Ivone Kirkpatrick

Sir Ivone Augustine Kirkpatrick KCB, KCMG ( born February 3, 1897 in Wellington, British India, † May 25 1964 in Celbridge, Ireland ) was a British diplomat.

Life

After school was Kirkpatrick soldier in the First World War. He changed after the war, the diplomatic service, where he was used among other things to the Embassies in Rome, in the Vatican and in Berlin. From 13 to 15 May 1941, he heard in London Rudolf Hess, who had recently jumped over Scotland with the parachute in order to convey a peace between Britain and Nazi Germany on your own.

From 1945, he held various positions at first in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, before he succeeded by Brian Robertson took over in 1950, the function of the British High Commissioner in the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1953 he returned to the Foreign Ministry, where he worked in the Suez Crisis a hard line against Egypt demanded. He was there secretary of state, as the first ambassador of the sovereign after the entry into force of the Paris agreements Germany, Hans -Heinrich Herwarth of field Please, took his service. In 1957 he retired.