Bernhard Brasack

Bernhard Brasack (2009)

Bernhard Brasack (born March 19, 1949 in Kiel ) is a former German diplomat . From 2005 to 2009 he was permanent representative at the disarmament conference in Geneva and ambassador for global disarmament issues. In 2008 he was temporarily convened by the UN Secretary-General in a global UN expert body ( GGE ) for the project of an international treaty on arms trade (" Treaty on Arms Trade " or ATT). Since July 2012 he has been Consul General in Barcelona .

Life

After graduating from the Heinrich-Hertz-Gymnasium in Bonn-Bad Godesberg in 1970, Brasack studied law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn and passed the first state examination in 1975 . After completing his legal traineeship at the Cologne Higher Regional Court , he passed his second state examination in 1978 in Düsseldorf. On May 1, 1978, he began his training in Bonn at the diplomatic school of the Foreign Office in Bonn, which ended in March 1980 with the examination for the higher career of the Foreign Service . During this training, Bernhard Brasack dealt with issues relating to the negotiations on the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea ( UNCLOS ).

From April 1980 to April 1981, Bernhard Brasack worked in the legal department of the Foreign Office and then between April 1981 and July 1984 he was consul for trade matters at the Consulate General in New York City . Subsequently, from August 1984 to May 1987 he was employed as head of the consular department and advisor for human rights issues at the embassy in Yugoslavia and was then advisor for issues of nuclear non-proliferation (Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty ), the comprehensive cessation of nuclear weapon tests ( test ban agreement ) and the Geneva Disarmament Conference in the Disarmament Department of the Foreign Office.

Subsequently, Brasack was permanent representative of the Ambassador in Iceland from July 1990 to November 1992 and between November 1992 and November 1997 head of the work unit for export control of goods with multiple uses ("dual-use goods") and for strategic questions in the Foreign Office Export control ( CoCom based in Paris ) and re-establishment of the successor regime Wassenaar Arrangement ( Wassenaar Agreement ) as well as export control in the chemical sector (" Australian Group ", also based in Paris).

Thereupon Brasack acted from November 1997 to July 2001 as head of the permanent representation at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ( OPCW / OPCW ) in The Hague and was chairman of the OPCW Executive Council there for one year between May 2000 and May 2001 corresponds to the "Board of Governors" at the IAEA in Vienna . From August 2001 to June 2002 he was head of a division for arms control in the field of conventional armaments ( CFE ) ( CFE Treaty ), "Open Skies" ( Treaty on Open Skies ), the Vienna Document and UNSCOM - / UNMOVIC at the Foreign Office -Inspections of Iraq ( United Nations Special Commission / Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission of the United Nations ).

In August 2002, Brasack became head of the Department for the Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons ( Chemical Weapons Convention ) in the Federal Foreign Office, including questions relating to the fight against the threat of bioterrorism, and subsequently served as Head of the Permanent Mission to the Geneva Disarmament Conference from August 2005 to July 2009 as an ambassador for global disarmament issues. In this capacity he was also head of the German delegation in the 1st Committee of the annual General Assembly of the United Nations , at conferences within the framework of the Ottawa Convention and the Convention on the Prohibition or Restriction of the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons , and at the UNDC ( UN Conference on Disarmament ). In addition, Brasack was also involved in the negotiations in Geneva on the outlawing of cluster munitions ( Convention on Cluster Munitions ).

After he was head of the Consulate General in Wroclaw (Poland) between August 2009 and July 2011 with the districts from Katowice via Opole, Wroclaw to Posen ( Greater Poland Voivodeship , Silesian Voivodeship , Lubusz Voivodeship , Silesia ), he succeeded Christine in July 2012 Glasses , who became Ambassador to Luxembourg , Head of the Consulate General in Barcelona. As such, he was responsible for the administrative districts of Andorra , Catalonia , Aragon , Valencian Community , Alicante Province , Murcia , Albacete Province and the Balearic Islands .

Bernhard Brasack is married and has four children.

He retired on June 30, 2014. Rainer Eberle is his successor as Consul General.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae on the homepage of the Consulate General in Barcelona (accessed on September 9, 2012)