Philip Mayer Kaiser

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Philip Mayer Kaiser (born July 12, 1913 in Brooklyn , New York City , † May 24, 2007 in Washington, DC ) was an American government official and diplomat who was, among other things, the United States' ambassador to Austria .

Life

Studies, Ministry of Labor staff and university professors

Philip Mayer Kaiser was of Ukrainian - Jewish descent and the youngest of five children of Morris Bear Kazas and his wife Temma Sloven Kazas. After attending school, he began an undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin – Madison , which he completed in 1935 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). After that he took with financial support from a Rhodes Scholarship is a postgraduate studies at Balliol College of Oxford University in which he in 1939 with a Master of Arts graduated (MA). After his return, he began his professional activity as an economist on the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in 1939 and was then head of the project operations department of the Board of Economic Warfare from 1942 to 1944 , before joining the Board of Economic Warfare from 1944 to 1946 acted as chief of the planning staff of the administrative authority for foreign trade FEA (Foreign Economic Administration) .

In 1946, Kaiser moved to the United States Department of Labor , where he was initially an administrative assistant to the head of the international affairs department. After he was director of this subdivision between 1947 and 1949, he last acted from 1949 to 1953 as head of the international affairs subdivision (Assistant Secretary for International Affairs) . He was then between 1955 and 1958 special assistant to the then Democratic Governor of New York , W. Averell Harriman , and from 1958 to 1961 professor at the American University .

Ambassador to Senegal, Mauritania, Hungary and Austria

Philip M. Kaiser first worked as a diplomat during the tenure of the Democratic US President John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson . He was appointed Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Senegal on June 22, 1961 , where he presented his letter of accreditation on July 20, 1961 to succeed Henry Serrano Villard . He held this post until May 18, 1964, when Mercer Cook succeeded him. At the same time he was also the successor of Villard as ambassador to Mauritania , with headquarters in Dakar accredited, and on 14 July 1962 in Nouakchott an independent embassy was established, the interim chargé (charge d'affaires ad interim) William L. Eagleton was. Kaiser also held the post of ambassador to Mauritania until May 18, 1964 and was then replaced by William L. Eagleton. As ambassador to Senegal, he played a key role during the Cuban Missile Crisis (October 14, 1962 to October 28, 1962) when he convinced the President of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor , to prohibit the Soviet Union from closing Dakar-Yoff Airport for refueling Soviet military aircraft use. After completing his activities as Ambassador to Senegal and Mauritania, he moved to the Embassy in the United Kingdom in 1964 , where he was permanent representative of the Ambassador until the Republican government of US President Richard Nixon took office in 1969.

As ambassador to Hungary, Philip Mayer Kaiser played an important role in the return of the St. Stephen's crown and the other crown insignia to Hungary in 1978

Following was Philip Mayer Kaiser 1969-1975 Chairman and Managing Director of Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. During the administration of Democratic President Jimmy Carter , he returned to the diplomatic service and was on July 7, 1977 United States Ambassador in Hungary appointed where he presented his credentials on August 4, 1977 as the successor to Eugene V. McAuliffe . He held this position until March 9, 1980, was then of , Jr. Harry E. Bergold replaced. He was then appointed Ambassador of the United States to Austria on February 19, 1980, as the successor to Milton Wolf , and presented his accreditation there on March 25, 1980. On March 2, 1981, he was recalled from this post, whereupon Theodore E. Cummings replaced him. He also played an important role in the return of the St. Stephen's Crown and the other crown insignia to Hungary as part of US President Jimmy Carter 's policy of détente, although Hungarian exile associations in the United States had previously been critical of a return to the Communist People's Republic of Hungary had expressed. After retiring from the foreign service, he also worked for the American Academy of Diplomacy founded in 1983, the Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training (ADST) founded in 1986, the Council of American Ambassadors (CAA) and the Council on Foreign Relations think tank founded in 1921 (CFR).

Kaiser was married to Hannah Greeley Kaiser until his death and was the father of three sons. His eldest son Robert G. Kaiser was a journalist, managing editor and foreign correspondent for The Washington Post , the second son David E. Kaiser taught as a professor of contemporary history at various universities, while the youngest son Charles Kaiser is also a well-known journalist. Philip Mayer Kaiser died in Sibley Hospital in Washington .

publication

  • Journeying Far and Wide - A Political and Diplomatic Memoir , 1993

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Chiefs of Mission for Senegal
  2. ^ Chiefs of Mission for Mauritania
  3. ^ Chiefs of Mission for Hungary
  4. ^ Chiefs of Mission for Austria
personal data
SURNAME Kaiser, Philip Mayer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American government official, university professor, and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Brooklyn , New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2007
Place of death Washington, DC