Wilhelm Grewe

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Wilhelm Georg Grewe (born October 16, 1911 in Hamburg ; † January 11, 2000 in Bonn ) was a professor of international law and a German diplomat . He is the author of the standard work Epochs in the History of International Law (1984). He came up with the idea of ​​the so-called Hallstein Doctrine .

academic career

Born in Hamburg, studied Grewe after high school from 1930 to 1934 jurisprudence in Hamburg , Berlin , Freiburg and Frankfurt . In 1933 he became a member of the NSDAP . After his legal traineeship, he was Ernst Forsthoff's assistant at the University of Hamburg and received his doctorate in 1936 with a doctoral thesis on grace and law . From 1936 to 1937 he worked at the University of Königsberg and from 1937 to 1939 at the German Institute for Foreign Policy Research in Berlin, where he headed the international law department. In 1937 he published the treatise Military readiness and constitutional law . 1939 put Grewe in Berlin his bar exam, and taught as a professor of international law and constitutional law at the conformist German university for politics in Berlin, from 1940 into the new foreign studies department of the Friedrich-Wilhelms University in Berlin has been integrated. The subject of his lectures was the legal basis of foreign policy.

Grewe saw the beginning of the war against the Soviet Union in 1941 as a “great mission in world history”. In the same year habilitated to Grewe with a habilitation that his book later part eras of international law history should be. From 1943 he held a chair for law.

After the Second World War , Grewe was professor for public law and international law at the Georg-August University in Göttingen from 1945 to 1947 and was appointed professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau for these subjects from 1947 .

Political career

Konrad Adenauer , Federal Chancellor since September 1949 , appointed Grewe to his advisory team as an international law expert. This gave Grewe significant influence on the foreign policy of the post-war period (especially since Adenauer also held the office of Foreign Minister from March 15, 1951 onwards). In 1953 Grewe became acting head of the legal department, in 1955 head of the political department of the Foreign Office and co-founder of the German Society for Foreign Policy (DGAP).

From 1951 to 1955 Grewe headed the German delegation and played a key role in the negotiations for the termination of the occupation statute , which led to the signing of the general contract / Germany contract . As a result, relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the USA, Great Britain and France were secured under international law; the aim of the reunification of Germany was expressly set out in Art. 7 of this treaty. Grewe also played a key role in the elaboration and formulation of the Hallstein Doctrine .

From 1958 Grewe became German ambassador , first until 1962 in Washington, DC , then until 1971 permanent representative to the NATO Council in Paris and Brussels, then until 1976 in Tokyo . and from 1974 also for the Mongolian People's Republic.

Grewe was awarded the Great Federal Cross of Merit with a star . In 1957 he received the Grand Decoration of Honor in Gold with the star for services to the Republic of Austria . On the occasion of his 70th birthday, a commemorative publication was published dedicated to Grewe, entitled In the Service of Germany and Law .

Grewe has written numerous books and essays that are not limited to a legal point of view, but also include historical and political aspects. His main work remains the epochs of the history of international law , which first appeared in 1984 (written in 1944, supplemented by a chapter on the post-war period, but without a word about genocide). The standard work was supplemented by Grewe between 1988 and 1995 with an extensive three-volume source edition.

Works

  • German foreign policy in the post-war period. German publishing company, Stuttgart 1960.
  • Game of forces in world politics. Theory and Practice of International Relations (=  Ullstein Book 33018). Berlin 1970, ISBN 3-548-33018-5 .
  • Flashbacks: 1976–1951. Propylaea, Frankfurt a. Main / Berlin / Vienna 1979, ISBN 3-549-07387-9 .
  • Epochs in the history of international law. Nomos, Baden-Baden 1984 (2nd unaltered edition 1988), ISBN 3-7890-1608-X .
  • The Years of Decision - From Occupation to the Sovereignty of the Federal Republic of Germany. In: Manfred Funke (ed.): Decision for the West: From the Occupation Statute to the Sovereignty of the Federal Republic 1949–1955. Bouvier, Bonn 1988, ISBN 3-416-04007-4 , pp. 93-113.
  • Power projections and legal barriers , 1991.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, Second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 200.
  2. ^ Monthly publications for foreign policy, year 1941, p. 749.
  3. ^ Bardo Fassbender: Stories of War and Peace: On writing the History of International Law in the 'Third Reich' and After . In: European Journal of International law , Vol. 13 (2002), No. 2, pp. 479-512 (online at: [1] ; PDF; 212 kB).
  4. ↑ The history of the DGAP
  5. ^ Wilhelm Grewe: Flashbacks. Propylaea, 1979, ISBN 3-549-07387-9 .
  6. ^ List of German ambassadors in: Foreign Office of the FRG
  7. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
  8. ^ Annette Weinke : The national community becomes a republic. In: Die Zeit 40/2009, p. 94.
predecessor Office successor
Gebhardt von Walther Permanent representative to the NATO Council of the Federal Republic of Germany
1962–1971 		Franz Krapf
personal data
SURNAME Grewe, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Grewe, Wilhelm Georg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and professor of international law
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH January 11, 2000
Place of death Bonn