Ulrich Lebsanft
Ulrich Lebsanft (born March 3, 1916 in Stuttgart ; † February 9, 2014 ) was a German diplomat .
biography
After school education on humanistic Stuttgart Karls-Gymnasium , he studied in 1935, first at the Evangelical Lutheran Wittenberg College in Springfield / Ohio, then to 1939 at the Universities of Tuebingen and Heidelberg Economics and Law and ran during his military service in World War II in Soviet captivity .
After his release from captivity and his return to the newly founded Federal Republic of Germany, he began his legal preparatory service in 1950 , but entered the diplomatic service of the recently founded Foreign Office in 1951 as a candidate . After completing his preparatory service, he became a member of the Legation Council in 1953 and initially worked at the embassy in Spain and then in Mexico . In 1957 he was appointed consul in Monterrey .
After his return to the Federal Republic in 1959 he became a member of the Foreign Office in Bonn . In 1970 he was appointed ministerial director and head of a sub-department of Department 4, which is responsible for foreign trade policy , development policy and European economic integration .
In June 1973 he succeeded Hans-Georg Sachs as Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the European Communities in Brussels . Through his participation in meetings of the Council of Ministers and other conferences, he had a share in the development and expansion of the European Economic Communities (EC) . In 1979 he was replaced by Gisbert Poensgen as ambassador to the EC .
Between 1977 and 1981 he was also ambassador to Switzerland . In this function, on June 9, 1978, he signed the contract between the Federal Republic of Germany and the Swiss Confederation on the motorway merger in the Basel and Weil am Rhein area .
Lebsanft was married to Brigitte Krüger , Germany's first foreign correspondent after the Second World War, from 1951 to 1974 .
Honors
- 1973: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1980: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Web links
- Ulrich Lebsanft in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.e-yearbook.com/yearbooks/Wittenberg_University_Witt_Yearbook/1935/Page_163.html
- ↑ Additional protocol to the agreement establishing an association between the European Economic Community and Greece following the accession of new member states to the community
- ↑ Treaty between the Swiss Confederation and the Federal Republic of Germany on the motorway merger in the Basel and Weil am Rhein area
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lively, Ulrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 3, 1916 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2014 |