Dieter Kastrup

Dieter Kastrup (born March 11, 1937 in Bielefeld ) is a German lawyer and diplomat . From 1990 to 1995 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office and in 1990 head of the delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany in the negotiations on the two-plus-four treaty between the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany as well as France , the United States , the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union , the completion of which made German unity possible.

Life

Dieter Kastrup (right) at a meeting at the Foreign Office in Bonn after the two-plus-four talks were agreed

Dieter Kastrup studied from 1956 in Cologne Jura . He was in the foreign service with stations a. a. at the embassies in Rio de Janeiro , Tehran , Washington, DC and Rome . From 1980 onwards, Kastrup headed the department of the Foreign Office in Bonn , which was responsible for “ Berlin and Germany as a whole ”.

The political development in Germany from November 1989 with the demand for reunification as soon as possible made Kastrup the decisive man in the background. From the end of January 1991 to 1995 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office. As Ministerial Director at the side of Federal Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher and head of the German delegation, Kastrup prepared the two-plus-four talks between the foreign ministers of the two German states and the four victorious powers of the Second World War on the external aspects of establishing German unity in front. Kastrup was also significantly involved in drafting the German-Soviet partnership agreement.

From 1994 to 1998 Kastrup was the German ambassador to Italy . From 1998 to 2001 Kastrup was permanent representative to the United Nations in New York. From 2000 to 2008 he was chairman of the board of trustees of the “Remembrance, Responsibility and Future” foundation. From November 2001 to September 2002 he was the Federal Chancellor's foreign and security policy advisor . After reaching the age limit, Kastrup retired at the end of September 2002.

engagement

• On April 11, 2008, Kastrup was elected to the board of UNICEF Germany for four years .
• He is a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations .
• From 2000 to 2008 Kastrup was appointed chairman of the board of trustees of the "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" foundation in Berlin.

Awards

• 1990: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1995: Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1998: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic

Web links

• Gerhard Spörl: Before the two-plus-four negotiations: Carrying the burden with pleasure. In: zeit.de . April 6, 1990, accessed May 2, 2020 . 
• Chancellery: Mützelburg becomes Kastrup's successor. In: Spiegel Online . October 17, 2002, accessed May 2, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Professional: Jürgen Chrobog . In: Der Spiegel . No. 8 , 1991 ( online - Feb. 18, 1991 ).
2. ↑ BND: That stuff . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 1996 ( online - Apr. 8, 1996 ).
3. ^ DGVN Presidium
4. ↑ Forced laborers: The compensation can begin. In: Spiegel Online . August 31, 2000, accessed May 2, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Board of Trustees of the Foundation "Remembrance, Responsibility and Future" ( Memento from August 29, 2017 in the Internet Archive )

predecessor	Office	successor
Konrad Seitz	German ambassador to Italy 1994–1998	Fritjof from Nordenskjöld
Tono Eitel	Permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations 1998–2001	Hanns Heinrich Schumacher