Rüdiger von Pachelbel

Rüdiger von Pachelbel (born April 29, 1926 in Berlin ; † October 27, 2011 in Munich ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Rüdiger von Pachelbel came from the house of Pachelbel-Gehag and studied since 1948 at University College London and the University of Oxford , and in 1952 at Harvard University .

From 1953 to 1957 Rüdiger von Pachelbel found a job in the foreign department of the Press and Information Office of the Federal Government in Bonn, where he was appointed editor-in-chief of the English-language bulletin of the federal government in January 1954. Then he was press attaché at the German embassy in London until 1963 . After that he was initially deputy head and from 1963 head of the press and information department at the embassy in Cairo until diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany were broken off in May 1965 by the Egyptian head of state Gamal Abdel Nasser . As a legation counselor , he then headed the press and information department at the embassy in Lagos ( Nigeria ). From 1968 to 1972 von Pachelbel was press attaché at the German embassy in Rome and lived in Piazza Navona . In 1972 the then Federal Foreign Minister Walter Scheel brought him to Bonn as a foreign policy spokesman ("AA spokesman") .

In Vorwärts the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation Erhard Eppler had conditioned the admission of the Estado Novo (Portugal) (to which the federal government in Bonn via Samuel Cummings weapons) to the European Economic Community with an end to the colonial war in Mozambique . AA spokesman Rüdiger von Pachelbel said on television:

"As a moralizing aunt with a raised index finger and missionary zeal from the rest of the family of nations, we cannot fall on the alarm clock."

- Rüdiger von Pachelbel : Press spokesman for the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany

General Staff Colonel Hossein-Wahdatehagh, military attaché of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in Bonn had the conflict between Iran and Iraq said: "We can already for 1000 years with the Arabs do not get along, and not us." Since the oil crisis had When asked whether Iran was an area of ​​tension, von Pachelbel responded with a resounding “No”, whereby arms exports to the regime of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi received their export permits from the Foreign Trade Office in accordance with the War Weapons Control Act . In autumn 1974, von Pachelbel accompanied Hans-Dietrich Genscher to negotiations in Moscow . When, at the time of the Schmidt government in 1975, the negotiations on a consular agreement between Austria and the GDR became public, which ran counter to the Hallstein doctrine , Hans-Dietrich Genscher had von Pachelbel explain:

"The right to consular care within the meaning of Article 116 of the Basic Law , which the Federal Republic of Germany is entitled to under the general rules of international law, must therefore not be restricted by consular agreements concluded by third countries with the GDR."

- Rüdiger von Pachelbel : Press spokesman for the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany

At the end of 1975, Rüdiger von Pachelbel took over the embassy in Beirut ( Lebanon ) as ambassador , just as the Lebanese civil war broke out. This resulted in extremely adventurous and dangerous living and working conditions.

His next ambassador post from 1979 to 1984 in Addis Ababa ( Ethiopia ) was similarly problematic , where difficult tasks had to be solved by the military regime and the hungry population. Subsequently, from 1984 to 1988, von Pachelbel took over the post of ambassador in Athens ( Greece ) and finally in Copenhagen ( Denmark ) until his retirement in 1991 .

After his retirement (1991) he spent the winter months in Munich and the summer months in the Castello di Albola near Radda in Chianti , which he restored .

Grass and by Pachelbel

Günter Grass intended to visit Moscow in the summer of 1973. Two days before the visit, the ambassador conveyed Ulrich Sahm via fax his recommendation not to make the trip. As spokesman for the Foreign Ministry, Rüdiger von Pachelbel spread in an official statement on the recommendation of Sahms that she was

“Certainly no reason to hang the matter on the big tin drum . Otherwise we will still get into the dog years "

- Rüdiger von Pachelbel : Press spokesman for the Foreign Office of the Federal Republic of Germany

For his part, Grass accused the Foreign Ministry in Bonn of “kicking things quietly” and “boisterous cynicism”.

Honors

• Right knight of the Order of St. John
• 1979: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1984: Large Federal Cross of Merit

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Harvard Crimson , November 13, 1952, Local Experts Tangle On Strength of Nazi Recovery in Germany
2. ^ Rüdiger Freiherr von Pachelbel . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1957 ( online - Mar. 20, 1957 ).
3. ↑ http://www.london.diplo.de/Vertretung/london/en/02/Kanzlei__und__Residenz/An__Embassy__in__Belgrave__Square/Setting__Fire__Seite.html
4. ↑ Rich in the Ghetto . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1970 ( online - May 11, 1970 ).
5. ^ Fifth column . In: Der Spiegel . No. 39 , 1973 ( online - 24 September 1973 ).
6. ^ Doing business with Leo . In: Der Spiegel . No. 7 , 1974 ( online - 11 February 1974 ).
7. ↑ Ostpolitik: When lightning strikes . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1974 ( online - 4 November 1974 ).
8. ↑ Diplomat Genscher: Not a millimeter back . In: Der Spiegel . No. 5 , 1975 ( online - Jan. 27, 1975 ).
9. ↑ The impetus was given . In: Der Spiegel . No. 37 , 1973 ( online - 10 September 1973 ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Walter Hellenthal	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Beirut 1975–1976	Johann Christian Lankes
Johann Christian Lankes	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Addis Ababa 1979–1984	Bernard Oldenkott
Helmut Sigrist	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Athens 1984–1988	Werner Ludwig Botho Hubertus Graf von der Schulenburg
Helmut Redies	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Copenhagen 1988–1991	Hermann Gründel