Berndt from Staden

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Berndt von Staden (left) 1973 in the USA

Berndt von Staden (born June 24, 1919 in Rostock ; † October 17, 2014 in Ludwigsburg ) was a German diplomat .

Life

Berndt von Staden, son of Richard von Staden and Camilla von Voigt's later divorced marriage, grew up as a Baltic German in Estonia . In the course of the Hitler-Stalin pact in 1939, the family had to relocate . Berndt von Staden wrote two works about this phase of life, memories from the past. A Youth in the Baltic States (1999) and the end and the beginning. Memoirs 1939–1963 (2001). During the war he was a soldier and was part of the defense of Admiral Canaris and was eventually taken prisoner in Schleswig-Holstein.

After studying law in Bonn and Hamburg , he joined the Foreign Office in 1951 and attended the diplomatic school in Speyer. In the Foreign Office he worked in the Russia department. In 1958 he moved to the European Economic Community in Brussels. He initially worked for the EC Commissioner Jean-François Deniau with a focus on the EFTA negotiations, the so-called Maudling negotiations for a European Free Trade Association . From 1961 to 1963 he was head of cabinet at the Brussels Commission President Walter Hallstein , the first chairman of the Commission of the European Economic Community . From 1963 to 1968 he was first class counselor in Washington. 1970 to 1973 he was director of the political department at the Foreign Office in Bonn and as such a member of the Davignon Committee from 1970 to 1973.

Berndt von Staden was German Ambassador to the United States in Washington, DC from 1973 to 1979 , then as Ministerial Director, Head of Department for Foreign Relations and Security in the Federal Chancellery . From 1981 to 1983 he was State Secretary of the Foreign Office and from 1982 to 1986 coordinator of German-American cooperation.

In his memory book Between Ice Age and Thaw , Staden describes the turn from confrontation to relaxation, the beginning of which he observed as the ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Kennedy and Johnson in Washington, DC . Among the governments of Willy Brandt and Helmut Schmidt Staden was in the Federal Chancellery this as a department manager for foreign relations and security policy of detente shape itself.

As a pensioner , Berndt von Staden advised his homeland, Estonia, which had regained its independence in 1991, on setting up its foreign ministry.

Berndt von Staden was married to Wendelgard Freiin von Neurath (* 1925) since 1961. They have two children from their marriage.

Honors

Works

  • Memories from the past: A youth in the Baltic States 1919–1939. Siedler, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3886806707
  • End and beginning. Memoirs 1939–1963. iPa, Vaihingen / Enz 2001, ISBN 3933486289
  • Between ice age and thaw. Diplomacy in an era of upheaval. Memories. wjs, Berlin 2005, ISBN 9783937989051

literature

Web links

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  • The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who, Burke's Peerage Limited, 1985, p. 622
  • Who's Who in the World, 1978-1979, p. 965

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice ( memento from October 24, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) in the Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung , accessed on October 23, 2014
  2. ^ "Betrayed and sold" Berndt v. Staden: The memoirs of a Baltic nobleman , Das Ostpreußenblatt, Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen eV / March 24, 2001
  3. ↑ Jasper von Altenbockum : Berndt von Staden died . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of October 23, 2014, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Wendelgard von Staden Night over the Valley , Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 1996
  5. ^ "Honor: Berndt von Staden" , Der Spiegel , 15/1979
  6. ^ The Jit Trainor Award ( Memento of May 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), Georgetown University , accessed October 22, 2014
  7. ↑ Lucius D. Clay Medal , VDAC, accessed on October 22, 2014
  8. ^ Entry in the Estonian Order Database, accessed on October 23, 2014
  9. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 51 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Rolf Friedemann Pauls Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United States
1973–1979 		Peter Hermes
personal data
SURNAME Staden, Berndt from
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock
DATE OF DEATH 17th October 2014
Place of death Ludwigsburg