Lutz Gielhammer

Lutz Gielhammer (born April 24, 1898 in Altötting , † 1988 in Gauting ) was a German diplomat .

Career

Gielhammer, son of Therese Raufer and the civil servant Castulus Gielhammer, attended the secondary and commercial school in Landshut from 1908 to 1914 . He then completed an apprenticeship in banking until 1916. In 1916 he was drafted and served in the First World War . In 1919 he obtained his university entrance qualification as an external student and then studied political science in Munich , law in Jena and Berlin . In 1923 Gielhammer married Margarete ter Hell. Two years later he passed the first state examination , three years later the second state examination followed and Gielhammer received his doctorate in law at the University of Bonn with the study The political foundations of Feuerbach's criminal law theory .

In addition to his studies, Gielhammer found temporary employment as a bank clerk from 1919 to 1927. His employers included the Bayerische Vereinsbank , Deutsche Bank and the Mendelssohn banking house . From 1929 to 1938 he headed Bank Melli Iran . From 1940 he worked for two years as a consultant for IG Farben . In 1941 he went to Kabul and became head of the Rass-i-Shirs-aa-i-Aleman . A few years later he came back to Germany and in 1948 took a position as a financial advisor at the Bavarian State Ministry for Economic Affairs.

From 1950 he was a senior government councilor, later ministerial councilor, in the currency, money and credit, banks, stock exchanges and insurance department in the Federal Ministry of Finance and a member of the delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany for foreign debts.

On May 15, 1953, Foreign Minister Adenauer proposed him to the Adenauer I cabinet as head of the embassy in Tehran . In June 1953 Gielhammer joined the Foreign Service. From July 1953 to May 13, 1959 he was the German ambassador in Tehran. From mid-February to March 7, 1954, Luise and Hjalmar Schacht visited Fazlollah Zahedi .

On June 14, 1954, Mustafa Samii became State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Gielhammer paid Samii his official inaugural visit in mid-April 1954. On this occasion, the release of German assets that had been confiscated during the Second World War was discussed. After Konrad Adenauer had signed the Treaty of Rome on March 25, 1957 in Rome , he flew on to the peacock throne and visited Lutz Gielhammer.

Gielhammer was involved in the controversy over the so-called Lex Soraya in the spring of 1958 . He was appointed to the office of the Persian court marshal three times and tried to mediate diplomatically between Germany and Iran.

Publications

• Building an Industry in Iran. - Orient-Nachrichten 5. 1939, pp. 228-231, 258-259, 262-263, 292-296
• World Bank loan, in: "Der Volkswirt", 6th year, No. 27/1952.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Appointment of the Ministerialrat Dr. Lutz Gielhammer as head of the embassy in Tehran.
2. ↑ Barry Rubin, Wolfgang G. Schwanitz, Nazis , Islamists, and the Making of the Modern Middle East, p. 114
3. ^ Der Spiegel , October 2, 1957, REVIREMENT
4. ↑ Der Spiegel , June 4, 1958, LEX SORAYA

predecessor	Office	successor
Erwin Ettel	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Tehran July 1953 to May 13, 1959	Reinhold Renauld von Ungern-Sternberg