RARE ! "1er ambassadeur allemand en ventes exceptionnelles Israël" Rolf Pauls signé à la main TLS daté 1963

Up for auction the "1st German Ambassador To Israel" Rolf  Pauls Signed TLS Dated 1963. 

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Rolf

Friedemann Pauls (26

August 1915 – 4 May 2002) was a German diplomat. He was the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Israel, from 1965 to 1968,

and was German

Ambassador to the United States from 1968 to 1973. Rolf

Friedemann Pauls was born in 1915 in Eckartsberga the son of a Protestant clergyman.

He graduated from the Naumburg

Domgymnasium in 1934. He was a career officer in the infantry

of the Wehrmacht. Due to a serious injury, suffered as a company

commander in Russia, he lost his left arm. Before he received a General Staff

Officer Course, in 1942, he was the military attaché in Ankara, Turkey. In 1944, he was on the staff of

the 363rd

Volksgrenadier Division. In December 1944, Paul was awarded

the Knight's Cross.

According to a later report of General Hans Speidel, Rolf Friedemann Pauls was in the plans to assassinate Hitler on 20 July 1944, and was only on the basis

of silence by others that he escaped arrest. After

the end of World War II in 1946,

he studied law, graduating with a doctorate on the political system of the Bonn

Basic Law in 1949. Before Pauls began to act as a diplomat in the Foreign Service,

he worked at the Federal Chancellery, at the junction of the Allied High Commission as

a personal assistant to Walter Hallstein, State Secretary and Vice Consul in

Luxembourg. He was married twice and had two sons. In establishing diplomatic

relations between the Federal Republic of Germany and the State of Israel (only

about 20 years after the Shoah) of parts of Israeli society, and

his inauguration on 19 August 1965, was accompanied by violent

counter-demonstrations. In addition to that of Pauls because of his past as an

officer of the armed forces of Nazi Germany in World War II, where he was

awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, and as deputy military attaché at the German

Embassy in Turkey, also during the period of National Socialism of the Israeli

public appeared inappropriate for this office. But his three-year tenure as the

first Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israel was generally

judged as successful. Pauls was also Ambassador of the Federal Republic of

Germany to the United States from 1968 to 1973, the People's Republic of

China from 1973 to 1976, and to NATO from 1976 to 1980. From 1956 to 1960 he

served as Counsellor in the United States, and from 1960 to 1963 he was Deputy

Head of Mission in Greece. From 1963 to 1965, he was a department manager at

the headquarters in Bonn.