Wolf-Dietrich Schilling

Wolf-Dietrich Schilling (born September 29, 1936 in Gau-Odernheim ) is a former German diplomat, most recently with the rank of ambassador .

Life

Wolf-Dietrich Schilling began studying law after attending school in 1956 and took up a position as a lawyer in 1965 after completing the first and second state examinations . In 1966 he entered the higher-level foreign service and, after completing his career test, was initially assistant to the ministerial office in the Foreign Office between 1967 and 1969 . During this time he closed on 23 January 1967 his promotion to Dr. jur. at the University of Hamburg with a dissertation with the title The three-track nature of the legal consequences in juvenile criminal law and general criminal law . He was seconded to the Federal Chancellery between 1969 and 1974 and was initially an assistant and finally an assistant in the Chancellor's office. On April 11, 1970, Schilling accompanied Defense Minister Helmut Schmidt to Richard Nixon . In September 1971, Schilling accompanied Willy Brandt as a personal advisor for foreign policy on a state visit to Crimea . As a lecturer in the first class of the Legation Council , he was representative of the office manager of Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt, Ministerialdirigent Reinhard Wilke, during his cure in the summer of 1973.

In 1974 Schilling returned to the foreign service and initially worked for the embassy in Libya and then between 1976 and 1979 at the embassy in Bangladesh . In 1979 he took over the post of ambassador to the Yemeni Arab Republic (North Yemen) and held this position until he was replaced by Peter Metzger in 1983. During his tenure as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in South Yemen in 1981, the budget for development cooperation was around two to two and a half million Germans Mark for agricultural advice and training.

After his return to the Federal Republic of Germany, Schilling worked in Department 2 (Political Department) of the Foreign Office, from April to September 1983 as head of Division 231 (Political Issues in the Economic and Social Sector of the United Nations) from 1983 until 1988 as head of unit 200 (European unification and political cooperation (EPC), Council of Europe, non-governmental European organizations, non-military affairs of the WEU) and from 1989 to 1993 as head of subdivision 23 (coordinator for human rights issues).

From 1993 to 1998, Schilling was the successor to Heinz Fiedler as ambassador to Egypt ; he was followed by Peter Dingens . Most recently, on June 5, 1998, he took over the post of Ambassador to Romania from Leopold Bill von Bredow and held this position until he retired in 2001. His successor there was Armin Hiller .

publication

• The three lanes of legal consequences in juvenile criminal law and general criminal law , dissertation Universität Hamburg, Hamburg 1967

Web links

• Short biography in the Federal Archives (accessed on September 21, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nixonlibrary.gov ( Memento from May 30, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 5.1 MB)
2. ↑ Tough rings Bahr-carbon. In: The time . No. 38/1971
3. ^ Case Guillaume: Unfortunately excellent work . In: Der Spiegel . No. 18 , 1974 ( online ).
4. ^ Chancellor Schmidt: Hope in the doer . In: Der Spiegel . No. 20 , 1974 ( online ).
5. ↑ Northern Yemen advises Bonners against delivering weapons to the Saudis . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 1981 ( online ).
6. ↑ Proof on the embassy website ( memento of the original dated May 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 20, 2013 

predecessor	Office	successor
	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Sana'a / Yemen 1979–1983	Peter Metzger
Heinz Fiedler	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Cairo / Egypt 1993–1998	Peter Dingens
Anton Rossbach	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Bucharest / Romania 1998–2001	Armin Hiller