Axel Hartmann (diplomat)
Axel Hartmann (born July 4, 1948 in Bad Sachsa ) is a German diplomat . From 2009 to 2013 he was the Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Slovakia based in Bratislava (Pressburg).
Education and scientific activity
His high school did Hartmann 1967 on Pädagogium Bad Sachsa . After studying political science and law at the universities of Göttingen and Würzburg, which he achieved in 1972 with the state examination and the doctorate to Dr. iur. (1976), he worked from 1973 to 1978 as a research assistant and lecturer for constitutional and international law at the University of Würzburg .
In 1978 he became a consultant for Germany and security policy at the federal office of the CDU in Bonn and an employee of the later Federal Minister for Defense and NATO Secretary General Manfred Wörner .
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
In 1980 he joined the Foreign Service . This was followed by assignments in the Foreign Office in the Department for Disarmament and Arms Control ( NATO double decision ) and at the Budapest Embassy from 1982 to 1985 as head of the legal and consular department (refugee problems for Germans from the GDR ) and from 1985 to 1987 at the Permanent Mission the Federal Republic of Germany at NATO in Brussels (nuclear disarmament , SDI Space Defense Initiative , nuclear planning group ).
Federal Chancellery
In 1987 Hartmann was transferred to the foreign affairs department of the Federal Chancellery and was a consultant for bilateral relations with the Warsaw Pact states and the CSCE process in the Eastern Europe Department and an employee of the Ministerial Director Horst Teltschik . From 1989 to 1991 he was in the management area of the Federal Chancellery as Deputy Head of the Ministerial Office of the Head of the Federal Chancellery , Federal Minister Rudolf Seiters (collapse of the GDR , shaping German unity ).
Free State of Thuringia
In 1991 Hartmann switched to the service of the Free State of Thuringia and was instrumental in setting up the representation of Thuringia at the federal government in Bonn and later - from 1999 - in Berlin. From 1994 to 2006 he was Head of Office / Head of Department of the Representation of the Free State of Thuringia to the Federal Government and responsible for maintaining contact with the federal organs and coordinating voting behavior in the Federal Council.
During this time he was also the CSCE and OSCE commissioner of the federal states (1992 to 2006), chairman of the German-Polish government commission, committee for interregional cooperation (1994 to 2006) and executive board of the German-Hungarian society (2001 to 2006) .
Return to the Foreign Service
From 2006 to 2009 Hartmann was Consul General of the Federal Republic of Germany for Northern Italy and the Republic of San Marino , based in Milan . Between 2009 and his retirement in July 2013 he was Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Slovak Republic , based in Bratislava (Bratislava).
Mayor of Bad Sachsa
On July 13, 2014, Hartmann was elected mayor of the Lower Saxony city of Bad Sachsa with 72% as a CDU candidate . The term of office is eight years.
Hartmann resigned from his position on March 31, 2018 for health reasons and has moved back to Bratislava .
Consular officer in Budapest
In the 1980s, as head of the consular department of the Embassy of the Federal Republic in Budapest, Hartmann helped around 1000 GDR citizens who sought asylum in the embassy building to flee to the West . He sometimes used unconventional methods. He issued West German passports, negotiated free purchases from those wishing to leave the country and provided refugees with information about the border fortifications between Hungary and Austria . Because of his activities, he came into the sights of the Stasi . In 1985 he left Hungary.
Awards
- June 27, 2013 Medal of Merit of the Slovak Republic
- September 1, 2014 Award of the honorary doctorate Dr. hc of the European University Belgrade / Vienna in the festival hall of the Technical University of Vienna on Karlsplatz
- October 29, 2014 honorary citizen of the city of Kezmarok (Käsmark), Slovak Republic
- November 27, 2014 Officer's Cross of the Republic of Hungary
Web links
- Axel Hartmann - Ambassador in Bratislava "From Refuge in German Embassies to Unity of Germany" PDF file
- Alumni Göttingen - Dr. Axel Hartmann press release: Alumni Day 2015: Contemporary witness reports on the path to German unity
Individual evidence
- ↑ HarzKurier Bad Sachsa's mayor listens. Accessed March 14, 2018
- ↑ FOCUS-TV report Engel von Budapest - secret helper to freedom (October 6, 2008)
- ^ Ambassador Hartmann's farewell reception at Foreign Minister Lajčák. (No longer available online.) German Embassy Pressburg, archived from the original on November 29, 2014 ; accessed on November 21, 2014 .
- ↑ Internet source Hungarian Embassy Berlin
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hartmann, Axel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 4th July 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bad Sachsa |