Tadateru Konoé

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Tadateru Konoé ( Japanese 近衞 忠煇 , Konoe Tadateru ; born  May 8, 1939 in Tokyo Prefecture as Moriteru Hosokawa ( 細 川 護 煇 , Hosokawa Moriteru )) is a Japanese functionary of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement .

He graduated from Gakushūin University with a degree in political science in 1962 and graduated from the London School of Economics in 1964 in the field of international relations . Since 1964 he has worked in various positions for the National Red Cross Society of Japan, including in 1988 as Secretary General, from 1991 to 2005 as Vice President and since 2005 as President.

In the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, he was Director of the Bureau for Disaster Risk Reduction from 1981 to 1985 , a member of the Finance Commission from 1985 to 1993 and Vice President from 2005 to 2009. From 1995 to 2003 he was a member of the Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, which is the highest organ of the movement between the four-yearly international Red Cross and Red Crescent Conferences. From 2009 to 2017, he succeeded the Spaniard Juan Manuel Suárez Del Toro Rivero as the first representative of an Asian country as President of the International Federation.

family

Tadateru Konoé has been married to Yasuko ( 甯 子 ), the eldest daughter of Prince Mikasa (Takahito) of Japan , and father of the screenwriter Tadahiro Konoe ( 近衞 忠 大 ) since 1966 . His older brother is former Japanese Prime Minister Morihiro Hosokawa . His father was the politician Morisada Hosokawa ( 細 川 護 貞 ) and his maternal grandfather the Prime Minister Fumimaro Konoe . After his son Fumitaka died in Soviet captivity, his wife Masako Tadateru adopted into the Konoe family . His birth name was Moriteru ( 護 煇 ).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 近衛 （近衞） 家 （摂 家） . (No longer available online.) In: Reichsarchiv ～ 世界 帝王 事 典 ～ . Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; Retrieved January 2, 2010 (Japanese). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / nekhet.ddo.jp
  2. ↑ 日本人 名 大 辞典 . Kodansha, Tokyo 2009, 近衛 甯 子 ( online version ).
personal data
SURNAME Konoé, Tadateru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 近衞 忠煇 (Japanese); Konoe Tadateru; 細 川 護 煇 (Japanese, maiden name); Hosokawa Moriteru (maiden name); 近衞 護 煇 (Japanese); Konoe Moriteru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese Red Cross functionary, President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (2009-2017)
DATE OF BIRTH May 8, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Tokyo prefecture