Konrad Erwin Pakendorf

Konrad Erwin Pakendorf (born May 17, 1910 in King William's Town , † December 1980 in Slough , formerly Buckinghamshire (England)) was a South African diplomat .

Life

Konrad Erwin Pakendorf was the son of Gustav Pakendorf (born August 29, 1869 in Zerbst / Anhalt ; † September 30, 1944 Pinetown ), who was superintendent in Pietermaritzburg on behalf of the Berlin Missionary Society from 1910 .

Konrad Erwin married Christa Schütte on October 15, 1938. He attended the Merchiston Preparatory School in Pietermaritzburg and earned a bachelor's degree from the University of South Africa . In 1929 he joined the Department of Native Affairs South Africa . In 1937 he went to the foreign service of the South African Union and was employed in Berlin until 1939. From 1946 to 1956 he was on post in London. In 1962 Pakendorf was the representative of the permanent representative of the South African government at the UN headquarters . From August 24, 1966 to November 17, 1967, he had exequatur as consul general for Tokyo and Taipei .

From December 11, 1967 to 1973, he served as ambassador in Bern . In this function, he intervened with the Federal Political Department against a note from the Swiss representative at the International Conference on Human Rights held in Tehran in 1968 , which is considered Switzerland's first public, critical statement on apartheid policy .

predecessor	Office	successor
	South African Consul General in Taipei August 24, 1966 to November 17, 1967	Rudolph Johannes Francois Campbell
Herbert Hans Woodward	South African Ambassador in Bern December 11, 1967 to 1973	Oscar van Oordt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ biographical short note on www.ancestry.com (English)
2. ↑ Gustav Pakendorf viaf.org P. 10 entry on www.scopearchiv.ch
3. ^ Georg Kreis : Switzerland and South Africa 1948–1994. Final Report of the NFP 42+ commissioned by the Swiss Federal Council . Peter Lang, Bern 2007, ISBN 978-3-03911-498-6 , pp. 137 (English, limited preview in Google Book search). Short description in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
4. ↑ South Africa / Embassy in Bern (1960-) in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
5. ↑ Memo (No) Presentation of the South African Ambassador, KE Pakendorf, regarding ... of May 14, 1968 in the Dodis database of Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
6. ^ Peter Leuenberger: Commentary. (PDF) to: Thomas Widmer, Christian Hirschi, et al .: Stability in Change. Shaping Swiss South Africa Policy from 1968 to 1994 (=  Zurich Contributions to Political Science . Volume 23 ). Rüegger, Zurich / Chur 2005 . In: www.apartheid-reparations.ch. Retrieved March 5, 2017 .