Heinrich Ludwig Hermann Krekeler

Heinz Ludwig Hermann Krekeler ( born July 20, 1906 in Bottrop, † August 5, 2003 in Bad Salzuflen ) was a German physical chemist, politician ( FDP) and Ambassador.

His father was Charles Krekeler (* 1865 in Hoexter, † 1947 ibid ), chemist and member of the Bayer Group in Leverkusen and last Supervisory Board and Member of IG Colors. His paternal grandfather was Hermann Krekeler (1836-1911), a soap manufacturer and a member of the City Council of Hoexter.

After completion of primary school and the secondary school he studied chemistry at the universities of Freiburg, Munich, Göttingen and Berlin. In 1930, he became the Dr. phil. doctorate, after which he worked as a chemist in Berlin and was from 1934 to 1945 employees of IG Farben, Ludwigshafen - Oppau.

On 4 December 1931 he applied for a U.S. patent ( 1,863,661 ) for the production of fluorine by the so-called fluorine electrolysis process. This request was granted on 21 June 1932.

From 1945 he was a co-owner of the splitter and Schünemann Verlagsgesellschaft mbh in Bremen. As co-founder and member of the FDP, he helped build a district association in Schötmar. Heinz Krekeler led together with the newspaper publisher Max Staercke from Detmold together the existing two district associations and founded on September 6, 1946, the National Group lip of the FDP. After the incorporation of the country lip in the state of North Rhine - Westphalia on January 21, 1947, the two country groups Minden and lip were merged under his chairmanship.

He was honorary commissioner of economic and administrative authorities of the French occupation zone in the Ministry of Economy in Koblenz and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Freiburg im Breisgau and the State Secretariat for Economic Affairs in Tübingen ( U.S. zone of occupation ).

From 1946 to 1947 he was a member of the Parliament of Lippe and 1946 also a member of the Provincial Council Westphalia, April 20, 1947 to June 17, 1950 Member of the first Parliament of North Rhine -Westphalia. Krekeler took over the national list (position 5) of the FDP in the state legislature and was appointed Deputy Chairman of the FDP Association North Rhine-Westphalia and a member of the Liberal World Union.

From 1950 to 1951 he was German Consul General in New York, USA. From 1951 to 1953 affaires of the German representation in the U.S.; from July 1953 to 1958 the first Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in the United States. From 1958 to February 1964 he was a member of the EURATOM Commission of the European Community ( EC) in Brussels, then a lecturer in diplomatic and international relations at the Law and Political Science Faculty of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster and at the Academy of Political Science in Munich.

Heinz Krekeler died on 5 August 2003 in Bad Salzuflen. He donated in honor of the FDP lip a civil price with the Dr. Dr.- hc. -Heinz - Krekeler medal and a cash prize of 300 euros. Under the auspices of the Max Planck Society, he left the Heinz L. Krekeler Foundation to let explore the conditions that ensure the peaceful coexistence of peoples.

Honors

Works

• Heinz Ludwig Krekeler: Germany's representation abroad. Isar -Verlag, 1952.
• Heinz Ludwig Krekeler: The diplomacy. Olzog -Verlag, 1965.
• Heinz Ludwig Krekeler: Foreign policy: An introduction to the fundamentals of international foreign policy. Olzog -Verlag, 1967.