Karl Heinrich Knappstein

Karl Heinrich Knapp Stone ( born April 15, 1906 in Bochum, † May 6, 1989 in Bad Homburg ) was a German journalist and diplomat.

Nearly Stone studied law, economics and sociology at the universities of Cologne, Bonn, Berlin, Geneva and Cincinnati (Ohio ). From 1937 to 1943 he was editor of the Frankfurter Societätsdruckerei, from 1945 to 1948, he served as Assistant Secretary in the Hesse Ministry for Political Liberation, 1948-1950, he was chief press officer of the Board of the United Economic Area. From 1950 to 1951 he worked in New York at the German Consulate General and was appointed in 1951 to the General in Chicago. In 1956 he became ambassador to Madrid ( Spain) from 1958 to 1960 he was Deputy Secretary of State in the Foreign Office from 1960 to 1962 he was an observer of the Federal Republic to the United Nations. Since 1962 he was the German ambassador in Washington, D. C. (USA), whose office he held until 1969.