Walter Jesser

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Walter Jesser (born June 15, 1919 in Stuttgart) is a former German ambassador .

Life

Walter Jesser studied 1947-1950 jurisprudence and earned his doctorate with the thesis The idea of proportionality in self-defense right . He then worked at the Stuttgart Regional Court . He joined the Foreign Service in 1953. In 1955, his area of ​​responsibility in the Foreign Office included processing an application from the widow of the former diplomat Rudolf von Scheliha for a benefit in an extraordinarily precarious financial situation from Ms. Marie Luise von Scheliha (1904-2003). Despite the cancellation of the death sentence against Scheliha in March 1955, Jesser repeatedly stood in the way of a settlement in favor of the widow.

Walter Jesser was in the foreign service for over 30 years, including in Alexandria , Baghdad and Cairo - in Egypt he was Germany's ambassador from October 1969 to August 1972. During his tenure in Alexandria, Walter Jesser edited a dictionary of the written Arabic language. After the assassination attempt on the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal (1919–1971) in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo on November 28, 1971 , he worked to clarify the background as a lecturer in the first class of Legation and head of the German staff the Italian Embassy in Cairo with.

After Jesser had returned to Bonn from Cairo , he headed subdivision 31 of the Political Department of the Foreign Ministry in 1972 , to which the regional areas Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia belonged. On July 22, 1976, Jesser wrote a diplomatic note to Nguyễn Duy Trinh , Foreign Minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam . From 1978 to 1984 he was Ambassador to Morocco in Rabat . During this time he set the course for an improved policy of Germany towards the Arab countries.

Walter Jesser was retired in 1984.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Jesser, Walter, p. 206 f .
  2. ^ Conze / Frei / Hayes / Zimmermann, The Office and the Past, Karl Blessing Verlag, 2010 p. 562ff.
  3. ↑ Hans Wehr, A DICTIONARY OF MODERN WRITTEN ARABIC , J MILTON COWAN
  4. ↑ On November 28, around 3:40 p.m., the Jordanian Prime Minister Wasfi al-Tal was shot dead by Palestinians in the lobby of the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo. A few days ago, the attackers entered Egypt with Syrian passports . You are said to belong to a radical splinter group ' Black September '. The perpetrators were caught on the run. […] The attack can be explained by the hatred the Palestinians felt towards Wasfi al-Tall, whom they described as the 'butcher of Amman'. Under his leadership, most of the repressive measures against the fedayeen in Jordan had been carried out. He was therefore attacked not only by the Palestinians, but also by other Arab countries, including Egypt November 29, 1971 Envoy Jesser, Cairo: Wire Report No. 893; Referat I B4, Vol. 472 Ilse Dorothee Pautsch, Mechthild Lindemann, Daniela Taschler Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1972, Volume 2, p. 1311
  5. ↑ Ilse Dorothee Pautsch, Matthias Peter, Michael Ploetz, Tim Geiger, files on the foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany: 1976 , p. 239
  6. ^ Die Zeit, 1979, Issue 36
  7. ↑ Die Zeit , 1985, Fuel in the Fire (p. 2)
predecessor Office successor
Lothar Lahn Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cairo
1969–1972 		Hans-Georg Steltzer
Hans Schwarzmann Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rabat
1978–1984 		Murad Wilfried Hofmann
personal data
SURNAME Jesser, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart