Rolf Otto Lahr

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Rolf Otto Lahr (right) with Jacobus Gijsbertus de Beus

Rolf Otto Lahr (born November 6, 1908 in Marienwerder ; † September 14, 1985 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat .

Life

After graduating from the Arndt-Gymnasium in Berlin-Dahlem , Lahr studied law in Berlin, Gießen and Freiburg and in 1934 became a court assessor in the Reich Ministry of Economics . During his studies he became a member of the Corps Guestphalia Berlin (1927) and Teutonia Gießen . Lahr joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 and also became a member of the SA in 1933 . After participating in the Second World War as a soldier and doing various jobs, he first joined the trade department of the Federal Ministry of Economics in 1949 . In 1953 he came to the Foreign Office in Bonn.

In 1955, as head of the delegation for the Franco-German Saar negotiations, he played a major role in the negotiations on the integration of the Saarland into the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1957/58 he was the chief negotiator in the negotiations on the first trade and consular agreement with the USSR and the repatriation of German nationals in the Soviet Union. After a brief assignment as ambassador to the EEC / EURATOM (1961), he was appointed State Secretary in the Foreign Office in the same year. In this role he was involved in efforts to prevent planned lectures by the historian Fritz Fischer in the USA.

In 1969 Lahr became the German ambassador in Rome. He held this post until his retirement in January 1974. Until the end of that year, he also remained the German representative at the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

Autobiography

  • Witness of Fall and Rise - Private Letters 1934-1974 , Knaus, Hamburg 1981, ISBN 3-8135-1831-0

literature

  • Eckart Conze, Norbert Frei, Peter Hayes and Moshe Zimmermann: The Office and the Past. German diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic . Karl Blessing Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 .
  • Hansheinrich Friedländer: Corp table of the Corps Teutonia Giessen 1839-1999 , Giessen 1999, p. 366
  • Andrea Wiegeshoff: "We all have to relearn something": on the internationalization of the Foreign Service of the Federal Republic of Germany (1945/51 - 1969) . Göttingen: Wallstein, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8353-1257-9 , p. 430

Web links

Commons : Rolf Lahr  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FOREIGN OFFICE: Lahr pour Lahr . In: Der Spiegel . August 2, 1961 ( spiegel.de [accessed December 22, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 46, 345; 167
  3. ↑ Eckart Conze; Norbert Frei; Peter Hayes; Mosche Zimmermann: The Office and the Past - German Diplomats in the Third Reich and in the Federal Republic, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-89667-430-2 , 618.
predecessor Office successor
- Permanent representative of Germany to the EEC in Brussels
1960–1961 		Günther Harkort
Hans-Heinrich Herwarth von Bittenfeld German ambassador in Rome
1969–1973 		Hermann Meyer-Lindenberg
personal data
SURNAME Lahr, Rolf Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH November 6, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienwerder
DATE OF DEATH September 14, 1985
Place of death Bonn