Sigismund von Braun
Sigismund Freiherr von Braun ( born April 14, 1911 in Berlin Zehlendorf b, . † July 13, 1998 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat and Secretary of State in the Foreign Office ( 1970-1972 ).
Life
Sigismund Freiherr von Braun was the eldest son of the East Prussian landowner and later imperial diet Minister Magnus Freiherr von Braun and brother the rocket scientist Wernher Freiherr von Braun and father of politician Carola von Braun and the cultural theorist Christina von Braun.
He attended school in Gumbinnen in East Prussia and later the French Gymnasium in Berlin, where in 1929 the Abitur. After banking, he studied law, was in 1934 with the help of a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service for a year to Cincinnati (USA ), and then made a trip around the world (Japan, China, Malaya, India, etc.). In 1936, he appeared as an attache in the Foreign Service. Since April 1937, he was personal assistant to the German ambassador in Paris John of Welczeck, but was displaced in September due to a dispute with Baldur von Schirach to Addis Ababa. On 1 October 1939 he joined the Nazi party. In 1940 he married Hildegard Beck Margis (1915 - 2001), from his marriage five children were born. In 1943 he resigned as Secretary of Legation at the service of the Embassy to the Holy See in Rome, where he remained until 1946.
About his denazification is not known. After internment in Germany, he worked for a time in the private sector, then as an assistant at several Nuremberg trials, so the Wilhelmstrasse trial of Ernst von Weizsäcker, and finally as an employee of the State of Rhineland -Palatinate. In 1954, he joined the Diplomatic Service of the Federal Republic of Germany and was among other things, Chief of Protocol of the Foreign Office. In the different positions of the urbane, quick-witted and charming master of the balancing act showed his negotiating skills: From 1962 to 1968 as Permanent Representative to the United Nations in New York from 1968 to 1970 and from 1972 to 1976 as German ambassador to France and from 1970 to 1972 as Secretary of State in the Foreign Office under German Foreign Minister Walter Scheel. Since 1956 he was a member of the FDP.
Awards
Publications
- France and Germany in view of the European elections; Paper presented at the invitation of East Prussia sheet and the Heads of State and Economic Policy Gesellschaft eV Hamburg on May 16, 1979 in Hamburg / Sigismund Freiherr von Braun. - Hamburg: State and Economy Political Society, 1979 - 16 pages - ( Small swg series; H. 17).
- Sigismund von Braun: Volatile guests. In world tour 1933-1935. Haag Herchenhain, Frankfurt am Main 1993, ISBN 978-3-89228-980-7