Karl-Günther von Hase

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Karl-Günther von Hase (1964)

Karl-Günther Paul Otto von Hase (born December 15, 1917 on Gut Wangern , Wroclaw district , Lower Silesia ; † May 9, 2021 ) was a German officer , diplomat and general manager . In World War II he served as a general staff officer . From 1962 to 1967 he was head of the press and information office of the federal government under the chancellors Adenauer , Erhard and Kiesinger . After that he was State Secretary inFederal Ministry of Defense and as such a political official . From 1970 to 1977 he worked as the German ambassador in London . From 1977 to 1982 he was ZDF director.

family

Günther von Hase came from a Silesian landowner family. He was the son of the Prussian major a. D. Günther von Hase (1881–1948), who served as a police officer from 1920 until his early retirement in 1934, most recently as Colonel of the State Police and Chief of Staff in Berlin , and his wife Ina, née Hicketier (1882–1972). His father was considered "politically unreliable" by the National Socialists. His uncle Lieutenant General Paul von Hase was Wehrmacht commander of Greater Berlin from 1940 to 1944 and was executed in 1944 as a resistance fighter against National Socialism; the Lutheran theologian and resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer († 1945) was a cousin of Hases. The important Protestant church historian Karl von Hase was one of his great-grandfathers .

Hase married by marriage by proxy on 30 December 1949 church in - February 13, 1945 and - after his release from captivity in Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein from East Prussia , a daughter originating nurse Renate Stumpff (1925-2011) of the Colonel General of Air Force Hans-Jürgen Stumpff . The couple had five daughters.

Von Hase lived in a city villa in the Schweinheim district of Bonn ( Bad Godesberg ).

von Hase in Kiel, 1968

Military background

Von Hase was born in Wangern, Lower Silesia, but grew up in Berlin. Here he attended the humanistic Prinz-Heinrich-Gymnasium in Berlin-Schöneberg , where he graduated from high school in 1935 . After subsequent Reichsarbeitsdienst he struck the career of a professional officer and entered 1936 in Hannover / Celle as a cadet of artillery -Regiments 19 into the armed forces a. In 1936/37 he attended the war school in Potsdam.

During the Second World War he took part in war events in Poland, France, the Soviet Union and Italy: in 1940 he became regimental adjutant of the 92nd artillery regiment, and later battery chief in the 92nd Panzer Artillery Regiment. In 1942 he was wounded in Russia. As a member of the Führerreserve in the High Command of the Army, he was in 1943 on the staff of the 161st Infantry Division and the General Staff of the XI. Army Corps (11th) commanded. In 1943/44 he completed the general staff course in Hirschberg.

In May 1944 he was assigned to the General Staff , in June he was promoted to major . He was then assigned as the first General Staff Officer (Ia) to the Staff of the Commander in Chief of the Operations Zone Alpine Foreland , where he worked for the LXXVI. Army Corps (76th) was stationed in Predappio in northern Italy . After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on July 20, 1944 , as the nephew of the resistance fighter Paul von Hase - like his parents - he was initially taken into " kin custody" and given leave of absence from the Army Personnel Office , but then sent to the Eastern Front to under Colonel Heinrich Remlinger the fortress Schneidemühl To defend.

In February 1945 he was taken prisoner by the Soviets , where he remained in various camps until December 1949.

Civil career

In 1950/51 von Hase attended the diplomatic school in Speyer ; then he joined the diplomatic service of the Foreign Office (AA). 1951/52 he was active in the protocol . With a scholarship he studied American history in 1952 at Georgetown University , an elite university in Washington, DC / USA. From 1953 to 1956 he was a delegation counselor at the German Embassy in Ottawa in Canada, which was headed by Carl Werner Dankwort at the time . In 1956, von Hase became deputy head of the press department at the Foreign Office in Bonn as Legation Councilor 1st class, which he took over as head in 1958; Foreign minister at that time was Heinrich von Brentano (CDU). In 1959 he was promoted to the lecturer of the Legation Council, 1st class. In 1961 he was appointed head of the Political Department West II with the rank of ministerial director , the youngest in German post-war history. This was responsible for the NATO, Defense, Great Britain, USA, Central and South America and Sub-Saharan Africa units.

From 1962 to 1967 he was the successor of Felix von Eckardt , who became Federal Plenipotentiary in Berlin, in the rank of civil servant state secretary, head of the press and information office of the federal government and government spokesman for the cabinets of Konrad Adenauer , Ludwig Erhard and Kurt Georg Kiesinger (all CDU).

In July 1967, von Hase unanimously elected director of the Deutsche Welle elected, but he left in October again at the request of Chancellor Kiesinger center to 1968 in place of Karl Carstens , who joined as chief in the Federal Chancellery, Permanent State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Defense to become. With the end of the grand coalition in 1969 and the accompanying change of minister from Gerhard Schröder (CDU) to Helmut Schmidt (SPD) in 1969, he resigned from this office.

From 1970 to 1977 he succeeded Herbert Blankenhorn as the German Ambassador to the German Embassy in London in the United Kingdom. After that he was appointed permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the EC in Brussels, but was then nominated to succeed the ZDF founding director Karl Holzamer . From 1977 to 1982 he was director of the ZDF. During this time he was a. a proponent of the dual broadcasting system . In 1978 he traveled with a delegation to the People's Republic of China. In 1982 he did not run again and was adopted into retirement; his successor was Dieter Stolte . In 1985 he was the special envoy and head of the Bonn delegation during the pan-European CSCE cultural forum in Budapest, Hungary.

miscellaneous

Von Hase was also active as an author and editor, he was co-editor of the book The Soldiers of the Wehrmacht .

In 1967 he was a member of the Broadcasting Council of the international broadcaster Deutsche Welle and from 1968 to 1970 of Deutschlandfunk . Since 1968 he has been a member of the (honorary) advisory board of the Federal Chancellor Adenauer House Foundation in Bad Honnef-Rhöndorf. From 1981 to 1993 he was first chairman of the German-English Society ; because of his commitment to the Königswinter Conference, he was appointed honorary president. In 1981 he was President of the General Assembly of the Prix ​​Italia international radio award . In 1984 he was one of the founding members of the European Institute for the Media in Düsseldorf and Paris. From 1987 to 1995 he was chairman of the European Advisory Committee of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty. In 1989 he joined the CDU and became a member of the council of elders. After June 2020 he was the highest-ranking former soldier in the German Wehrmacht who was still alive.

Awards

1933-1945

after 1945

Fonts (selection)

literature

  • Walter Henkels : 99 Bonn heads , revised and supplemented edition, Fischer-Bücherei, Frankfurt am Main 1965, p. 112f.
  • Genealogical manual of the nobility , noble houses B volume XXII, page 163, volume 115 of the complete series, CA Starke Verlag, Limburg (Lahn) 1998, ISSN  0435-2408
  • Karl-Günther von Hase , in Internationales Biographisches Archiv 46/1987 from November 2, 1987 Supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 25/2013, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)

Web links

Commons : Karl-Günther von Hase  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ZDF mourns former director Karl-Günther von Hase , presseportal.de , May 10, 2021
  2. ↑ FOREIGN OFFICE: The way up - DER SPIEGEL 39/1961 of September 20, 1961.
  3. ↑ Honorary Presidents ( Memento from January 4, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), debrige.de, accessed on April 13, 2017.
  4. ^ Certificate for Rudolf Meffert: Ex-Mayor for 60 years in the CDU. In: General-Anzeiger Bonn . August 20, 2014, accessed May 11, 2021 .
  5. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.6 MB).
predecessor Office successor
Herbert Blankenhorn German Ambassador to the United Kingdom
1970–1977 		Hans Hellmuth Ruete



personal data
SURNAME Hase, Karl-Günther von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hase, Karl-Günther Paul Otto von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German officer, diplomat and general manager
DATE OF BIRTH December 15, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Wangern , Wroclaw District , Lower Silesia
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2021