Karl Wall

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Karl Wand (born January 31, 1920 in Gerolstein ; † October 13, 2009 ) was a German ambassador .

Life

Karl Wand's father was the teacher Ernst Wand (born May 29, 1891, † October 3, 1963), a member of the ( Center Party ). Karl Wand served as minister with Alois Mertes , attended the Catholic boarding school in Maria Laach Abbey with his brother Ernst Wand († 1942 in the Crimea ) and, from 1934, the Siebengebirgsgymnasium in Bad Honnef . After graduating from high school , Wand was engaged in Reich labor service, military service and war. On July 20, 1944 wall officer in German-occupied Paris and until November 1945 prisoner of war of the United States Armed Forces .

From 1946 Karl Wand studied history . After completing his doctorate, Wand initially worked as a volunteer at a newspaper. On June 8, 1956, Karl Wand had an interview with Konrad Adenauer, as a result of which he became the Chancellor's press officer. Then Wand went into the foreign service, where he was initially deployed in Scandinavia and married Dagny Wand, ballet dancer at the Royal Opera (Stockholm) in Sweden . You have four daughters. Dagny Wand directed The National Ballet of Angola .

Before Brand became ambassador to Angola in 1983, he had several assignments in Africa, including as press attaché in Nigeria, as ambassador to Benin (1971 to 1975) and as ambassador to Malawi (1980 to 1983).

In 1983, Wand moved to the People's Republic of Angola as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany and was received by the President of the People's Republic of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos , to receive his letter of accreditation. During his tenure in Angola, Wand was also accredited with the government of São Tomé and Príncipe , based in Luanda. The civil war in Angola (1975 to 2002) outlasted Wand's tenure in Angola.

From 1984 or 1985, until his retirement in 1986, Wand was the German ambassador to Gabon . After retiring, Wand lived in Stockholm until his death in 2009.

Under the title An Africa Expedition to Death. Germans among other peoples , volume 12. Roether, Darmstadt 1986, Wand wrote a biography about Albrecht Roscher .

His biographer was the brief head of the press and information office of the federal government , Heinrich Brand .

Publications

  • Two brothers in the Hitler War.
  • Lyre, sword and love. 1992 (poetry book)

Web links

predecessor Office successor
Udo Horstmann Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cotonou
1971–1975 		Hans-Joachim Heldt
Erhard Holtermann Ambassador of the German Federal Government in Malawi
1980–1983 		Theodora van Rossum
Hans-Joachim Dunker Ambassador of the German Federal Government in Luanda, Angola
1983–1986 		Hans Helmut Freundt
Günther Koenig Ambassador of the German Federal Government in Libreville, Gabon
1984–1986

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nya talböcker maj 2010. In: legimus.se. Accessed December 30, 2018.
  2. ^ Wall, Karl. In: svenskagravar.se. Accessed December 30, 2018.
  3. ↑ Wilma Herzog: Letter from Angola. In: Heimatjahrbuch 2010. S. 223.
  4. ↑ At 12:25 p.m., Dr. Karl Wand for an interview - he became the Federal Chancellor's First Press Secretary - according to the cabinet minutes of the Federal Government. Volume 9: 1956. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-486-56281-9 , p. 404, footnote 1 ( digitized version )
  5. ^ Spiegel (Ed.): Development aid with the watering can . No. 49/1964 , pp. 59 ( spiegel.de [PDF]).
  6. ^ Karl Wand from Gerolstein (in: Eifelzeitung from June 11, 2008) ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, Bulletin, 1983
  8. ^ Josef Zierden: Literary travel guide Rhineland-Palatinate. Brandes & Apsel, 2001
  9. ↑ Steck, Reinald Legation Secretary in the "State Visits, Events" section of the Foreign Office, since 23 May 1977 Legation Councilor at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Lusaka: files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1977. Volume 2, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58338-0 , p. 1879 ( digitized version )
  10. ↑ Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany. 1979. Volume 2, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59191-0 , p. 1703 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Wall, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Gerolstein
DATE OF DEATH October 13, 2009