William Warnock

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from left: William Warnock with Walther Hess at the conclusion of the trade agreement of April 6, 1961

William Warnock (born September 22, 1911 , † 1986 ) was an Irish ambassador .

Life

William Warnock attended Trinity College in Dublin . He married Dorothy Murray and they had two daughters and two sons. In 1935 he joined the foreign service. From 1938 to February 1944 he was first class secretary of the embassy in Berlin, where he was chargé d' affaires from August 1939 . The Irish Constitution of 1937 had features of a Dominion and a Republic, the British King had foreign policy duties, including the appointment of envoys. In the case of the German Reich, Georg VI. (United Kingdom) had no envoy and so William Warnock remained chargé d'affaires.

Paul Léopoldovitch Léon (* 1893; † April 4, 1942) was arrested by the Gestapo while attempting to store documents from James Joyce's apartment in Paris . On November 5, 1940, the Éamon de Valera government ordered William Warnock that if Léon was in danger, he should intervene on his behalf at the German Foreign Ministry. William Warnock replied on November 8, 1940 that there would be a risk, if he intervened, that this could be viewed as interference in the internal affairs of the German Reich, since no Irish citizens were affected, and this could affect good relations. The government in Dublin agreed that nothing would be done and Léon was shot dead by the authorities of the German Empire in 1942.

Warnock was employed in Dublin from February 1944 to 1947. From 1947 to 1950 he was charge d'affaires in Stockholm . From February 3, 1950 to October 22, 1954 he was ambassador extraordinary and ministerial plénipotentiaire in Bern and at the same time accredited in Vienna . From 1954 to October 1956 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Ministry. From October 1956 to May 4, 1962 he headed the Irish Mission in Bonn , where he was appointed ambassador in 1959. From May 4, 1962 to 1963, he was ambassador to Bern and at the same time accredited to Vienna . From 1964 to 1967 he was Ambassador at 55, Sundar Nagar, New Delhi . From 1967 to March 17, 1970 he was ambassador to Ottawa .

On February 27, 1970, he was appointed Ambassador to Washington, DC , where he was accredited from March 17, 1970 to August 24, 1973.

From October 5, 1973 to September 23, 1976 he was ambassador in Bern . In 1974 the governments of Liam Cosgrave and Jitzchak Rabin established diplomatic relations and William Warnock was also accredited as ambassador to Jerusalem in 1975, based in Bern .

predecessor Office successor
Charles Bewley Irish charge d'affaires in Berlin
1939–1944 		Cornelius Christopher Cremin .
Frank T. Cremins Irish envoy extraordinary and Ministre plénipotentiaire in Bern
1950–1954 		Hugh James McCann.
Thomas J. Kiernan Head of the Irish Mission in Bonn
1956–1962 		Brian Gallagher.
Timothy Joseph Horan Irish ambassador in Bern
1962–1964 		Séan Morrissey.
Irish Ambassador to New Delhi
1964–1967 		Valentin Iremonger .
John Aloysius Belton Irish Ambassador to Ottawa
1964–1967 		Joseph Shields
William P. Fay Irish Ambassador to Washington, DC
1970–1973 		Seán Ó hÉideáin .
Frank Biggar Irish ambassador in Bern
1973–1976 		Brendan T. Nolan.
Irish ambassador to Tel Aviv
1975–1976 		Brendan T. Nolan

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This often led to the promotion by Dublin of young, relatively inexperienced diplomats to discharge the responsibilities of senior diplomats. This was the case in Germany where a young First Secretary, William Warnock was promoted Chargé d'affaires when the King refused to sign the proposed Irish Minister's diplomatic credentials . Irish Neutrality between Vichy France and de Gaulle 1940-450
  2. ^ Eds. David S. Wyman, Charles H. Rosenzweig: The World Reacts to the Holocaust , p. 654
  3. ↑ The Sumter Daily Item, July 9, 1970, [1]
  4. ↑ Life (magazine) , March 27, 1970, p. 4
  5. ↑ Warnock, William in the database Dodis the Diplomatic Documents of Switzerland
  6. ↑ Ireland / Embassy in Bern in the Dodis database of the diplomatic documents of Switzerland
  7. ↑ Bern ( Memento of November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Warnock, William
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1911
DATE OF DEATH 1986