Claus Vollers

Claus Vollers (born June 22, 1935 in Neustrelitz ) is a former German diplomat who was ambassador to Laos , Vietnam , Albania and South Korea , among others .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1954, Vollers began studying law and economics at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , which he completed in 1959 with the state examination. He then attended courses at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna between 1960 and 1961 .

After he entered the Foreign Service , and found after completion of the career examination for the higher service use in the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn as well as several foreign missions .

During his training he was on 23 November 1965, the University of Freiburg Dr. jur. PhD . His dissertation was entitled The liability of the master for the servant outside commercial operations in the USA .

Between 1967 and 1970 he was an advisor at the Permanent Mission to NATO in Paris and then in Brussels . This was followed by a position as permanent representative of the Consul General in Karachi , before he was a consultant in the NATO department of the Foreign Office from 1972 to 1975. In 1975 he became the first ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Laos and held this office until his replacement by Günter Wasserberg in 1977. After a subsequent assignment at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City , he succeeded Reinhard Holubek as ambassador in 1981 Vietnam and remained there until it was replaced by Geert-Hinrich Ahrens in 1984.

After being employed in the Foreign Office from 1984 to 1991 as an expert on disarmament issues in the United Nations Department, he followed Friedrich Kroneck as Ambassador to Albania in 1991 .

Recently he received after 1995 as successor to Jürgen Kleiner its accreditation as ambassador in South Korea . During this time he also had to deal with the tense relations between South Korea and North Korea and the role of the Federal Republic of Germany as a member state of the European Union . He held this post until his age-related retirement in 2000. He was then followed by Hubertus von Morr , who was previously the Foreign Office's crisis officer in the rank of ambassador.

After his retirement, Vollers became NATO's political representative in Macedonia for some time in October 2001, succeeding Hansjörg Eiff .

He was also involved in the German-Korean Society, among others. There he was a member of the board until June 8, 2006.

Honors

• 1977: Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 50 Years of German-Laotian Relations ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 1.5 MB). In: Aktuell Thailand, 3/2008, p. 3 f.
2. ↑ Hubert Thielke: International Disarmament and the Politics of the Two German States , 2006
3. ↑ Hardly with each other, rarely against each other, mostly next to each other. On the politics of the two German states in the United Nations ( Memento from June 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), dgvn.de, Berlin 2007 (PDF; 7.3 MB).
4. ↑ Werner Bartels: The beginnings of the German Embassy Tirana. (No longer available online.) Federal Foreign Office , archived from the original on March 22, 2011 ; accessed on May 3, 2013 (PDF file, 9.65 kB). 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.  
5. ↑ EU To Send Envoy To NK For Aid Talks . In: Chosun Ilbo from January 14, 1999
6. ↑ German Policy toward DPRK (NAPSNet Daily Report, January 2000)
7. ^ "Fox" instead of "harvest" in Macedonia ( memento from February 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ). In: Netzeitung of October 4, 2001
8. ↑ Implementation in practice called for - New EU envoy: NATO welcomes agreement on amnesty offer in Macedonia . In: Rheinische Post of October 12, 2001 (online version)
9. ^ General assembly of the German-Korean Society eV in Bonn (homepage of the DKG)