Wilhelm Fabricius (diplomat, 1920)

Wilhelm Christian Fabricius (born August 25, 1920 in Darmstadt , † 1988 ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Fabricius was the son of Wilhelm Fabricius (1882–1964), a civil servant in the Foreign Service, and his wife Martha geb. Jenke; he had two siblings and grew up in Saloniki , Constantinople and Ankara . His interest in the ancient culture and history of the Mediterranean region was aroused by numerous family excursions in his early years. At the age of 14, Fabricius moved into the country school home and humanistic grammar school in Schondorf am Ammersee , where he passed the Abitur. In 1939 he started at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with a degree in law , but was in the first year of the war for the Wehrmacht called and he was able to continue the study, which he completed in August 1952, the state exam after the war. After a year and a half of training in Speyer , Fabricius was accepted into the Foreign Service at the end of 1953 .

In the decades that followed, he worked in the United States , Canada , Europe, and Australia . His activities include the position of head of cabinet of Heinz Krekeler , a member of the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM) in Brussels , as well as ambassador and member of the executive council of UNESCO in Paris . As early as 1964, Fabricius had worked as the ambassador's deputy in Australia, at that time Joachim Friedrich Ritter . Between August 1980 and August 1985 he was accredited as the successor to Horst Blomeyer-Bartenstein as Ambassador to Australia based in Canberra. The consular district also included Nauru , Papua New Guinea , the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu . During a visit to Nauru in 1985, Fabricius discovered his interest in the country's German colonial history . The work Nauru 1888–1900 , which was completed shortly before his death, was only published in 1992 .

Fabricius was married and had several children.

literature

• Rosemarie Fabricius: Wilhelm Christian Fabricius, 1920–1988. In: Wilhelm Fabricius: Nauru 1888–1900. Canberra 1992, ISBN 0-7315-1367-3 , pp. Vi -viii ( online ).