Klaus Goldschlag

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Klaus Goldschlag , OC , (born March 23, 1922 in Berlin , † January 30, 2012 in Toronto ) was a Canadian ambassador .

Life

Goldschlag was the son of the lawyer Walter Goldschlag († 1930) and his wife Charlotte born. Blumenthal. One of his uncles was the writer George A. Goldschlag (born August 14, 1896 in Berlin, † June 29, 1934 ibid) Goldschlag lived as a half-orphan in the Baruch-Auerbach children's home in Berlin, from which he was transferred in 1937 by Alan Coatsworth from the German Empire was adopted to Canada .

“Christian Will Help Refugee Become Rabbi A Jewish youth has been adopted by Alan Coatsworth of Toronto and will be prepared for the rabbinate. Dr. Coatsworth asked to be permitted to take in a German Jewish refugee who wanted to become a rabbi. The lad. Klaus Goldschlag will be adopted by his Christian benefactor and after preparatory studies will be enrolled at Hebrew Union. "

His uncle Gerhard Goldschlag was deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp together with his wife in 1944 . Both were murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp . His cousin was Stella Goldschlag , who became known as a Jewish "grabber" in the service of the Gestapo.

From 1940 to 1944 Klaus Goldschlag studied at Vaughan Road Collegiate and from 1946 to 1948 at the University of Toronto . After completing his master's degree in Arabic, Goldschlag joined the foreign service of Canada. In 1972 he was the lead author of Canadian Defense Policy - A Study, also known as the "Third Option paper", published in the fall of 1972 by Mitchell Sharp on the Canadian State Department International Perspectives . In 1973 Goldschlag headed the Western Hemisphere Department in the State Department and became Deputy Secretary of State in the State Department of Canada. In this function he traveled to the German Democratic Republic and had a meeting with Oskar Fischer on July 1, 1977 . Goldschlag donated the Alan Coatsworth Memorial Scholarship

Individual evidence

1. ^ The most brilliant foreign-policy mind In: The Globe and Mail . February 2, 2012. Retrieved March 3, 2012.
2. ↑ epub.ub.uni-muenchen.de (PDF; 10.5 MB, p. 72 70/150).
3. ↑ lyrikwelt.de ( Memento from October 9, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
   Ursula Saile-Haedicke: Lord of dark adventures, my soul is on fire. Traces of life of the German-Jewish poet George A. Goldschlag. In: Kerstin Schoor (ed.): Between racial hatred and the search for identity. Wallstein, Göttingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8353-0648-6 , pp. 235-259.
4. ^ American Hebrew and Jewish Tribune. Volume 141, Issue 1, Toronto 1937 ( books.google.com ).
   Sven Kuttner (Ed.): "This plan is based on me personally ...". The Alan Coatsworth Canada Collection in early documents. University Library, Marburg 2001, ISBN 3-8185-0335-4 , p. 10 f.
5. ↑ Peter Wyden : Stella: One Woman's True Tale of Evil, Betrayal, and Survival in Hitler's Germany. Simon & Schuster, New York 1992, ISBN 0-671-67361-0 and Göttingen: Steidl Verlag 1993, ISBN 3-88243-241-1 .
6. ^ Patrick Gossage: Close to Charisma: My Years Between the Press and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. P. 132.
7. ^ In-Course Scholarships - Alan Coatsworth Memorial Scholarship. University College, accessed December 8, 2018 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
James Scott Macdonald	Canadian Chargé d'affaires in Vienna 1961–1962	Blanche Margaret Meagher
Jean-Louis Délisle	Canadian Ambassador to Ankara 1967–1971	Gerald Francis George Hughes
Wilmer James Collett	Canadian Ambassador to Rome 1973–1976	Roger Anthony Bull
Wilmer James Collett	Canadian Ambassador to Valletta 1973–1976	d'Iberville Fortier
John Gelder Horler Halstead	Canadian ambassador in Bonn 1980–1983	Donald Sutherland McPhail