Werner Ahrens

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Werner Ahrens (born August 28, 1915 in Hamburg ) is a former German journalist and diplomat who was ambassador to Denmark and Poland , among other things .

Life

After graduating from high school , Ahrens did a job in the Reich Labor Service and then did his military service , before he began studying philology in 1937 . After the beginning of the Second World War , he rejoined the Wehrmacht and last served as a captain in an armored troop intelligence unit . After his release from captivity , he continued his study of philology at the University of Hamburg continued, putting his 1947 promotion to Dr. phil. with a dissertation on the subject of illness and death as a means of poetic characterization in the modern French novel .

He then took up a professional activity as a journalist and in 1948 first became head of the service at the Süda , a news and press agency based in Baden-Baden , before he became editor for foreign policy of the Federal Republic of Germany in the office of the German Press Agency in 1951 (dpa ) in Bonn . In 1954 he moved to the Federal Government's Press and Information Office , where he worked as a senior government councilor.

In 1959 Ahrens joined the Foreign Service and was initially until 1963, as a lecturer in the Legation Council, head of the Department for Foreign Information at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn. Afterwards he was first class permanent representative of the ambassador in Denmark and from 1967 to 1970 permanent representative of the ambassador in Greece .

After his return to the Federal Republic of Germany, he became Ministerial Director of the Foreign Office of the Federal Government's Press and Information Office in 1970 . He then received his accreditation as ambassador to Denmark in July 1973 as the successor to Günther Scholl , where he worked until he was replaced by Harald Hofmann in 1977.

Ahrens was most recently ambassador to Poland between 1977 and 1979 as the successor to Hans Hellmuth Ruete . In this position he was in April 1979 to organize a trip by Herbert Wehner , the then Chairman of SPD - faction in the German Bundestag , and Greta Wehner , Helmuth Becker , Bruno Friedrich , Gerhard Jahn , Hans-Jürgen Junghans , Alfons Pawelczyk and Walter Polkehn involved. Among other things, discussions were held with leading Polish politicians such as Edward Gierek , Edward Babiuch , Wacław Piątkowski and Ryszard Wojna about internal German relations . After his early retirement he was followed by Georg Negwer in 1979 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WEHNER-REISE: Fear of flying . In: Der Spiegel (No. 15/1979)
  2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Ahrens, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg