Raimund Hergt

Raimund Hergt (born May 2, 1916 in Speyer ; † 1997 ) was a German lawyer and diplomat . From 1974 to 1981 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Reykjavík .

Life

Raimund Hergt was born the son of a bank director. After graduating from high school in Munich in 1936 , he did Reich labor and military service . He took part in World War II as a soldier and was most recently taken prisoner.

After his return from captivity, Hergt began studying law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he completed in 1948 with the first state examination in law. He then completed his legal preparatory service as a court trainee in Munich. He began his career in 1950 at the Federal Ministry of Justice as an employee in the department for general issues relating to the legal protection of German prisoners abroad. A year later he moved from there to the Foreign Office in Bonn , where he worked until 1959, most recently as a legation councilor. From 1959 to 1961 he worked as Counselor at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Luxembourg , from 1961 to 1968 as Consul General at the Commercial Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany in Helsinki and from 1968 to 1974 as Head of Division in the Foreign Office. From May 1974 to 1981 he was ambassador to Reykjavík ( Iceland ).

literature

• Hans-Jörg Erb (edit.): Handbook of the Federal Government. 8th legislative term. NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Darmstadt 1977, p. 67.
• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 28th edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 1989, p. 546.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Michael Borchard : The German prisoners of war in the Soviet Union. On the political significance of the prisoner-of-war question 1949–1955. (= Research and sources on contemporary history. 35). Droste, Düsseldorf 2000, p. 305.

predecessor	Office	successor
Karl Rowold	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Reykjavík 1974–1981	Jörg Krieg