Wilhelm Grewe
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Wilhelm Georg Grewe (16 October 1911 – 11 January 2000) was a German diplomat and professor of international law. He played a major role in formulating the Hallstein Doctrine. He was an expert in International Law and was the author of Epochen der Völkerrechtsgeschichte (1984), a standard work on the subject. Wilhelm Grewe served under Konrad Adenauer in the post-war years, from 1951 to [[1955], heading the delegation negotiating the end of Allied occupation of West Germany, leading up to the signing of the Convention on Relations between the Three Powers and the Federal Republic (Deutschlandvertrag) in 1954. At the German Foreign Office, he was acting head of the legal department (1953 – 1954), head of the Political Department (1955 – 1958), and from 1954 to1955 he led the German observer delegation at the Four Powers Conferences in Berlin and Geneva. He was also German ambassador to Washington (1958-1962) and Tokyo (1971 – 1976) and he was Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council at Nato headquarters in Paris and Brussels (1962 – 1971). From 1971 to 1976, while based in Toyo, he was also German ambassador to Mongolia.
[edit] Literature
[edit] Books by Wilhelm G. Grewe
Grewe, Wilhelm; Transl. and rev. by Michael Byers: The epochs of international law; de Gruyter; 2000; ISBN 3-11-015339-4
Grewe, Wilhelm: Epochen der Völkerrechtsgeschichte (2nd ed.); Nomos, 1988, ISBN 3-7890-1608-X (German)
Grewe, Wilhelm: Rückblenden; Propyläen, 1979; ISBN 3-549-07387-9 (partial memoirs) (German)
[edit] Literature on Wilhelm G. Grewe
Grewe, Wilhelm: Rückblenden; Propyläen, 1979; ISBN 3-549-07387-9 (partial memoirs) (German)
Bardo Fassbender: Stories of War and Peace: On writing the History of International Law in the 'Third Reich' and After in European Journal of International law, Vol 13 (2002) Number 2 pp 479-512; also online at www.ejil.org
