Arthur A. Hartman

Arthur A. Hartman

Arthur Adair Hartman (born March 12, 1926 in New York City , † March 16, 2015 in Washington, DC ) was an American diplomat who was Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs from 1974 to 1977 and from 1977 to 1981 Ambassador to France and most recently from 1981 to 1987 Ambassador to the Soviet Union .

Life

Hartman completed his military service in the US Army Air Corps (USAAC) between 1944 and 1946 after attending Flushing High School in Queens . He then continued a previously begun undergraduate degree at Harvard University and graduated in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). He then completed a law degree at Harvard Law School from 1947 to 1948 .

1948 Hartman joined the Foreign Service (Foreign Service) and was 1948-1952 Economic Affairs at the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA) in Paris , in 1948 by the US Congress under the Foreign Assistance Act to manage the support funds from the Marshall Plan established has been. He then stayed in Paris, where he was first deputy economic commissioner of the US delegation to the European Army Conference until 1954 and then from 1954 to 1956 political and military advisor to the Permanent Mission to NATO . He then worked from 1956 to 1958 as an economic advisor at the diplomatic mission in South Vietnam and, on his return, between 1958 and 1961 as an advisor for international relations in the European Department of the State Department in Washington, DC

After a subsequent employment from 1961 to 1963 in the Department of Economic Affairs of the State Department, Hartman was between 1963 and 1967 head of the economic department at the Embassy in the United Kingdom . He then served as director of an inter-ministerial working group in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs between 1967 and 1969 and then as deputy director for coordination from 1969 to 1972, before becoming deputy head of the permanent representation to the European Communities in Brussels between 1972 and 1974 .

On January 8, 1974, Hartman succeeded Walter John Stoessel as Head of the European Department of the State Department Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs and held this post until June 8, 1977, whereupon George S. Vest succeeded him on June 16, 1977 started. He himself then took over from Kenneth Rush as ambassador to France on July 7, 1977 . He remained in this post until October 14, 1981, before Evan Griffith Galbraith succeeded him on December 2, 1981.

Most recently, Hartman succeeded Thomas J. Watson, Jr. as ambassador to the Soviet Union on October 26, 1981 . On April 12, 1984, he was awarded the title Career Ambassador , the highest rank in the foreign service. He served as ambassador to France until he retired on February 20, 1987, after which Jack Matlock took over from him on April 6, 1987.

Hartman, who was also a member of the Legion of Honor , also served as a member of the board of directors of Harvard University, a member of the advisory board of the Brookings Institution , the think tank Council on Foreign Relations and a board member of the American-French Society.

His marriage to Donna Van Dyke Ford in 1949, which lasted over 65 years until his death, resulted in three sons and two daughters. He died of complications from a surgical operation.

Web links

• Entry on the homepage of the Office of the Historian of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Arthur A. Hartman in the nndb (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MAN IN THE NEWS; FROM OPERA TO BOLSHOI: ARTHUR A HARTMAN . In: The New York Times, August 22, 1981
2. ↑ DEPARTING US ENVOY CRITICIZES USE OF YOUNG MARINE GUARDS IN MOSCOW . In: The New York Times, March 31, 1981

predecessor	Office	successor
Walter John Stoessel	Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs 1974–1977	George S. Vest
Kenneth Rush	United States Ambassador to France 1977–1981	Evan Griffith Galbraith
Thomas J. Watson, Jr.	United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union 1981–1987	Jack Matlock