Andreas Meyer-Landrut

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Andreas Meyer-Landrut in 1989 at Rolandseck station

Andreas Meyer-Landrut (born May 31, 1929 in Tallinn , Estonia ) is a former German diplomat . Most recently he was head of the office of the Federal President .

Life

Meyer-Landrut comes from a German-Baltic industrial family who was resettled from Estonia to occupied Poland at the beginning of the Second World War due to the German-Soviet border and friendship treaty. Towards the end of the war, the family fled westward from there and settled in Bielefeld .

After graduating from the Ratsgymnasium Bielefeld , he studied Slavic Studies , Eastern European History and Sociology in Göttingen and Zagreb . In 1954 he was charged with a dissertation on the Croatian theater of the 19th century Dr. phil. PhD .

In 1955 he joined the Foreign Office ; his posts abroad included Brussels , Tokyo and Brazzaville , where he headed the embassies. Due to his language skills, he soon belonged to the Russia specialists in the diplomatic service . He was posted to the German embassy in Moscow five times , most recently from 1980 to 1983 and from 1987 to 1989 as ambassador . He thus played a key role in the rapprochement between the federal government under Helmut Kohl and the Soviet leadership under Mikhail Gorbachev during perestroika . During this time he was particularly committed to the Russian Germans.

From 1984 to 1986 he was State Secretary of the Foreign Office in Bonn under Hans-Dietrich Genscher . From 1989 to 1994 he was a permanent state secretary and head of the office of the Federal President under Richard von Weizsäcker .

After his civil servant career ended, he headed the Moscow representative office of DaimlerChrysler AG until 2002 . He also took over the chairmanship of the German-Russian Forum .

Family and personal life

Andreas Meyer-Landrut is married for the second time. From his first marriage to Hanna Karatsony von Hodos, he has a son and a daughter. He is the uncle of the diplomat Nikolaus Meyer-Landrut and the grandfather of the singer Lena Meyer-Landrut .

Meyer-Landrut lives in Moscow and Berlin.

Meyer-Landrut's great passion is riding. He attended courses including in Warendorf and Wülfrath and was awarded the Silver Reitabzeichen and judges up to Class M . Meyer-Landrut is also involved in the German Equestrian Association . There he was chairman of the personal members division from 1985 to 2001. Since 2001 he has been honorary chairman of the personal members .

Awards

Publications

  • With God and long johns. Experiences of a Diplomat during the Cold War . Q Edition, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-86124-573-6 (Russian edition: "! С Богом И оденься потеплее" - в России миссия дипломатическая Моя отношения Международные, Москва 2005. ISBN 5-7133-1248-8 ).

Web links

Commons : Andreas Meyer-Landrut  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The International Who's Who 2004 . Europe Publications Ltd., London 2003, p. 1131, ISBN 1-85743-217-7 .
  2. ↑ PM Board ( Memento of the original from July 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on pferd-aktuell.de, the homepage of the German Equestrian Association  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pferd-aktuell.de
  3. ^ Estonian State Decorations. Bearers of decorations - Order bearers of the Marienland Cross - Andreas Meyer-Landrut. Retrieved May 21, 2010 .
personal data
SURNAME Meyer-Landrut, Andreas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn , Estonia