Rolf Enders
Rolf Enders (born September 13, 1924 in Frankfurt am Main ; † 2010 ) was a German diplomat . He was ambassador to various diplomatic missions in the Federal Republic of Germany, from 1975 to 1979 in Cameroon , from 1980 to 1983 in Uganda , from 1983 to 1986 in Libya and from 1986 to 1989 in Jamaica .
Life
Enders was born the son of a painter and graphic artist and a teacher. He passed his Abitur in Frankfurt am Main in 1942, studied Slavic Studies for one semester, and was drafted into the Wehrmacht at the end of 1942 . During the Second World War , he first took part as a radio operator in the Air Force in Belgium, France, Italy, Croatia and again in Italy. To avoid being drafted into the Waffen SS, he volunteered to join the paratroopers at the end of 1944. On May 10th, he was first captured by the Americans in South Tyrol, from where he was transferred to British captivity two weeks later. After a few months working as an English-Italian camp interpreter near Taranto, he was released in December 1945. From 1946 to 1949 he studied law at the University of Frankfurt , where he passed the first state examination in 1950 and, after completing the legal preparatory service, the second state examination in 1954 . After a two-year legal assistantship, he joined the Foreign Service in 1956 . In the following year he successfully completed his attaché training .
Enders began his career in the European Department of the Foreign Office . From 1958 to 1963 he worked at the German Embassy in Cairo , first as a political advisor and then as head of the legal and consular department. From 1963 to 1965 he was Consul and Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to the German Embassy in Dar es Salaam . In 1965 he went back to Bonn as a first class councilor, where he was employed in the Foreign Office's Eastern Trade Department until 1968. He then worked from 1968 to 1972 as Consul General at the Consulate General in Dhaka and from 1972 to 1975 in the rank of Embassy Council 1st Class as permanent representative of the Ambassador at the German Embassy in Algiers .
Enders was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Yaoundé from August 1975 to November 1979 with a secondary accreditation in Equatorial Guinea . In 1980 he moved to the German Embassy in Kampala in the same position . From 1983 to 1986 he was ambassador to Tripoli . During his tenure in Libya there were around 1,500 people with German passports. Companies with headquarters in Germany such as Siemens helped to balance the trade balance with Libya. On April 6, 1985, Fathi Tarhoni shot dead Gebril El Denali (* 1955), a politician in exile who had migrated to Germany in 1979, in downtown Bonn. On April 11, 1985, Enders was briefly called to Bonn for consultations by the federal government .
From 1986 until his retirement in September 1989, Enders was Ambassador to Kingston with secondary accreditations in Belize and the Bahamas and as Consul General in the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Cayman Islands .
Rolf Enders was married twice and widowed once and had three children from his first marriage.
honors and awards
- 1969: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1974: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1979: Grand Officier de l'Ordre de la Valeur of the Republic of Cameroon
literature
- Hans-Jörg Erb (edit.): Handbook of the Federal Government. 8th legislative term. NDV Neue Darmstädter Verlagsanstalt, Darmstadt 1977, p. 52.
- Norbert Beleke (Ed.): Who is who? The German who's who. 42nd edition. Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2003, p. 311.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Life imprisonment for a Libyan. Was it a political assassination Gaddafi? In: Der Spiegel . 47/1985 of November 18, 1985.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enders, Rolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 13, 1924 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2010 |