Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas
Appearance
The Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas oversaw the Office of Occupied Areas, which was created by the United States Department of State on April 8, 1946, to coordinate its activities in Germany, Austria, Japan, and Korea. The Office was dissolved Mar 4, 1949, when the Department established a new Office of German and Austrian Affairs, and the Office of Far Eastern Affairs assumed responsibility for Japanese and Korean affairs.
Gen. John H. Hilldring was Assistant Secretary of State for Occupied Areas from 1946 to 1947, followed by Charles E. Saltzman from 1947 to 1949.
Categories:
- United States Assistant Secretaries of State
- Former United States Executive Cabinet positions
- United States military in Germany
- Allied occupation of Austria
- Occupied Japan
- Allied occupation of Korea
- 1946 establishments in the United States
- 1949 disestablishments in the United States
- Decolonization of Korea
- United States government stubs