Karl Günther Weiss

Karl Günther Weiss (born April 28, 1917 in Werdau ; † May 13, 2001 in Munich ) was a German lawyer and diplomat .

Life

Born the son of a businessman, Weiss studied law and economics in Munich , Geneva and Berlin after attending grammar school . During his studies in 1936 he became a member of the comradeship Albert Leo Schlageter / Burschenschaft Arminia Munich . In 1939 he passed his legal traineeship in Berlin. He spent his legal traineeship in Miltenberg , Berlin and Munich. After his Assessor examination was carried out in 1943 1944 promotion to Dr. iur. In 1944 he became a ministerial advisor in the Reich Ministry of Economics , where he was responsible, among other things, for the Institute for Industrial Research headed by Ludwig Erhard . As a representative of the State Secretary at a meeting on January 12, 1945, he proposed the term social market economy to Erhard for his planned economic order for the post-war period. Found unfit due to his poor eyesight , he was not drafted into military service.

After the Second World War he worked as a faculty assistant at the University of Berlin , worked in a law firm and worked as a legal advisor for Woolworth before opening his own law firm in 1947. In 1954 he became the first chairman of the Association of Relocated Ostbetriebe e. V. In 1956 he wrote a report on the integration of European refugees for the South African government. He also lectured at the College of Political Science . From 1966 to 1972 he was honorary consul for South Korea for Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg . From 1970 he prepared South Korea's participation in the 1972 Summer Olympics .

He has given numerous lectures worldwide and published his autobiography Truth and Reality in 1996 . His astrophysical-philosophical work The Universe and Its Five Dimensions (1976) remained unpublished.

Honors

• 1969: South Korean Order: Order of Diplomatic Service Merit, Third Class
• 1974: Bavarian Order of Merit

Publications

• East Asia and the change in international law. Dissertation University of Munich 1944.
• Truth and reality. The way out of the world wars into the social market economy and a future world order Homburg-Saarpfalz 1996.

literature

• Helge Dvorak: Biographical Lexicon of the German Burschenschaft. Volume I: Politicians. Volume 8: Supplement L – Z. Winter, Heidelberg 2014, ISBN 978-3-8253-6051-1 , pp. 368-369.

Web links

• Weiss, Karl Günther in the Institute for Contemporary History