Peter Scholz (diplomat, 1930)

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Peter Paul Carl Scholz (born November 4, 1930 in Nieder Hermsdorf , Neisse district ; † August 12, 2019 in Sassari ; pseudonyms : Peter Gauers , Miro ) was a German diplomat . From 1976 to 1978 he was the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Hanoi ( Vietnam ).

Life

Scholz came from a family rooted in Silesia ; his grandfather black silver bought and renovated the porcelain factory in Königszelt , his grandfather Scholz and his father held leading positions in Silesian credit institutions. First, Scholz attended the humanistic grammar school in Neisse. After the expulsion of his family from Silesia, he continued his education up to the Abitur at the St. Albertus-Gymnasium in Königstein im Taunus . In the summer of 1950 he began studying economics and social sciences in Frankfurt am Main . Soon afterwards he stayed in South West Africa (Namibia), where he worked on a family farm, then did a bank apprenticeship and continued his studies in economics and social sciences at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa . In 1953 he returned to Germany and studied in Hamburg and later in Dublin .

In 1956 he was awarded a doctorate in Graz ( Styria ). rer. pole. PhD . In 1954 he came to the German Foreign Office and made his career as a diplomat there. During his service, he received 13 posts, most of them in Asia and Africa . He was a lecturer in the Legation Council in the Foreign Office when he went to Hanoi in mid-July 1976 to the embassy that was only opened on April 20, to officially become the first extraordinary and plenipotentiary ambassador for the Federal Republic of Germany in Vietnam, which was unified after the Vietnam War, from August 23, 1976 to represent. At the end of 1978 he was replaced by his successor Reinhard Holubek . Subsequently, Scholz was ambassador in Antananarivo ( Madagascar ) from 1979 to 1983 , at the same time as ambassador to Mauritius , and from 1983 to 1986 in Lomé ( Togo ). His last post from 1986 until his retirement in 1994 was in Manila , Philippines .

From 1950 to 1975 Scholz worked - later part-time with the approval of the Foreign Office - for ARD , Deutschlandfunk in Cologne and the " Handelsblatt " published in Düsseldorf .

Scholz last lived in Pfalzen ( South Tyrol ). He had been married since 2008 and had an adult daughter from a previous relationship.

Honors

Publications

In addition to his many years of journalistic activity for various media, Scholz also published numerous articles and a. on questions of the East-West conflict and the Franco-German relationship in the magazine "Foreign Policy" . In 1997 he gave his autobiography Exotic Post. What you can do and experience in the Foreign Service. A life path from Neisse to Manila (EOS-Verlag, St. Ottilien 1997, ISBN 3-88096-477-7 ).

Peter Gauers

Scholz published under his pseudonym Peter Gauers

  • Japan in competition , in: Study series Japanwirtschaft , Volume 9, German-Japanese Business Office, 1968
  • In the shadow of China , Basler Nachrichten publishing house, 1968

literature

  • Walter Habel: Who is who ?: The German Who's Who , Volume 27, Page 1225, Verlag Schmidt-Römhild, 1988, ISBN 3795020085 ( excerpt )
  • Thomson Gale: Kürschner's German Non-Fiction Calendar , Volume 1, Page 373, Verlag KG Saur, 2001, ISBN 3598241801 ( excerpt )
  • Short biography for his 80th birthday, in: Schlesischer Kulturspiegel , issue 45, page 81, Stiftung Kulturwerk Schlesien, Würzburg 2010, ISSN  1437-5095

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice. Retrieved October 8, 2019 .
  2. ^ Robert Picht: Germany, France, Europe. Balance of a difficult partnership , page 379, Verlag Piper, 1978, ISBN 3492023169 ( excerpt )
  3. ↑ Annual Report of the Federal Government , Press and Information Office of the Federal Government, 1976, page 46 ( excerpt )
  4. ↑ Summary of world broadcasts: Far East , Part 3, Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corp, 1976 ( excerpt )
  5. ↑ Der Spiegel , Volume 30, Issues 19–27 / 1976, Page 156 ( excerpt )
  6. ↑ Ilse Dorothee Pautsch: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany , Volume 2 (1st half of 1977), page 26, Institute for Contemporary History, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich 2008 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Scholz, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scholz, Peter Paul Carl (full name); Gauers, Peter (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 4th 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieder Hermsdorf , Neisse district, Silesia
DATE OF DEATH August 12, 2019
Place of death Sassari