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Heinz Voigt (11 September 1913 – unknown) was a

German jurist and diplomat who served as Ambassador to Australia,

Morocco, Iraq, and Sweden. Born in the Free

Hanseatic City of Hamburg on 11 September 1913, after school

education Hess studied law from 1930 to 1933 at the University of Hamburg. Voigt gained his doctorate in

law in 1934 and took the state civil service examination in 1937. On

entering the Ministry of

Justice, Voigt was appointed a Gerichtsassessor

in the Landgericht Hamburg. In 1941 he was

appointed as a magistrate of the court. From 1939–45 Voigt undertook Wehrmacht

military service as an anti-aircraft battery commander. After the war, Voigt

was again appointed to the Regional Court in Hamburg as a judge in 1946. In

1951 he joined the German Foreign Office and received his

first posting in 1955 as a Counsellor to the German

Mission to NATO,

rising to serve as Deputy Secretary-General. In November 1959

he returned to the Foreign Office, where he worked in the political department.

In 1963 he was appointed a Deputy Director of the Foreign Office and in 1964

received his first high-level posting as Ambassador to Morocco

in Rabat,

serving until 1970.In July 1970 Voigt was appointed as German Ambassador to Australia,

presenting his credentials to Governor-General Sir Paul

Hasluck on 20 August 1970.Voigt had previously visited

Australia in 1965, on board the first dedicated Lufthansa

flight there, and took an interest in promoting Australian markets to German

industry by encouraging a visit by the Federation of German Industries.Voigt was Ambassador of the Federal

Republic of Germany when the Australian Government recognised the German Democratic Republic in December 1972,

which entailed the exchange of ambassadors, but despite the limited recognition

of East Germany given by his government Voigt expressed that the decision was a

"sovereign decision" for Australia to make. In October 1974 Voigt was

appointed as Ambassador to Iraq

in order to reopen the Embassy that had been closed since 1965 in Baghdad. However

he only served in that office briefly before he was sent to the Embassy in Stockholm

in September 1976 to relieve Ambassador Heinz Dietrich Stoecker who had been taken

hostage on 24 April 1975 during the West German Embassy siege by the Red Army

Faction. He served there until 1978.