Wiegand Pabsch
Wiegand Christian Pabsch (born May 2, 1932 in Glatz , Lower Silesia Province ) is a former German diplomat .
Teenage years, training
His parents Hermann Pabsch, head of the animal breeding office for the County of Glatz , and Lucie geb. Rübartsch came from farming families that had lived there for centuries. In 1946, the family was in the Soviet zone marketed ; At the age of fourteen, Pabsch went to free West Germany, where he was accepted into the Aloisius College in Bonn .
From 1952 he studied law and economics in Bonn, Spanish in Valladolid and Seville, and political science in Southampton , on a scholarship from the German National Academic Foundation . He was assistant at the Bonn Law Faculty and trainee lawyer at the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bundestag, produced a study for the UNHCR on the integration of displaced persons , was a tour guide for the Hubert Tigges trips and was involved in local politics. After the assessor exam he was judge of the juvenile criminal chamber in Bonn.
Career in the Foreign Office
In 1961 he was appointed to the Foreign Office , was an attaché at the Ankara Embassy , after two years of training at the diplomatic school he passed the final exam in 1963 and was a personal assistant to Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder. The Bonn Law School doctorate him in 1964 with mcl with the thesis "Protection of supranational jurisdiction in criminal law" to Dr. jur. As Legation Councilor of the Washington Embassy (1964–1967), he reported on US politics in Europe, Latin America and the Vietnam War . From 1967, as consul in Calcutta , he looked after German interests in the states of West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and Assam as well as Germans working in the district, including in the then largest German development project, the Rourkela steelworks . Since 1970 he has worked in the Foreign Office in the negotiations for Great Britain to join the EC; he was deputy head of unit for nuclear energy, space and oceanography with responsibility for nuclear non-proliferation, was a member of the EC negotiating delegation on the verification agreement with the IAEA and participated in conferences in Oslo and London on combating marine pollution.
As NATO Director of Disarmament (1974–1977), Pabsch was responsible for staff work at MBFR and SALT as well as CSCE issues and was involved in public relations work, including a lecture tour through Canada. As head of the basic department for foreign trade and armaments exports in the Foreign Office from 1977, he concluded investment protection agreements with three countries and processed sensitive arms exports. As economic envoy of the Embassy in Washington , he was from 1980 including with the transatlantic dispute under Reagan over world economic policy and trade with Eastern Europe ( natural gas pipe project is concerned) and participated in Williamsburg at the World Economic Forum.
In 1984/85 he was responsible for the AA budget for foreign cultural policy ( Goethe Institute , promotion of the German language, cultural exchange, media and social policy). He directed a television language course for China; he led cultural negotiations with China, Greece, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, prepared the German participation in the CSCE -Kulturforum Budapest before and ran with Karl-Günther von Hase , the delegation in this six-week meeting of leading cultural figures from East and West. The next few years saw a new dimension in foreign policy: cooperation in technology, nuclear issues, space, the environment and telecommunications. As head of a newly created department, he was involved in future-oriented topics (including space programs, DARA foundation, digital data traffic), represented the federal government in the governing bodies of relevant organizations and at international conferences, and concluded scientific agreements with Argentina, Bulgaria, France, Austria and Poland -Technological cooperation and environmental issues and held consultations with the Soviet Union, China and Japan, among others. In the case of the Chernobyl reactor accident , he was responsible for all tasks of the AA.
German ambassador
As ambassador to Chile (1989–1993), when he switched from the Pinochet dictatorship to democracy, he resuscitated the relationships in politics, business, science and culture that had been canceled for over 16 years. He established connections between the democratically oriented Bundeswehr and the Chilean army, promoted the education in the notorious Colonia Dignidad , worked for the release of Erich Honecker, who had fled in Chile's Moscow embassy, to prosecute in Germany, and prepared visits for the Chancellor in Chile and the President of Chile in Germany and explained the process of German unity in the media; President Patricio Aylwin was the only head of state in the world to personally attend the celebration of German unity he organized in October 1990 .
As ambassador to Argentina (1993–1997) he witnessed the rise of this emerging market under President Carlos Menem . He promoted the expansion of bilateral economic and scientific relations, carried out intensive public relations work and prepared visits for the Federal Chancellor and President Menem to Germany. He hosted a conference of German ambassadors, bilateral business meetings and high-ranking German visitors from politics and business. In 1998 the Federal Press Office sent him to Latin America on a lecture tour on the European Economic and Monetary Union and the euro.
President of the International Club La Redoute Bonn e. V.
In 1998 Pabsch was elected to the club's board of directors and in 1999 was elected president. After the federal government moved to Berlin, he gave the prestigious diplomatic club a new profile as a discussion and meeting forum for citizens of all areas by expanding the subject beyond international politics to include domestic and social politics, business, science and culture. He won Prime Minister Wolfgang Clement as Honorary President, founded a business group and an international roundtable and organized trips to 13 countries. With first-rate speakers, 65 events a year and a membership that has grown from 350 to 800, the club holds a top position in social life in the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg area. In 2010, after 12 years of activity, Pabsch was given a symposium on the future of Europe and a laudation from retired Federal Minister. D. Kinkel adopted and made an honorary member. He was a member of numerous advisory boards, including the Andheri Hilfe in Bonn.
Honors
Wiegand Pabsch is Doctor hc of the Universidad Católica de Córdoba and holder of the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon and First Class, the Great Gold Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and the medals "Bernardo O'Higgins" of the Republic of Chile and " 25 de Mayo" of the Republic Argentina with star and shoulder ribbon .
Publications
- Contemporary stories from the life of a good-for-nothing (memoir), Bouvier Verlag Bonn 5th edition ISBN 978-3-416-03021-2 .
- The criminal law protection of supranational sovereignty; Verlag Röhrscheid Bonn, 1965, 212 pp.
- The Cultural Forum of the CSCE in Budapest, Europe Archive No. 7/1986, pp. 211-216.
Furthermore, Pabsch published numerous articles on topics of international politics in foreign policy journals and gave lectures in many countries (including the USA, Canada, India, Israel, Chile, Argentina and Venezuela).
Private life
Pabsch is married and has three daughters and one son. In addition to German, he also speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wiegand Pabsch in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ GA BONN: GA series “Bonner Köpfe”: Wiegand Pabsch - a diplomat out of passion. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
- ^ Official visit of the Federal Chancellor to Chile and Brazil from October 19 to 29, 1991. Retrieved on August 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Press and Information Office of the Federal Government: Federal Chancellor Kohl's Latin America trip. In: www.bundesbildstelle.de. Retrieved September 16, 1996 .
- ↑ Honorary Members. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
- ↑ Laudation Dr. Kinkel. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
- ^ Wiegand Pabsch: Contemporary stories from the life of a good-for-nothing. Retrieved August 12, 2020 .
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Günter Knackstedt |
German Ambassador to Santiago de Chile 1990–1993 |
Werner Reichenbaum |
| Herbert Limmer |
German ambassador in Buenos Aires 1993–1997 |
Adolf von Wagner |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pabsch, Wiegand |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pabsch, Wiegand Christian (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 2, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Glatz , County Glatz , Province of Lower Silesia |