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6. AMBASSADOR IN LONDON.
In February 1970 he was appointed Ambassador to London.
So it is now convenient for us to understand the importance that for the RFA and for France had their relations with Britain then.
The position of the United Kingdom on its integration into the European project promoted especially by Germany and France, was very reticent from the first moment, so when the Treaty of Rome that created the European Economic Community (EEC), London, was signed in 1957 He stayed out.
For 1961, aware of his mistake, the conservative government of Harold Macmillan, requested the entry, but surprisingly and by pure distrust of his former ally, de Gaulle vetoed his income twice: in 1963 and 1967. He always maintained that the United Kingdom It was a Trojan horse for the common European project. Maybe he was right ...
In 1970, the British Conservative Prime Minister, Edward Heath, and the French President, Georges Pompidou, negotiated until British integration into the European Economic Community.
Edward Heath and Georges Pompidou
In 1971 the British Parliament would approve accession by a large majority. And the United Kingdom, together with Ireland and Denmark would finally enter the European Community on January 1, 1973.
So the Bonn Government, with Willy Brandt (SPD) as Federal Chancellor since October 1969, to follow all the negotiations very closely, wanted to place one of its most experienced diplomats in London.
German Embassy in London
The Bonn government appointed von Hase ambassador to the United Kingdom.
So he and his family moved to London on February 1, 1970.
And on February 11, 1970, Karl Günther von Hasse, the new ambassador of the German Federal Republic at the Court of St. James, left the German Embassy in London, in Belgrave Square to present his credentials to Queen Elizabeth in Buckingham palace.
He will be the German Ambassador in London until 1977, with both the government of Chancellor Willy Brandt (SPD) and that of Chancellor Hellmut Schmidt (SPD), thus counting on the confidence of five federal Chancellors of both the CDU and the SPD.
The new ambssador to the Court of St James, leaves the German Embassy for Buckingham Palace in London, to present his credentials to the Queen, 11th February 1970
With Renate at the Embassy
Back of the photo
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Between 1970 and 1977 von Hase participated as a leading actor in the negotiations with His Majesty's Government to bring to fruition the integration of the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community.
In his capacity as ambassador he attended the palatial receptions such as the one that collects the cover image of this work. Diplomats wear the civil and military decorations they have obtained throughout their careers on their chaque.
The Great Cross of the Order of Merit of the German Federal Republic (Bundesverdienstkreuz), established in 1951 as the general decoration of recognition of the German Federal Republic for political, economic, cultural or social merits, is on the neck of von Hase.
In his chest shows the miniatures of those won during the war.
The miniature of the Knight´s Cross, clearly visible
The Federal Republic approved in 1957 the regulation of denazification of military awards that allowed veterans, Bundeswehr military and diplomats to wear the decorations won during World War II in their uniforms or civilian suits.
It was that image of Queen Elizabeth and the German ambassador that gave me the idea of the title of this work.
In 1977, at sixty years of age, von Hase left the German embassy in London.
He had just been appointed to the post of RFA Ambassador to the European Economic Community, in Brussels. It seemed that this was going to be the last "Bundeshase" service to his country, but he could barely exercise his new position.
The Knight and the Queen
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7. A NEW JOB FOR SURPRISE
As when ten years ago, in 1967 he was elected to the job of General Director of the Deutsche Welle, in 1977 he was surprisingly nominated and elected as director of the ZDF as successor to its founding director Karl Holzamer.
Old logo of the ZDF
THE CURRENT LOGO
The Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen or ZDF (The Second German Television), is the German public television, an independent institution managed by the federated states and by the federal government. He began broadcasting in 1963.
He understood the need for the coexistence of public and private TV channels; expanded programming; expanded the international presence of the channel and modernized its image. He reformed the German public broadcasting while maintaining its independence. He always displayed a recognized sense of humor and self-critical spirit.
His years as head of the press and government spokesman had prepared him for a position in which he fit perfectly and, like everything he did, he played well.
He resigned from a second term and retired in 1982, with 65 years.
von Hase posed in front of the ZDF Headquarters
Thus ended the public life of this exceptional German, always at the service of his country.
His wife Renate (single Stumpff) died in July 2011. They were married for more than sixty years, it was a blow that he overcame with his five daughters and the support of his many grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
In December 2019, he turned 102. He lives with one of his daughters and for his age he has acceptable health, he reads the press and watches the newscasts of the ZDF. In an interview for his centenary, he stated that Brexit was very bad news for him, due to his role in the negotiations for the United Kingdom's entry into the EEC in the early 1970s.
Image of 2013. The hand of his cane: The hare of his last name
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9. HIS UNCLE PAUL
Paul von Hase (1885 - 1944) was a career soldier. The Great War ended with the rank of Captain. During the Weimar Republic he joined the Reichswehr, ascending by regulation. By 1938 he was General of Division, in addition to a convinced and very early conspirator against Hitler.
Paul von Hase
Commander of an Infantry Division in the campaigns of Poland and France. In autumn 1940 he was declared unfit for service on the front and was appointed General Commander of Greater Berlin. From his residence in the Kommandantur in no. 1 of Unter den Linden, contacted the retired general Ludwig Beck and other members of the military circles opposing the regime. He was an element fully involved in Operation Valkyrie alongside Hans Oster and Generals Erwin von Witzleben, Franz Halder and Erich Hoepner.
He was the one who, from his key position as commander of the city, who gave the order to close the government district on July 20, 1944.
After the failure of the coup he was arrested the afternoon of the same day.
Paul von Hase before declaring at August 8th, 1944
Judged by the People's Court (Volksgerichtschof) presided by the implacable and sadistic Judge Roland Freisler on August 8, 1944, he was sentenced to death and executed by hanging that same day in Plötzensee prison.
The President of the People´s Court, Roland Freisler during the judgment
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10. HIS FATHER IN LAW.
We said before Renate, von Hase's wife, as a single woman, was Stumpff.
She was the daughter of Colonel General (Generaloberst) of the Luftwaffe Hans-Jürgen Stumpff (1889 - 1968) who during the war commanded an air fleet and in 1944 was in command of the hunting forces that tried unsuccessfully to stop the Allied bombings on the Reich.
His Father in Law, Hans Jürgen Stumpff
In May 1945 Stumpff was in Flensburg, seat of the ephemeral government of Admiral Dönitz.
By order of the latter and on behalf of the Luftwaffe, Stumpff participated in the final act of World War II in Europe: on May 9, 1945 he was one of the three German signatories of the capitulation of Nazi Germany in Karlhorst, Berlin.
Karlhorst now and then
Stumpff sitting to the right of Keitel on Mau, 9th, 1945 in Karlshost
Stumpff signing the document of the surrender of Germany
Prisoner of the British until 1947, died in Frankfurt am Main in 1968
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11. BENDLERBLOCK. THE JULY 20 MEMORIAL.
During World War II, the "perhaps the largest office complex in Berlin: a five-storey gray granite building on the north bank of the Landwehr Canal that occupied the entire confluence of the Bendlerstrasse and Tirpizufer" known as the Bendler Block at South of the Tiergarten, in the so-called diplomatic quarter, among them the headquarters of the Army of the OKW, where General Olbricht worked.
On July 20, after the frustrated coup, they installed their headquarters Von Stauffenberg and other conspirators.
After the failure they were arrested and by order of General Fromm (in a vain attempt to elude his knowledge of the plot) Olbricht, von Quirnheim, von Stauffenberg and his assistant were shot in one of the courtyards of the complex.
Now there is the German Resistance Memorial.
My son Alex visited it last August 2018 and took some photos.
The Monument to the executed, in the courtyard
Conmemorative plate with the names of the executed
Interior room. Portraits of the 216 main conspirators
Detail of the previous photo: Paul von Hase, the conspiring uncle
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Again a very interesting story and post! Thank you very much for posting!
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