Wire report
Wire report (abbreviation: DB ; also wire message or more recently also diplomatic correspondence ; abbreviation: DKOR ) is a term for encrypted telegrams for the transmission of confidential diplomatic messages within the sphere of activity of the Federal Foreign Office . Strictly speaking, it is the transmission of a report from a diplomatic mission to Germany . The opposite way, the (encrypted) transmission of diplomatic dispatches from the Foreign Office to the diplomatic mission , was called wire decree . For particularly urgent messages, there is the Citissime! or Citissime at night! . In the latter case, delivery must also be ensured at night (e.g. by waking the responsible head of department).
Technical process
The wire report is still the classic form of reporting by German diplomatic missions abroad, especially on political issues, even if the reports are no longer sent by telegram, but via encrypted e-mail . There are also written reports, mail reports and simple e-mails that are chosen for less important topics.
structure
A wire report traditionally consists of three parts, which are overwritten with Summary , Details and Evaluation . Instead, a dichotomy into summary and evaluation and supplementary and individual is increasingly being used. At the beginning they either contain the note For information or With the request for instructions . Wire reports from the head of the representation from or in his absence chargé drawn and is responsible; the actual author is indicated in the heading. The usual diction of a wire report is concise and pointed. Important terms are highlighted with two hyphens; Country names and other terms are abbreviated. A typical introductory sentence could e.g. B. read: After SVN StP resigned, Parliament was dissolved yesterday evening; New elections are scheduled for --20.3 .--. (SVN StP = Slovenian President)
Individual evidence
- ^ Heinrich W. Beuth: Government is in writing: report, instruction and submission. In: Enrico Brandt, Christian Buck (ed.): Foreign Office. Diplomacy as a profession. 3rd, updated edition. Leske + Budrich, Opladen 2003, ISBN 3-8100-3885-7 , pp. 119–128, here p. 122 f.