Rudolf Young

Rudolf Junge (born February 12, 1909 in Aachen ; † unknown) was a German diplomat .

Life

Rudolf Junge's father was Dr. Josef Junge (* 1882; † 1950), limited partner of a travel agency for cultural trips KG and later state commissioner for refugees. Rudolf Junge studied law and passed the first state examination in law in 1936 . In 1928 he became a member of the Catholic student association KDSt.V. Bavaria Berlin. From 1936 to September 1939 he worked as a journalist and editor.

After May 8, 1945 he was an employee of the German Red Cross , whose leadership was closely interwoven with the SS , so that it was banned by the Allied Control Council.

Rudolf Young maintained good relations with the occupation authorities. These regulated the publication of newspapers through licensing and paper allocation. In May 1946, young was among other things editor-in-chief of the Rhein-Zeitung .

From February 1949 to October 1953 he headed the office of the Christian Democratic Press Service in Bonn . In 1952, on the initiative of Junge, the International Committee for the Defense of Western Civilization was founded. In October 1953 he entered the foreign service . From October 1953 to March 1956 he was press officer at the embassy in Madrid. From March 1956 to February 1960 he was employed in the Federal Foreign Office's Refertat . In June 1959 he was promoted to Legation Counselor, First Class. As of February 1960 was accredited in Montevideo . In 1964 he was sent to the Ivory Coast as ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany. There he followed Claus von Amsberg, who later became the husband of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands. At the end of May 1969, Junge submitted his accreditation letter to the government of the Republic of Senegal , replacing York Alexander Freiherr von Wendland , who became ambassador in Valletta . At the end of his career he became German Consul General in Amsterdam.

Honors

• 1968: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ^ Franz Josef Heyen: Rhineland-Palatinate comes into being. Contributions to the beginnings of Rhineland-Palatinate in Koblenz 1945–1951. H. Boldt, Boppard am Rhein 1984, ISBN 3-7646-1849-3 , p. 284 ( digitized version )
2. ↑ Birgit Aschmann : "Faithful friends ..."? West Germany and Spain, 1945–1963. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-515-07579-8 , p. 104 ( digitized version )
3. ^ The Cabinet Minutes of the Federal Government. Volume 16: 1963. Oldenbourg, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-486-57918-5 , ISBN 978-3-486-57918-5 , p. 264 ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Abidjan / Ivory Coast 1963–1969	Hans-Albrecht Schraepler
York Alexander von Wendland	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Dakar / Senegal 1969–1973	Alexander Török