Josef Jansen (diplomat)

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Josef Jansen (born October 28, 1909 in Essen , † January 2, 1966 in Munich ) was a German diplomat and district administrator in the Zell and Mayen districts .

Life

After attending a grammar school in Essen , Josef Jansen studied history and new languages ​​at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , the University of Burgundy and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . After his doctorate as Dr. phil. In 1933 he passed the state examination for higher teaching post in 1934 . As a staunch opponent of the Nazi regime he did not want to enter the civil service, he went into the private sector , initially as managing director of a jam factory. Between 1939 and 1943 he was the commercial director of the Greek light bulb factory in Athens , a subsidiary of Osram GmbH .

In 1943 he began his military service , which he completed as an interpreter in the Balkans. After the end of the Second World War and his release from British captivity, he initially returned to the private sector and was briefly managing director of the Ruhr Area Wholesale Association .

In 1946 he was appointed district administrator for the Zell / Mosel district. He was then from 1948 to April 1951 District Administrator of the Mayen district in the Eifel.

On April 10, 1951, he entered the diplomatic service and was the first German diplomat sent to Luxembourg as consul general after the war . On May 29, 1952, he was appointed envoy . For his services to the relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and Luxembourg, Grand Duchess Charlotte of Luxembourg awarded him the Grand Cross of the Order of the Oak Crown on the occasion of his departure in February 1954 .

Between 1954 and 1956 Jansen was head of the Germany department in the Foreign Office. From 1956 to October 6, 1960, he was envoy 1st class at the embassy in Paris / France. Afterwards, at the suggestion of State Secretary Karl Carstens , he took over as Ministerial Director of Department West I and from 1963 to 1964 of Department I (Political Department). In this capacity, he led the negotiations that led to the Franco-German Treaty of January 23, 1963 (Elysee Treaty).

Jansen was most recently ambassador to the Holy See until his death on January 2, 1966 . His successor was Dieter Sattler .

literature

  • Hans Booms, Ulrich Enders, Konrad Reiser: The cabinet minutes of the federal government. Volume 14: 1961. Oldenbourg, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-486-57584-8 , p. 335 ( digitized version )
  • Alfons Friderichs: Jansen, Dr. phil. Gerhard Josef in personalities of the Cochem-Zell district. Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , pp. 167-168.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The originally planned posting of the then Consul General in Geneva, Rudolf Thierfelder , as successor to Jansen as envoy first class to the embassy in France was canceled in 1960 by the Foreign Office in response to French pressure because of Thierfelder's activity in the Justice Group of the Military Commander- in- Chief , headed by Judge General Hans Boetticher Paris withdrawn in World War II . See: Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes and Moshe Zimmermann: The Office and the Past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, pp. 684, 804, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2
  2. ↑ Ulrich Lappenküper: The German-French Relations, 1949-1963. Volume 2: 1958-1963. Oldenbourg, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-486-56522-2 , p. 1526 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ The Diplomatic Corps at the Holy See. ( Memento of the original from January 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.apostolische-nachstieg.de
predecessor Office successor
Albert Hilger van Scherpenberg German ambassador to the Holy See
1964–1966 		Dieter Sattler
personal data
SURNAME Jansen, Josef
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH eat
DATE OF DEATH 2nd January 1966
Place of death Munich