Karl Wilde (diplomat)
Karl Wilde (born July 7, 1910 in Bochum ; † 1984 ) was a German ministerial official and diplomat who was, among other things, envoy between 1954 and 1956 and, most recently, ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Luxembourg .
Life
After graduating from high school, Wilde studied law at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , the Friedrich Wilhelms University of Berlin , the Philipps University of Marburg , the University of Geneva , the University of Paris and the University of Cambridge , which he won first as well as the second state examination in law. 1934, at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen his promotion to Doctor of Law with the thesis The different treatment of indirect and direct perpetrator . In 1939 he became a civil servant in the Reich Ministry of Economics and worked there until 1945. During the Second World War he was a soldier in the Wehrmacht and became a prisoner of war .
After his release from captivity, Wilde became an employee of the Transport Administration of the United Economic Area in 1947 . After the establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany on May 23, 1949, he moved to the Federal Ministry of Transport as a civil servant before he was personal assistant to Federal Chancellor Konrad Adenauer from January to May 1951 .
Subsequently, on June 1, 1951, Wilde moved to the newly established Foreign Office , where he was last lecturer in the Legation Council . In 1954, he succeeded Josef Jansen as the Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany in Luxembourg. During his tenure, the embassy became the on April 11th, 1956 Embassy converted and he thus the first ambassador. Shortly afterwards, however, he was replaced by Karl Graf von Spreti .
publication
- The different treatment of the direct and indirect offender , dissertation University of Erlangen, 1934
Web links
- Literature by and about Karl Wilde in the catalog of the German National Library
- CV ( Federal Archives )
- Entry in the Munzinger archive
Individual evidence
- ↑ The personal advisor to the Federal Chancellor (Federal Archives)
- ^ Announcement on the prospect of filling foreign missions (cabinet minutes of January 12, 1954)
- ↑ Tobias C. Bringmann: Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815-1963: Foreign Heads of Mission in Germany and German Heads of Mission Abroad from Metternich to Adenauer , p. 121, Walter de Gruyter, 2001, ISBN 3-1109-5684-5
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wilde, Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1910 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bochum |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1984 |