Rudolf Thierfelder

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Rudolf Thierfelder (born December 31, 1905 in Schöneberg near Berlin ; † July 21, 1997 in Bonn-Oberkassel ) was a German diplomat who was ambassador to Turkey between 1968 and 1971 .

Life

Degree, lawyer and World War II

Thierfelder was the son of the biochemist Hans Thierfelder , who taught as a professor at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin and at the Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen , and after attending school in Tübingen began studying mathematics and law at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich , which he continued at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen. There he became a member of the Tübingen fraternity Derendingia in 1923 , in which his father and brother Hermann Thierfelder were already members. In 1930, he put his second state exam and graduated in 1932 his doctorate Dr. jur. at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen with a dissertation entitled Objectively captured guilt characteristics . He then worked as a research assistant at the Philipps University in Marburg and the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel , and subsequently, in succession, as a court assessor in Württemberg , regional judge at the Ellwangen regional court and, most recently, first public prosecutor at the Stuttgart public prosecutor's office.

During the Second World War , Thierfelder, who was a member of the NSDAP and the SA , did military service in the Wehrmacht and was an employee of the Justice Group of the military commander- in-chief in Paris, headed by Judge General Hans Boetticher , and was involved in the formulation of the so-called hostage guidelines.

Diplomat in the Federal Republic of Germany

After the end of the war, Thierfelder became an employee in the State Chancellery of Württemberg-Hohenzollern and then worked for a short time in the German Office for Peace Issues in Stuttgart. On July 1, 1950, he joined the Foreign Affairs Office in the Federal Chancellery , from which the Foreign Office emerged on March 15, 1951 . From 1951 to 1956 he was employed in Department II (Political Department) and was initially head of the International Organizations section and, from the beginning of 1952, head of Section IV (Council of Europe). In this function he belonged to Konrad Adenauer , Theodor Blank , Herbert Blankenhorn , Walter Hallstein , Wilhelm Grewe , Rolf Otto Lahr and Carl Friedrich Ophüls as a member of the German delegation at the London Nine Powers Conference of 1954 on the integration of the Federal Republic of Germany into the West . In addition, as the successor to Gustav Strohm, who was suspended because his colleague had passed on documents, from March 1952 to 1956 he was head of Department 217, which was responsible for general political and border issues and thus also for Saar issues.

In 1956 Thierfelder became consul general in Geneva . His successor as head of the Saar department was Heinrich Böx . He held the post of Consul General in Geneva until 1961. His originally planned posting of Thierfelder to succeed Josef Jansen as first class envoy to the embassy in France was withdrawn in 1960 by the Foreign Office due to French pressure because of his activities in the Second World War. Following his work as Consul General in Geneva, he was instead envoy to the Embassy in the United Kingdom between 1961 and 1964 . The renting of the apartment he lived in in the London borough of Kensington met with criticism in the media because of the high rent. After his return to Germany in 1964, he became Head of Department V (Legal Department) of the Foreign Office as Ministerial Director and held this position until 1968. In this function he was from March 26 to May 24, 1968 head of the German delegation at the negotiations for the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties .

Thierfelder last succeeded Horst Groepper as ambassador to Turkey in August 1968 . He held this post until his retirement in January 1971 and was then replaced by Gustav Adolf Sonnenhol .

Publications

  • Objectively conceived guilt characteristics , dissertation University of Tübingen, Breslau-Neukirch 1932.
  • Normative and value in criminal law science of our day , Morh Verlag , Tübingen 1934.
  • Anselm von Feuerbach and the Bavarian Criminal Procedure Act of 1813 , ZStW 53 (1934), pp. 403–442
  • Erich Schwinge : Military Criminal Code , Review, DR 1937, p. 39 f.

literature

  • 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. 438.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birth register StA Schöneberg I, No. 20/1906
  2. ↑ Death register StA Bonn III, No. 223/1997
  3. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen.  October 1933, master roll no. 633. 
  4. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen.  October 1933, master roll no. 20th 
  5. ↑ Membership directory of the Derendingia fraternity in Tübingen.  October 1933, master roll no. 544. 
  6. ↑ 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 , p. 684.
  7. ↑ Together with other employees of the military commander, Thierfelder had exonerated the former military administrative officer and commander of the security police Hans Luther in the early 1950s when he had to answer to the French judiciary for the German practice of shooting hostages. See: 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 , p. 684.
  8. ^ Ulrich Herbert (editor): Annihilation Policy 1939–1945. New research and controversies , Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  9. ^ Bernhard Brunner: The France Complex: The National Socialist Crimes in France and the Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany , Verlag Wallstein Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-8924-4693-8 , pp. 125, 379.
  10. ↑ Ahlrich Meyer: perpetrators in interrogation. The “Final Solution of the Jewish Question” in France 1940–1944 , Darmstadt 2005, p. 446.
  11. ^ Government declaration on the foreign policy situation. 49th cabinet meeting on October 5, 1954 (Federal Archives)
  12. ↑ Herbert Elzer: Konrad Adenauer, Jakob Kaiser and the "small reunification": the federal ministries in the foreign policy struggle for the Saar 1949 to 1955 , Verlag Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2008, ISBN 3-8611-0445-8 , pp. 72, 984 u. a.
  13. ↑ After Herbert Elzer: Konrad Adenauer, Jakob Kaiser and the "small reunification": the federal ministries in the foreign policy struggle for the Saar 1949 to 1955 , Verlag Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2008, ISBN 3-8611-0445-8 , p. 72; Thierfelder was married to the daughter of the chairman of the Saarland Gymnastics Federation, Karl Burk , and was therefore not indifferent to the Saar question at that time.
  14. ^ Announcement on the prospect of filling foreign missions. 115th cabinet meeting on January 25, 1956 (Federal Archives)
  15. ↑ 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 , pp. 684, 804.
  16. ^ Rudolf Thierfelder . In: Der Spiegel from August 9, 1961
  17. ^ Occupation of German missions abroad. 128th cabinet meeting on June 24, 1964 (Federal Archives)
  18. ^ Stefan Karner (editor): Prager Frühling: Articles , Böhlau Verlag Köln Weimar, 2008, ISBN 3-4122-0207-X , p. 552.
  19. ^ Occupation of German missions abroad. 130th cabinet meeting on July 3, 1968 (Federal Archives)
  20. ^ Gustav Radbruch, Gerhard Haney: Feuerbach , Verlag CF Müller GmbH, 1997, ISBN 3-8114-6996-7 , p. 121.
  21. ^ Kristina Brümmer-Pauly: Desertion in the Law of National Socialism , Verlag BWV Verlag, 2006, ISBN 3-8305-1208-2 , p. 95.
personal data
SURNAME Thierfelder, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH December 31, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin-Schöneberg
DATE OF DEATH July 21, 1997
Place of death Oberkassel (Bonn)