Yohanan Meroz

Yohanan Meroz (born April 11, 1920 in Berlin as Hans Renatus Marcuse ; † April 25, 2006 in Jerusalem ) was a German-born diplomat of the State of Israel and ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany.

Life

Hans Renatus Marcuse was a son of the physician Max Marcuse . He attended the Friedrichswerder high school in Berlin . After the seizure of power in 1933, Marcuse and his mother, who lived separately from his father, emigrated to Palestine . Since then he has called himself Meroz.

From 1938 to 1940 Yohanan Meroz studied history and Hebrew studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem . After his studies he worked in the British mandate administration. In 1950 Yohanan Meroz joined the Foreign Service of the State of Israel , which was founded on May 14, 1948. Meroz campaigned for the establishment of diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany. They began with an exchange of notes between Federal Chancellor Ludwig Erhard and Prime Minister Levi Eschkol on May 12, 1965.

Meroz was from 1951 to 1954 the 1st secretary at the Israeli legation in Ankara , from 1954 to 1959 the 1st secretary and then counselor in Washington. 1959/1960 Meroz was deputy head of the Israel Mission in Cologne . From 1960 to 1963 he headed the ministerial office of Golda Meir . From 1963 until after the Six Day War in 1968 he was envoy in Paris and then until 1974 deputy state secretary in the Israeli government, responsible for Europe. From 1974 to 1985 he represented his country as ambassador, initially in Bonn until 1981 . Then he was entrusted with "special tasks" from 1981 to 1983 and finally worked in Bern from 1983 to 1985 . In 1988 he gave the laudation in Frankfurt am Main for Siegfried Lenz for the award of the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade , and in 1995 in Detmold for Richard von Weizsäcker for the award of the Buber-Rosenzweig Medal as part of the Week of Fraternity .

Fonts

• On a difficult mission. As Israel's ambassador in Bonn . With a foreword by Helmut Schmidt . Ullstein, Berlin 1986.
• Siegfried Lenz. Eulogy . In: Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels eV (ed.): Peace Prize of the German Book Trade 1988. Siegfried Lenz . Booksellers Association, Frankfurt am Main 1988, pp. 17–31. ISBN 3-7657-1491-7
• Images from a hectic decade. 1986-1996. Verlag der Jüdischen Rundschau Maccabi , Basel 1997.

Web links

• About my Father Max Marcuse.
• DIG : Timeline of German-Israeli relations ( Memento from February 18, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

swell

• Jacques Ungar: diplomat from the very beginning . In: tachles from May 5, 2006, 6th year, issue 18.
• World online.
• Sigusch, V. (2008). History of Sexology. Frankfurt / Main: Campus Verlag GmbH.