Swidbert Schnippenkötter

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Swidbert Schnippenkötter (born August 9, 1915 in Recklinghausen , † December 30, 1972 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German diplomat and most recently permanent representative at the United Nations Office in Geneva .

Life

Snip Koetter was the son of the Catholic Study Council for Physics , Joseph snip Koetter , who later during the time of National Socialism as headmaster at the Krupp-secondary school in Essen and author of the standard textbook physics for higher educational institutions has been suspended from duty.

Schnippenkötter's own Abitur was only recognized after completing the Reich Labor Service , so that he was only then able to start studying law at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . Even before the beginning of the Second World War , he volunteered for military service in the Wehrmacht and served first in the naval artillery and later in the air defense . During the attack on Poland and the campaign in the west , he served as a lieutenant and in 1942 became captain of the battery in the Africa Corps . Shortly before his posting to the general staff training he got at the first Battle of El Alamein , however, in July 1942 in British captivity .

After the end of the Second World War he continued his studies and then entered the foreign service . After a job at the embassy in Mexico , he succeeded Rolf Friedemann Pauls as personal assistant to the State Secretary in the Foreign Office , Walter Hallstein . He initially retained this key position after Hallstein became President of the European Commission in 1958 .

Shortly thereafter, however, he moved to the embassy in the United States , where he became a close associate of the local ambassador Wilhelm Grewe . When Grewes was recalled, he returned to Germany in 1962 and in July 1953 became deputy head of the planning staff in the Foreign Office and dealt with issues of Ostpolitik .

In July 1965, as a lecturer in the first class of the Legation Council , he became the Federal Government Commissioner for questions of disarmament and arms control , whereby the then Federal Minister for Affairs of the Federal Defense Council, Heinrich Krone, only agreed to the appointment on the condition that after the formation of the new government the question of the integration of the Disarmament Commissioner into the ministerial structure will be checked again. During this time he was in particular responsible for the Geneva disarmament negotiations. Most recently, however, he came under criticism from Federal Foreign Minister Willy Brandt , who in February 1969 forbade him and Wilhelm Grewe, who was now ambassador to NATO , "until further notice" to make any statements about the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.

He was last Permanent Representative to the United Nations in Geneva from July 1969 until his death . Federal Foreign Minister Brandt now entrusted the negotiations at the Geneva disarmament talks to Hellmuth Roth , who had been promoted to ministerial director in February 1969 and was entrusted with the management of the Subdivision Disarmament and Arms Control of Political Department II of the Foreign Office.

Publications

  • The legal relationships of the Altenberg Cathedral . 1952
  • Christian peace and world peace. Historical development and present problems. Editors: Alexander Hollerbach and Hans Maier, authors: Manfred Abelein, Ernst-Otto Czempiel, Hans Maier, Wilfried Schumann and Swidbert Schnippenkötter, 1971

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Josef Schnippenkötter (DNB portal)
  2. ↑ Chancellor's Journey: The Diluted Chance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1957, pp. 11-13 ( Online - May 29, 1957 ).
  3. ^ Cabinet minutes of July 14, 1965
  4. ↑ Disarmament Commissioner: Patches and Glues . In: Der Spiegel . No. 31 , 1965, p. 25 ( online - 28 July 1965 ).
  5. ↑ Nuclear weapons: Greetings from Moscow . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1966, pp. 33 ( online - 14 February 1966 ).
  6. ↑ The peaceful nuclear battle. Dispute over production bans and controls. In: The time. No. 8/1967
  7. ^ Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty: Head down . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1968, p. 32-33 ( Online - Mar. 18, 1968 ).
  8. ↑ Loyal - to whom? In: The time. No. 6/1969
  9. ↑ German UN ambassadors in Geneva since 1964 (DGVN homepage)
  10. ^ Professional: Hellmuth Roth . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1969, p. 192 ( online - Sept. 1, 1969 ).
  11. ↑ Werner Weber: State and Church in the Present. Mohr, Tübingen 1978, ISBN 3-16-640732-4 , p. 242 ( digitized version )
  12. ^ Legal and political science publications of the Görres Society
personal data
SURNAME Schnippenkötter, Swidbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Recklinghausen
DATE OF DEATH December 30, 1972
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau