentiaire in Lisbon
October 30, 1949 to September 10, 1951
Stephanus-François du Toit
Eugene Kevin Scallan South African Ministre plénipotentiaire in Rio de Janeiro
September 18, 1951 to January 29, 1956
Terence Henry Eustace
Philip Rudolph Botha Ambassador to Brussels
January 31, 1956 to December 5, 1958
Jan Ruiter Jordaan
Stephan Francois du Toit Ambassador to the government in Italy
December 6, 1958 to August 29, 1961
François Christiaan Erasmus
Johann Kunz Uys Ambassador in Bonn
September 1, 1961 to July 3, 1965
Johann Kunz Uys

Individual evidence

  1. Ed .: Jean van der Poel, Selections from the Smuts Papers: Volume VII, August 1945-October 1950