Peter Limbourg (diplomat)
Peter Limbourg (born April 18, 1915 in Kevelaer ; † December 28, 2015 in ibid.) Was a German diplomat .
Life
Peter Limbourg studied law and political science at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn , where in 1934 he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Ripuaria Bonn in the CV . Shortly after his first state examination in law, he was drafted into military service in 1939 and was only able to continue his education after he was released from captivity. In 1949 he passed his second state examination in law. In 1950 he entered the civil service and worked in the Foreign Affairs Office of the Federal Chancellery . From 1952 to 1955 he was Legation Counselor at the German Embassy in Paris, and from 1955 in the Foreign Office in Bonn.
He accompanied in 1955 as an official of the Foreign Office and personal assistant to Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano travel from Konrad Adenauer to Moscow and was involved in the so-called Return of the Ten Thousand , the release of the last German prisoners of war from the Second World War , which is still as of convicted of the Soviet Union as a war criminal found in Soviet captivity. In 1955 he was appointed Legation Councilor, First Class and in 1958, Lecturer, First Class Councilor. From 1961 he was first class counselor at the German embassy at the Holy See in Rome , and in 1965 he moved to the German embassy in Paris as envoy and permanent representative of the ambassador .
In 1969 he became ambassador in Athens, succeeding Oskar Schlitter . At the request of the Greek government, Limbourg was recalled as ambassador of the Federal Republic in Athens in 1972. The reason for this was his role in the departure of the opposition politician Georgios Mangakis to Germany. Mangakis, who had been sentenced to prison for alleged membership in a terrorist organization and who had been on medical leave shortly before his departure, was flown from Greece on board a German army aircraft. The Greek government claimed not to have given permission for this. Limbourg suffered a heart attack as a result of the stress of this affair. From 1973 until his retirement in 1980 he was the German ambassador in Brussels .
He is the father of the journalist Peter Limbourg .
Honors
- 1969: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1975: Great Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
- Grand Cross of the Order of the Phoenix (Greece)
- Grand Cross of the Order of Leopold (Belgium)
- 1956: Commanders Cross of the Order of the Hawks (Iceland)
- 1959: Comtu Cross of the Order of Christ (Portugal)
Web links
- Peter Limbourg in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
- Letter from the German embassy on France's policy towards NATO (Paris, February 25, 1966) CVCE
Individual evidence
- ↑ Peter Limbourg † December 28, 2015. In: kdstv-ripuaria.de. Retrieved January 2, 2016
- ↑ Peter Limbourg obituary , FAZ , January 4, 2016
- ↑ Returning from the East: Peter Limbourg. In: planet-schule.de. SWR, accessed on August 30, 2009.
- ↑ Returning from the East - Adenauer's struggle for the last 9,500 prisoners of war. In: 3sat.de. Retrieved August 30, 2009.
- ↑ Philipp Rock: Power, Markets and Morals - On the role of human rights in the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the sixties and seventies . Frankfurt a. M. (Peter Lang) 2010, ISBN 978-3-631-59705-7 , pp. 97-99.
predecessor | Office | successor |
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Oskar Schlitter |
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Athens 1969–1972 |
Dirk Oncken |
Reinhold von Ungern-Sternberg |
Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brussels 1973–1980 |
Horst Blomeyer-Bartenstein |
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Limbourg, Peter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 18, 1915 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Kevelaer , German Empire |
DATE OF DEATH | December 28, 2015 |
Place of death | Kevelaer , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany |