Wilhelm Höynck

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Wilhelm Höynck (born December 11, 1933 in Solingen ) is a former German diplomat who, among other things, was Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from 1993 to 1996 and Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission to the Office of the United Nations in Geneva (UNOG) was.

Life

After graduating from high school , Höynck studied law at the University of Cologne , Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and passed the first state examination in 1959 . In 1962 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the topic of equal opportunities for legitimate and illegitimate children in Soviet Russia and in the North American state of Arizona at the University of Cologne. He then completed his legal clerkship with the intention of taking up a position as a notary . However, after passing the second state examination in 1964, he decided to join the foreign service .

After completing his career examination, he worked at the Consulate General in Bordeaux and at the Foreign Office in Bonn . During the Vietnam War he was permanent representative of the ambassador to South Vietnam between 1969 and 1971 , while his wife worked as a diplomat at the embassy in Thailand . In 1971 he moved to the Permanent Mission to NATO in Brussels , where his wife was also employed by the Permanent Mission to the European Communities .

Between 1990 and 1991 he was the head of the German delegation in the negotiations for the German-Polish neighborhood agreement , which was signed on June 17, 1991 by Helmut Kohl , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , Jan Bielecki and Krzysztof Skubiszewski .

On June 15, 1993 he became the first Secretary General of the OSCE, which was still called the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) until it was renamed in 1995 , and retained this post until his replacement by Giancarlo Aragona in 1996. In this role he made particular efforts to build an organizational infrastructure within the CSCE and OSCE.

Most recently, Wilhelm Höynck succeeded Alois Jelonek as Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission at the United Nations Office in Geneva (UNOG). He held this position until his retirement in 1998 and his replacement by Karl Walter Lewalter .

Even after his retirement he has been involved in international politics. In 1999 he was chairman of the German delegation to the 55th  UN Human Rights Commission and from 1999 to 2001 the OSCE commissioner for Central Asia . Since 2009 (as of May 2020) he has been a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations (DGVN).

He was a member of the Catholic student union K.St.V. Bavaria Freiburg.

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  1. ↑ 20 Years of the German-Polish Neighborhood Agreement - Review and Outlook
  2. ↑ Marcus Wenig: Possibilities and Limits of Dispute Settlement of Ethnic Conflicts by the OSCE presented on the Conflict in Former Yugoslavia. Duncker and Humblot, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-428-08704-6 , p. 47 ( digitized version )
  3. ↑ Stefan Troebst: The Macedonian Century. From the beginnings of the national revolutionaries to the Ohrid Agreement 1893–2001. Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, p. 336, ISBN 978-3-486-58050-1 , p. 336 ( digitized version )
  4. ^ List of German UN ambassadors
  5. ↑ 7th Forum compact: "Diplomacy on the test bench - a definition of the position for the 21st century", March 27, 2008, Foreign Office, Berlin (PDF; 68 kB)
  6. ↑ DGVN Presidium ( Memento from September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ 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 Höynck, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH December 11, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Solingen