Karl Bünger

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Karl Ferdinand Bünger (born March 28, 1903 in Coswig ; † 1997 in Bonn ) was a German sinologist and ambassador to South Korea .

Life

His father was Karl Bünger, psychiatrist and owner of the Büngerschen Anstalten in Wusterwitz , his mother Anna Bünger, geb. Homann. Karl Bünger attended from 1909-1921 he attended high school in Brandenburg an der Havel. After a bank apprenticeship (1921-1924) studied law and sinology from 1924 to 1927 and passed his first state examination in Berlin in 1928. In 1930 he received a diploma in Chinese from the Oriental Seminary in Berlin. In 1931 he became a Doctor of Law in Tübingen with a comparative dissertation doctorate . On December 18, 1931, he married Dorothea Breyer. On May 1, 1933, he joined the NSDAP . From November 1933 to May 1934 Bünger was a member of the SA . In 1933 he passed the court assessor exam in Berlin. From 1934 he was a consultant at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for international law. From 1936 he made two trips to China of several years . In 1936 he was a judge at the Berlin  II Regional Court for six months . From 1937 to 1938 he was legal advisor and until 1941 legal advisor for the Otto Wolff Group in China. From 1934 to 1941 he spent a long time in China; He also held a chair for East Asian law at the University of Berlin . From 1940 to 1941 Bünger was secretary at the Association for the Far East. From 1941 to 1945 Bünger acted as legal advisor at the embassy of the German Reich to the puppet government of Wang Jingwei in Nanjing . From 1942 to 1944 he taught as a professor of European law at the Comparative Law School in Shanghai , which was part of Soochow University . From 1946 to 1947 he taught as a professor of law at Tung Chi University and again at the Comparative Law School and gave lectures on European private law in English, Chinese and German.

In 1947 he was briefly interned in Ludwigsburg, nothing is known about his denazification . At the beginning of the 1950s he was a lecturer at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , habilitated in Sinology in 1951 with the support of Wolfgang Franke in Tübingen and became a professor in Freiburg. In 1960 he became ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Seoul / South Korea . From 1964 to 1969 he was Consul General in Hong Kong . In 1967 Bünger was awarded the Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1969 Bünger was appointed honorary professor for Sinology at the University of Bonn and in 1970 at the University of Tübingen.

literature

  • Maria Keipert (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 1: Johannes Hürter : A – F. Schöningh, Paderborn u. a. 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Society for Nature and Ethnology of East Asia, Hamburg, German Society for Nature and Ethnology, Tokyo: News. Issues 163–166, 1998, page 100.
  2. ↑ a b Karl Bünger: Sources on the legal history of the T'ang period . New, ext. Edition edition. Institut Monumenta Serica, Sankt Augustin 1996, ISBN 3-8050-0375-7 .
  3. ↑ a b Hartmut Walravens : “Were you able to save your library?” A sinological correspondence from the post-war period, 1946–1950 (PDF) on uni-hamburg.de. Retrieved August 7, 2019.
  4. ↑ NOAG 163–164 (1998) page 25 or 101 (PDF)
  5. ↑ Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government. Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1960, p. 1374
  6. ^ Rainer-Maria Kiesow: China mon amour. In: Journal for History of Law. No. 15/1996, pp. 465-466
  7. ↑ Walter Habel: Who is who? - The German Who's Who . 26th edition. 1987/88, p. 182
predecessor Office successor
Richard Hertz Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Seoul / South Korea
1960–1964 		Franz Ferring
personal data
SURNAME Bünger, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bünger, Karl Ferdinand (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador and sinologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 28, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Coswig
DATE OF DEATH 1997
Place of death Bonn