Rudolf Salat

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Rudolf Salat (born March 12, 1906 in Steinbach , Mainburg ; † August 8, 1994 ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Rudolf salad studied in Munich , Paris and Geneva law . From 1930 to 1949 he was an employee and managing director of the international general secretariat of the Pax Romana in Freiburg im Üechtland . From 1939 to 1945 he worked in the United States and South America. In 1950 he headed the liaison office to the Allied High Commission in the Federal Chancellery and from 1950 to 1954 he was cultural advisor and acting head of the cultural department of the Foreign Office . As part of the re-establishment and promotion of the Association for German Cultural Relations Abroad Salat had a major impact on cultural policy.

Rudolf Salat was Counselor at the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Holy See from 1954 to 1957 . From 1957 to 1961 Salat was on leave from the Foreign Office as an international civil servant at UNESCO in Paris. From 1962 to 1967, Salat had the exequatur as Consul General in Milan . He was also ambassador to Santiago de Chile from 1967 to 1970 . In 1970 he was retired .

In April 2016, Federal Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier admitted that the Federal Foreign Office and the embassy staff at the time had “grave negligence for years because of the Colonia Dignidad sect settlement in Chile. "From the sixties to the eighties, German diplomats looked the other way at best - at least they did clearly too little to protect their compatriots in this colony" ".

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Matthias Bode: The foreign cultural administration of the early Federal Republic , p. 261
  2. ↑ edited by Stefan Heid, Michael, Matheus, Places of Refuge and Personal Networks: The Campo Santo Teutonico and the Vatican 1933-1955, p. 366
  3. ↑ Der Spiegel of July 18, 1956: Cultural sovereignty: Salad is no longer there
  4. ^ Paul Weindling, John W. Thompson: Psychiatrist in the Shadow of the Holocaust, p. 189
  5. ^ Cabinet minutes of the ambassadors at the Vatican in the Federal Archives
  6. ^ Sect settlement in Chile - Steinmeier zu Colonia Dignidad: "German diplomats did too little" , Der Tagesspiegel , April 26, 2016, accessed on April 27, 2016
predecessor Office successor
Gottfried von Nostitz-Drzewiecky Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Santiago de Chile
1967–1970 		Horst Osterheld
personal data
SURNAME Salat, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainburg , district Steinbach
DATE OF DEATH August 8, 1994