Karl Alexander Hampe

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Karl Alexander Hampe (born December 22, 1919 in Berlin ) is a German lawyer , historian and former diplomat who was Ambassador to Bolivia from 1967 to 1971 and Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg from 1979 to 1984 .

Life

After attending the German School in Madrid and the International German School in Brussels , he passed his Abitur in 1937 and was then employed in the Reich Labor Service (RAD). During the Second World War he did his military service and was finally dismissed from active service as a Rittmeister after a serious wound .

After the end of the war, he began to study law at the University of Brussels and the University of Hamburg in 1945 and graduated with the first and second state exams. In 1949 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation on the topic of official liability in English law. A comparative legal representation of the liability of the English crown and self-governing bodies for violations of their officials . Between 1951 and 1952 he worked as a research assistant to Hans Peter Ipsen at the seminar for public law and political science at the University of Hamburg.

In 1952 he joined the foreign service and was one of the participants in the fourth training course of the Foreign Office . After completing his career examination, he was transferred to the legation in Ireland in 1953 as secretary of the legation , before he was then delegation counselor at the embassy in Austria in 1955 . After assignments at the headquarters of the Foreign Office, he was appointed Legation Councilor at the Embassy in Nigeria in 1962 . At the Foreign Office he worked in the legal department as well as in the personnel and administration department.

1967 Hampe was the successor of Karl Guenther Motz ambassador to Bolivia and held that post until the coup of Hugo Banzer in 1971. He then returned to Bonn and, as a lecturer in the first class, became Head of Division for Argentina , Uruguay , Paraguay , Brazil and the Caribbean and then from October 15, 1977 to 1979 as Ambassador for Latin America Policy at the Federal Foreign Office.

Most recently, in 1979, he became permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and thus successor to Ellinor von Puttkamer , who was retired . In 1984 he also retired and was replaced as permanent representative at the Council of Europe by Günter Knackstedt .

After leaving the diplomatic service, he began studying history at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn in 1985 . In 1994 he received his doctorate there. phil. with a dissertation on The Foreign Office in the Bismarck Era .

Fonts

  • Official liability in English law. A comparative legal representation of the liability of the English crown and self-governing bodies for violations of their officials. Dissertation, Hamburg 1949
  • The Citizenship Law of Great Britain. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main 1951
  • The nationality law of Spain, Portugal and Ireland. Metzner, Frankfurt am Main and Berlin 1954; Addition in 1960
  • The Foreign Office in the Bismarck era. Bouvier, Bonn 1995, ISBN 3-416-02558-X ; 2nd edition, 1999
  • The Foreign Office in Wilhelmine times. Scriptorium, Münster 2001, ISBN 3-932610-15-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ilse Dorothee Pautsch: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1977. Volume 2, Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58338-0 , p. 1843 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Review: Non-fiction book. About ambassadors and privy councilors. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of August 23, 1996 (review)
personal data
SURNAME Hampe, Karl Alexander
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hampe, Karl-Alexander (different spelling of the name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin