Josef Holik

Josef Holik (born April 20, 1931 in Tetschen , Czechoslovakia ) is a former German diplomat .

family

His grandfather was the farmer Josef Luksch (1866–1936), a member of the Moravian Landtag (1894), the Reichrat (1900) and a senator in Prague (1920–1935). His father was Josef Holik, who had a doctorate in agriculture, who died in 1973. In 1945 the Holik family was expelled from South Moravia . Josef Holik senior worked in the sugar industry in southern Germany.

Life

Holik made in 1950 in Uffenheim his high school . He studied law , administrative law and political science at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg and the German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer and - with a scholarship from the US State Department - three semesters at Colgate University . In 1960, Holik was awarded a doctorate degree at the University of Würzburg on the subject of the influence of political forces on the development of the American constitutional jurisdiction. jur. PhD.

In 1961 Holik entered the foreign service. He was an attaché at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moscow. In 1963 Holik was consul of the Federal Republic of Germany in Madras and met his future wife and colleague Wiltrud Holik . He also worked at the Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to NATO in Brussels and from 1971 to 1974 Ambassador to Somalia . After working in the Foreign Office , from 1984 to 1987 he headed the German delegation which negotiated troop reductions in Europe ( MBFR ).

From 1987 to 1995, Holik was the German government's representative for disarmament and arms control issues.

In retirement he was involved in a number of bodies, including as a member of the UN Secretary-General's Disarmament Advisory Council and, until 2003, in the Bonn International Center for Conversion . From 1996 to 2001 he chaired the Saint Barbara Foundation for landmine clearance.

Publications

• Disarmament as a pioneer of the turning point in Europe. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-428-15200-1

• Arms Control - Looking Back at a Brief Era. Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-428-12928-7
• Arms Control Achievements: A Solid Foundation. In: Michael Brzoska and Peter J. Croll (Eds.): Promoting Security: But How and For Whom? , Bonn 2004 (Bonn International Center for Conversion), pp. 95-96, ISSN  0947-7322
• Conventional disarmament in the Cold War. An instrument for political change in Europe , in: Portal Militärgeschichte, June 16, 2014, URL: http://portal-militaergeschichte.de/holik_abruestung (last accessed on August 19, 2014)
• "Influence of Political Forces on the Development of American Constitutional Justice". Dissertation. Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg, 1959

Awards

• 1988: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1995: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1991: Large Silver Decoration with the Star for Services to the Republic of Austria

Web links

• Literature by and about Josef Holik in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.hsrgroup.org/publications/bicc_brief30.pdf
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Ruth	Federal Government Commissioner for Arms Control and Disarmament 1987–1995	Rudiger Hartmann