Karl Günther Motz

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Karl Günther Motz (born February 29, 1912 in Elberfeld , † August 7, 1978 in Ließem (Wachtberg) ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Motz studied law and economics at the University of Marburg , the University of Bonn and the University of Oxford . During his studies in 1931 he became a member of the Alemannia Marburg fraternity . In 1935 he passed his first state examination in law. In May 1936 he was at the University of Marburg with his work The position of the civil service in state and national community in changing perceptions that deals with the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service and the Nuremberg Laws , engaged to a doctor of law doctorate. After his legal clerkship and entrance examination, he was employed in the Reich Ministry of the Interior . He was drafted into the Wehrmacht . From 1945 to 1953 he worked in the coal industry. In 1954 he joined the Foreign Service. From 1958 to 1960 he had exequatur as consul in Boston . From 1960 to 1963 he had exequatur as consul general in Chicago . From August 12, 1963 to 1966, he was ambassador to La Paz ( Bolivia ). From 1967 to 1971 he was a manager in the trade policy department and the politics department in the Foreign Office. From 1971 to 1973 he had exequatur as consul general in San Francisco . From 1974 to 1976 he was ambassador to Accra ( Ghana ).

literature

  • Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Sub-Volume 4: M-Q. Winter, Heidelberg 2000, ISBN 3-8253-1118-X , p. 139.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In it he expresses his view only as "confessors of National Socialism" should be civil servants and who himself was active in the fascist Reich Ministry of the Interior, is now ambassador to Bolivia. In the BND file Barbie there is talk of the then German ambassador to Peru, Günther Motz, whose (information from East Berlin) [1] [2]
  2. ^ [3] , Bulletin of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Deutscher Bundes-Verlag, 1974, p. 817 [4] [5]
predecessor Office successor
Kajus Köster Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in La Paz / Bolivia
August 12, 1963 to 1966 		Karl Alexander Hampe
Helmut Müller Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Accra / Ghana
1974 to 1976 		Herbert Weil
personal data
SURNAME Motz, Karl Günther
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH February 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH 7th August 1978
Place of death Ließem (Wachtberg)