Rainer Keßelring

Rudolf-Rainer Keßelring (born December 7, 1934 in Bad Kissingen , † September 25, 2013 in Aufkirchen (Berg) ) was a German administrative lawyer and intelligence officer.

Career

Keßelring was the son of the naval construction officer Dipl.-Ing. Kurt Kesselring , who died in a plane crash on October 6, 1935. He was later adopted by Field Marshal Albert Kesselring , a cousin of his father. The mother was Irmgard Keßelring geb. Shopkeeper .

Keßelring passed the interpreting exam for Spanish at the Regensburg interpreting school. In 1950/51 he was in high school in Williamstown (Massachusetts) , from which he graduated in 1951. He also attended Williams College . In July 1952 he passed the high school diploma in Carolinum (Ansbach) . He began to study law at the Eberhard Karls University and on August 2, 1952, he was active in the Corps Rhenania Tübingen . On February 27, 1954 inactivated , he moved to the University of Lausanne and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn . In 1956 he passed the first state examination in law. He was a trainee lawyer in the district of the district court of Ansbach . In the fall of 1959 he was at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the University of Bonn to Dr. iur. PhD. After he had passed the assessor examination in Munich in 1960, he worked at the Bavarian Administrative Court in Munich , the District Office in Munich and the Bavarian Ministry of the Interior . In 1960 he became a government assessor . Since 1961 a member of the government , he moved to the federal service in 1965 . He was promoted to the High Government Council in 1966 and in 1968 at the Consulate General in Hong Kong . As a counselor he was from 1970 to 1973 at the German Embassy Tokyo . In 1975 he was transferred to the German Embassy in Paris and promoted to Counselor First Class. In 1977 he joined the Federal Property Administration as a government director . After four years at the German Embassy in Madrid , he returned to the Federal Property Administration in 1984.

With the Federal Intelligence Service since 1964 , in 1991 he became Senior Government Director and First Director and Head of Department 4 (Administration and Central Tasks) of the Federal Intelligence Service. In 1996 he was appointed Vice President of the BND by Chancellor Helmut Kohl . In August 1998 he retired for reasons of age.

Keßelring was married on September 2, 1967 to the translator Johanna Renata Freiin von Lotzbeck (1935–2017), daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Eugen Freiherr von Lotzbeck (1882–1942) and his second wife Emma nee. Countess of Castell-Castell (1907-2004). There were three children from the marriage, including the officer and historian Agilolf Keßelring .

See also : List of German diplomatic missions abroad

Honors

• Order of the Rising Sun 3rd Class (1974)
• Ordre national du Mérite (1978)
• Magistral Knight of the Sovereign Order of Malta
• Orden de Isabel la Católica , Commander (1989)
• Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon (July 16, 1998)

Publications

• 500 years parish and pilgrimage church , Stein and Schnell, Regensburg, 2000 ISBN 3-7954-1318-4 .

Web links

• Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 133 , 1120
2. ↑ Spiegel of May 29, 1957  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ), online, accessed on October 4, 2013
3. ↑ Dissertation: Contribution to the criminology of road traffic offenses, illustrated using the example of the offenses condemned by the Nuremberg District Court in 1955 .
4. ↑ Rudolf-Rainer Kesselring (xxx) , in: Rainer Assmann , Ernst Napp and Ingo Nordmeyer: Die Tübinger Rhenanen (corps list and corps history), 5th edition 2002, p. 242 f.
5. ^ Lists of medals from the Office of the Federal President