Hans Graf Huyn
 Hans Graf Huyn     (deep politician) | |
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| 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."[1]
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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 |
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| Huyn Affair |
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| 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 |
