Rolf Friedemann Pauls

Rolf Friedemann Paul ( born August 26, 1915 in Eckartsberga; † 4 May 2002) was a German Wehrmacht officer and diplomat. He was from 1965 to 1968, the first Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israel.

Life

Rolf Friedemann Pauls was born in 1915 in Eckartsberga the son of a Protestant clergyman. After he had made ​​the 1934 High School on Domgymnasium in Naumburg, he was a career officer in the infantry of the Wehrmacht. Due to a serious injury, suffered Pauls as company commander in Russia, he lost his left arm. Pauls in 1942 was allocated to the military attaché in Turkey's capital Ankara, and then completed a general staff training. In December 1944, Paul was awarded the Knight's Cross. According to a later report by General Hans Speidel, Rolf Friedemann Paul was initiated into the plans to assassinate Hitler on July 20, 1944, and only escaped because of the silence of other arrest. After the Second World War, Paul began in 1946 a study of law, graduating with a thesis on the political system of the Bonn Basic Law in 1949. Before Paul began to work as a diplomat in the Foreign Service, he worked at the Federal Chancellery, at the junction of the Allied High Commission and as a personal assistant to Secretary of State Walter Hallstein and as Vice Consul in Luxembourg. Paul was married twice and had two sons.

The importance of an ambassador

The establishment of diplomatic relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Israel in 1965 (so only about 20 years after the Shoah ) rejected by parts of Israeli society and the Appointed Pauls ' on 19 August 1965, accompanied by violent counter-demonstrations. Even Paul was because of his past as an officer of the Armed Forces of Nazi Germany in World War II, where him the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross was awarded, and as assistant military attache of the German Embassy in Turkey also during the time of National Socialism by the Israeli public as for this office deems inappropriate. Paul's three years as the first Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israel but will generally be judged successful.

Paul was also Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States (1968-1973), in the People's Republic of China (1973-1976) and to NATO ( 1976-1980 ). From 1956 to 1960 he worked as a counselor in the United States from 1960 to 1963 and Deputy Head of Mission in Greece. From 1963 to 1965 Paul was Head of the Department for Trade and Development in the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn.

Honors

Publications

  • Bonn Basic Law and political form. Constitutional considerations, taking into account materials and impressions from the negotiations of the Parliamentary Council. Dissertation, University of Hamburg, Law and Political Sciences Faculty, January 17, 1951
  • The Atlantic Alliance: Future tasks, opportunities, threats. Bachem, Cologne 1982, ISBN 3-7616-0662-1
  • Save us the armaments policy? Security at the end eeines uncertain century. Fromm, Osnabrück 1982, ISBN 3-7201-5152-2; 2nd Edition, Edition From Inter, Zurich 1983
  • Germany's location in the world. Observations of ambassador. Seewald, Stuttgart and Herford 1984, ISBN 3-512-00693-0
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