Rudolf Jestaedt

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Rudolf Jestaedt (born April 27, 1921 in Fulda ; † March 27, 2012 in Bonn-Bad Godesberg ) was a German diplomat who was ambassador to Denmark , among other things .

Life

After the Abitur studied Jestaedt Law at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and laid there on December 17, 1948 his promotion to Dr. jur. with a dissertation on the subject of the Reich Concordat of July 20, 1933 in National Socialist state and administrative practice with special consideration of Article 1 .

Jestaedt later joined the Foreign Service and was employed at various missions abroad and at the headquarters of the Foreign Office . In April 1964 he took over as Counselor First Class next to Kurt Luedde-Neurath , the former Head of Unit for the Eastern bloc in the Foreign Office, Dedo von Schenck , Gisela Rheker and Renate Finke Osiander in talks on the establishment of diplomatic relations with Czechoslovakia in part . On August 31, 1966 he was promoted to lecturing councilor and at the same time appointed deputy head of the department for legation and consular law, reparation, traffic law and civil service law at the Foreign Office.

On August 31, 1972, he was honored with the title of Grand Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique . In 1977, as a lecturer in the first class, he was head of the department for labor and social law, resettlement of Germans and ethnic Germans, and refugee affairs in the Foreign Office.

Jestaedt last received his accreditation as ambassador to Denmark in 1981 as the successor to Harald Hofmann . He worked there until he retired in 1986 and was then replaced by Helmut Redies in this position.

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Individual evidence

  1. Ivan Jakubec: Loopholes in the "Iron Curtain" , 2006, p. 44, ISBN 3-515-08527-0
  2. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius, Matthias Peter, Harald Rosenbach: Files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1966 , 1997, p. 1752 with further references, ISBN 3-486-56155-3
  3. Ilse Dorothee Pautsch, Amit Das Gupta: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1977 , p. 1849 with further references