Karl-Heinz Wever

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Karl-Heinz Wever (* 1918 ) is a former German diplomat who was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Guinea between 1961 and 1964 and Ambassador to Zambia from 1968 to 1973 and Ambassador to Botswana between 1968 and 1973 . He was also ambassador to Lesotho from 1968 to 1971 .

Life

Wever completed his studies and found employment as an employee of the higher foreign service in the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn as well as in various foreign missions such as from 1957 to 1959 as a consul in Bordeaux . He was then Legation Councilor and Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Ireland from 1959 to 1962 . Thereupon he was appointed Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Guinea in November 1961 as successor to Herbert Schröder and handed over his credentials to President Ahmed Sékou Touré on April 9, 1962 . He held this post until 1966, after which he was replaced by Walter Haas . He then worked as first class councilor and deputy head of the “Sub-Saharan Africa” department in the Foreign Office and was promoted to lecturing councilor on August 30, 1966. Most recently he was a lecturer in the First Class Legation.

Wever became ambassador to Zambia in January 1968 and took office on May 8, 1968. He remained in this position until he was replaced by Friedrich Landau in 1973. At the same time, he was also accredited as an ambassador to Botswana from 1968 to 1973 . Furthermore, he became the first ambassador in Lesotho in 1968 and held this office until June 30, 1971, when the Federal Republic closed the embassy after domestic political tensions and the declaration of a state of emergency.

After that, he was Wilhelm Haas' successor between 1973 and his replacement by Alfred Vestring in 1977 as head of the “West and Central Africa” department in the Foreign Office. He then served as Consul General in Seattle between March 22, 1978 and his retirement in 1983 . His consular district was responsible for the US states of Alaska , Idaho , Montana , Oregon and Washington .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hartmut Bastian (editor): Ullstein Handbuch , p. 251, Ullstein, 1960
  2. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1962 , p. 2210, Walter de Gruyter, 2010, ISBN 3-4867-1830-4
  3. ↑ Yearbook for Foreign Policy , p. 119, Brückenverlag, 1963
  4. ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , p. 93, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-1109-5684-5
  5. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (cabinet minutes of November 23, 1961)
  6. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1963 , p. 494, Walter de Gruyter, 1993, ISBN 3-4867-1829-0
  7. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1965 , pp. 2033 f., Walter de Gruyter, 1996, ISBN 3-4867-1822-3
  8. ^ Foreign Office Register of Persons 1966
  9. ^ Occupation of German diplomatic missions abroad (Cabinet minutes of January 17, 1968)
  10. ↑ Jürgen Dinkel: The Movement of Allied States: Genesis, Organization and Politics (1927-1992) , p. 240, Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2015, ISBN 3-1104-0418-4
  11. ↑ J. Paxton (editor): The Statesman's Year-Book 1971-72: The Businessman's Encyclopaedia of all nations , p. 484, Springer, 2016, ISBN 0-2302-7100-6
  12. ↑ Wirtschaftsdaten , pp. 57, 58, Bremen Committee for Economic Research, 1973
  13. ↑ Ulf Engel: The Africa Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1949-1999: Roles and Identities , p. 61, Lit, 2000, ISBN 3-8258-4709-8
  14. ↑ Foreign consular offices in the United States , p. 84, US Dept. of State, 1982
  15. ^ Albert Oeckl: Pocket book of public life , p. 273, Festland Verlag GMBH, 1978
  16. ↑ The Federal Republic of Germany State Handbook , p. 80, partial edition of the Bund, Part 1, C. Heymanns, 1980
personal data
SURNAME Wever, Karl-Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 1918