Wilfried Nölle

Wilfried Nölle (born July 6, 1925 in Berlin ) is a German Indologist , ethnologist and diplomat . From 1985 to 1988 he was the German ambassador to Mozambique .

Life

Nölle was born in 1925 as the son of the politician and MP Aloys Nölle . From 1943 to 1945 he served as a soldier. He studied oriental languages , ethnology and comparative religious studies at the universities in Berlin , Marburg , Frankfurt am Main and Tübingen . In 1951 he was at the Philosophical Faculty of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen with the dissertation teaching and cult of the Kaulas. A contribution to the history of Durgā worship to Dr. phil. PhD. He then worked in Tübingen and Chicago (USA). He worked as a features editor and dealt with the acculturation process in pueblos of New Mexico .

In 1960 he entered the higher foreign service . Stays abroad led him initially as a press attaché to New Delhi (India), where he also gave lectures on German-Indian intellectual relations and Indian topics at the Birla College of Arts in Pilani (Rjastan). He was then press attaché from 1965 to 1970 in La Paz (Bolivia) and from 1970 to 1974 in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). From 1974 to 1977 he was an advisor for Latin American affairs at the headquarters in Bonn and a ministerial advisor at the German embassy in Ankara (Turkey). From 1980 to 1985 he was the representative of the German ambassador and envoy in Beijing (PR China). From 1985 to 1988 he worked as the German ambassador in Maputo (Mozambique). At the same time he was accredited for Swaziland .

He was an honorary professor at the universities of La Paz and Ankara and became a member of the Royal Spanish Academy of History in Madrid. He wrote u. a. a biography of Otto Philipp Braun (1969).

Nölle is married and has one child.

Awards

• 1983: Federal Cross of Merit
• 1988: Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Fonts (selection)

• Ethnological lexicon. Manners, customs and cultural property of the indigenous peoples (= Goldmann's yellow paperbacks . Vol. 582). Goldmann, Munich 1959.
• The Indians of North America (= Urban books . 39). Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1959.
• Dictionary of Religions. The doctrines of faith of the peoples (= Goldmann's yellow paperbacks . Vol. 642/643). Goldmann, Munich 1960.
• The great religions (= Hallwag pocket books . Vol. 62). Hallwag, Bern 1960.
• with Volker Moeller, Joachim-Friedrich Sprockhoff (ed.): From Buddha to Gandhi. Essays on the history of the religions of India. [Helmuth von Glasenapp. On his 70th birthday on September 8, 1961 on behalf of his students ]. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1962.
• Ocean of fairy tale streams. Indian fairy tales (= Goldmann's yellow paperbacks . Vol. 1546). Goldmann, Munich 1964.
• Helmuth von Glasenapp . Interpreter of Indian thought (= South Asian Studies ). Max Mueller Bhavan, New Delhi 1964.
• La vida de Otto Felipe Braun, Gran Mariscal de Montenegro, a través de cartas y documentos de la épocha . Centro Cultural Alemán, La Paz 1969.

literature

• Walter Habel (Ed.): Who is who? . The German who's who. 38th edition: 1999/2000, Schmidt-Römhild, Lübeck 2000, ISBN 3-7950-2026-3 , p. 1030.
• Wilhelm Goldmann (Ed.): Lexicon of Goldmann pocket books . tape 1000 . Wilhelm Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1963, p. 231 .

predecessor	Office	successor
Hasso Buchrucker	German Ambassador to Mozambique 1985–1988	Reinhart Kraus