Wilhelm Haas (diplomat, 1931)
Wilhelm Haas (born August 18, 1931 in Berlin ) is a German diplomat.
Life
Haas is the son of the German diplomat Wilhelm Haas (1896–1981). Since the mother, Ursula Corwegh, was Jewish, the father was retired in 1937. He moved with the family to Beijing to avoid persecution and returned to Germany in 1947. After graduating from high school in 1949, Haas studied law in the USA and at the universities of Bonn and Munich . In 1955 he joined the Foreign Service and in 1959 became press officer at the German embassy in Tokyo . After working in the Foreign Office's Eastern Europe Department , in Nairobi , in the NATO General Secretariat and in the Paris Embassy, he was finally appointed head of the Third World Political Department in 1984. In October 1985 he was appointed ambassador to Israel to succeed Niels Hansen . In 1990 he moved to the post of ambassador to Japan . Before retiring in 1996, he became ambassador to the Netherlands in April 1994 .
In 1961 Haas married Sylvia Henle, the daughter of the former diplomat and then major shareholder of the Klöckner Group, Günther Henle . You have four children.
Web links
- Wilhelm Haas , Internationales Biographisches Archiv 38/1994 of September 12, 1994, in the Munzinger Archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haas, Wilhelm |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |