Richard Bottler

Richard Bottler (born July 20, 1903 in Münster in Alsace , † June 12, 1985 in Munich ) was a German diplomat .

life and career

Richard Bottler grew up as the son of high school professor Ludwig Bottler in Mülheim an der Ruhr . After graduating from the state high school in 1921 , he initially worked as a volunteer at the August-Thyssen-Hütte in Hamborn and the Gutehoffnungshütte in Oberhausen. From 1922 to 1923 and from 1927 to 1930 he studied law at the Universities of Münster, Cologne and Bonn and obtained his doctorate in 1932. jur.

In 1935 he was accepted into the Foreign Service of the German Reich. In addition to foreign assignments in the consulate in Rotterdam , in the consulate general in New York and in the German embassy in Washington, DC , he was repeatedly deployed in various functions in the trade policy department of the Berlin headquarters.

At the end of the war he resigned from the Foreign Service with the title of Legation Councilor and subsequently found various positions as a consultant in business, most recently in 1950 at the Klöckner-Werke in Duisburg .

When he was resumed in the Foreign Service in 1951, he was initially employed as a division head in the Political Department before he was sent to Windhoek as a consul in 1952 . Further missions abroad took him to Liberia (1955–1959) and Burma (1962–1966) as ambassador . When he was transferred to temporary retirement (1966), he settled in Munich, where he then worked as a lawyer.

literature

• Maria Keipert, Peter Grupp, Historical Service of the Foreign Office (ed.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871–1945 . tape 1 : A-F. Schöningh, Paderborn 2000, ISBN 3-506-71840-1 .

Other sources

• City archive Mülheim an der Ruhr, holdings 1550 (Mülheim personalities)