York Alexander von Wendland

York Alexander von Wendland (born October 1, 1907 in Höhenried Castle ; † July 17, 1991 in Münsing ) was a German ambassador .

Life

His father was the royal Bavarian Rittmeister Alexander von Wendland. The von Wendlands originally come from Mecklenburg , which was documented in 1853 by the government of Maximilian II with the elevation to the nobility of Wendland .

Von Wendland studied law , joined the NSDAP on May 1, 1933 (No. 2948710), passed the first state examination in law, joined the foreign service in April 1936 and passed the diplomatic-consular examination in 1938. His foreign posts were the consulate in Brno and the consulate general in Batavia . In 1940 he was transferred as legation secretary to the embassy of the German Reich in Bangkok , where he was interned during the Second World War and returned to Germany in 1946. In 1951 he was accepted into the foreign service of the Federal Republic of Germany . He was transferred to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brussels as consul . In 1955 he was transferred to the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Pakistan in Karachi as first class councilor . He acted there as permanent representative of the ambassador.

On January 31, 1964, Charles de Gaulle proposed the neutrality of Southeast Asia at a press conference . On December 16, 1963 von Wendland reported to the Foreign Office in Bonn about a conversation with the new President of South Vietnam, General Dương Văn Minh , who thanked the government of Ludwig Erhard for a loan . Van Minh claimed that neutrality with regard to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam cannot be implemented. Van Minh asked the Erhardt government to influence de Gaulle to abandon this "out of the question" proposal. Von Wendland commented on the request for action on de Gaulle that the government of Lyndon B. Johnson should be consulted before action on de Gaulle and that a neutrality of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam could be the only way to grant this state “temporarily without international war save". On April 14, 1964, SEATO rejected De Gaulle's proposal for neutrality .

literature

• Johannes Hürter (Red.): Biographical Handbook of the German Foreign Service 1871 - 1945. 5. T - Z, supplements. Published by the Foreign Office, Historical Service. Volume 5: Bernd Isphording, Gerhard Keiper, Martin Kröger: Schöningh, Paderborn et al. 2014, ISBN 978-3-506-71844-0 , pp. 233-235

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of the nobility in Bavaria (ed.): Genealogical manual of the nobility matriculated in Bavaria , Volume 22, 1998, page 407
2. ^ D'Ailleurs, de Gaulle plaid en faveur de la neutralization du Sud-Est asiatique, oú l'afrontenment entre le Viet Nan du Nord (soutenu par les Vietcon) et le Sud-Vietnam (militairment appuyée par les Estats-Unis) mène irrémédiablement à la guerre. January 31, 1964 - Conference de presse du général de Gaulle. ( Memento from March 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Rainer Achim Blasius, Mechthild Lindemann: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1963. January 1 to May 31, 1963. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1994, ISBN 3-486-55964-8 , pp. CLXXVIII – CLXXIX ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Erich Boltze	Envoy / Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Saigon 1958–1963 (from 1960 ambassador)	Günther Schlegelberger
Walter Reichhold	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Dakar 1964–1969	Rudolf Young
Karl Gustav Wollenweber	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Valletta 1969–1972	Joachim Steinbach

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tobias C. Bringmann : Handbuch der Diplomatie 1815–1963. Foreign heads of mission in Germany and German heads of mission abroad from Metternich to Adenauer. Saur, Munich 2001, ISBN 3-598-11431-1 , p. 145 ( excerpt )