Hans Graf Huyn

Hans Graf Huyn    (deep politician)
Born	3 July 1930 Warsaw, Poland
Died	22 January 2011 (Age 80) Ritten, Italy
Nationality	German
Religion	catholic
Parents	• Johannes Franz Graf Huyn • Liselotte von Philipp
Children	• John • Marie Christine • Franz Ferdinand • Assunta
Spouse	Rosemary Huyn
Member of	Le Cercle, Stauffenberg Service, The 61
Perpetrator of	Huyn Affair
German deep politician who attended Le Cercle

Count Hans Graf Huyn was a deep politician who attended Le Cercle meetings. He is mentioned in the Langemann Papers which included the minutes of a 1980 meeting of Le Cercle, in which Huyn reported having "consulted with the head of the Saudi security service about the establishment of a short-wave radio transmitting towards the Soviet Union. The Saudis were interested, he said, and had guaranteed finance, on the condition that a situation such as that created in Moscow by Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty must be avoided at all cost."

Background

Hans Graf Huyn was son of the press attaché at the German embassy in Poland Johannes Franz Graf Huyn (1894-1941) and Liselotte von Philipp. He studied law, philosophy, history and languages ​​at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and at universities in France and South America.

Career

In 1955 he became an attaché at the German Foreign Office. In 1956 he participated as a secretary at the EEC negotiations in Brussels. From 1956 to 1957 he ran through diplomatic stations in Tunis and Dublin, and was used until 1959 at the headquarters of the Foreign Ministry. After work at the Embassy in Tokyo from 1959 to 1964 he was from June to August 1961 Permanent Deputy Ambassador in Manila. From 1963 to 1965 he was responsible in the European keynote of the political department of the Foreign Office of European Political Cooperation and the French-German friendship treaty.

Huyn Affair

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In 1965 Huyn was dismissed after it was discovered that he had leaked confidential information. This very significantly damaged the government of German Chancellor, Ludwig Erhard.

Post-Dismissal

Huyn then began work as a journalist. In 1969 he was working for the federal financial administration and changed in 1972 as a clerk for the CSU Regional Group in the CDU / CSU Parliamentary Group in the German Bundestag. He was until 1976 foreign policy advisor to Franz Josef Strauss. In 1976 he was himself a member of the German Parliament and was a deputy for the constituency Rosenheim from 1976 to 1987 and 1988 to 1990. He was a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Inner-German committee and the defense committee and foreign affairs spokesman of the CSU in the German Bundestag.

Publications

Huyn wrote several books which deal mainly with the Ostpolitik and the Soviet Union.

Death

Hans Graf Huyn died after a long illness on January 22, 2011.

 

An event carried out

Event
Huyn Affair

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Le Cercle/1980 (Zurich)	28 June 1980	29 June 1980	Switzerland Zurich	One of their shorter meetings, the minutes of which were in the Langemann Papers.
Le Cercle/1982 (Wildbad Kreuth)	11 June 1982	13 June 1982	Germany Hanns Seidel Foundation	1982 conference organised by Franz Josef Bach. The participants were guests of Franz-Josef Strauss. The first page of the attendee list was published online in 2011
Le Cercle/1983 (Bonn)	30 June 1983	3 July 1983	Germany Bonn
Le Cercle/1984 (Bonn)	5 July 1984	7 July 1984	Germany Bonn	Held in Bonn, West Germany, the list of the 36 visitors was published online in 2011.
Le Cercle/1984 (Capetown)	12 January 1984	15 January 1984	South Africa Stellenbosch Capetown	4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Capetown exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011
Le Cercle/1985 (Washington)	7 January 1985	10 January 1985	US Washington DC	4 day meeting of Le Cercle in Washington exposed after Joel Van der Reijden discovered the attendee list for this conference and published it online in 2011

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