G. Frederick Reinhardt

George Frederick "Fred" Reinhardt, in U.S. parlance G. Frederick Reinhardt ( born October 21, 1911 in Berkeley, California, † February 23, 1971 in Wohlen, Switzerland ) was an American diplomat, most recently with the rank of ambassador.

He attended the University of California in his hometown, where he made his BA in 1933. After another MA degree, he entered the service of the Foreign Ministry. He served in 1945 at the headquarters of the United States Army in Heidelberg, then in Moscow, most recently as Ambassador to South Vietnam, the United Arab Republic, and North Yemen from 1961 to 1968 in Rome. There his career ended abruptly after an altercation with U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. This was Pope Paul VI. want to visit the Vatican, but without giving even the Italian President and the Prime Minister an opportunity to meet. This was and is an affront to the diplomatic protocol and Reinhardt had dissuaded him from it. Reinhardt was called away " from one day to the other ," and worked at Stanford Research Institute in Zurich.

Reinhardt was married to Lillian Larke Tootle since 1949 and had four children with her. He is on the Cimitero Acattolico buried in Rome.

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