Dietrich from Kyaw

Dietrich von Kyaw (born June 9, 1934 in Stettin ) is a German diplomat and was ambassador and permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union in Brussels.

Life

Dietrich von Kyaw studied law and political science at the universities of Bonn, Chicago and Liège. In 1953 he became a member of the Corps Borussia Bonn . After two state exams and the doctorate to Dr. iur. he joined the Foreign Service in 1964 . Between 1964 and 1977 von Kyaw worked, among other things, at the Consulate General in Los Angeles , worked at the German embassies in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo and in Bangui in the Central African Republic, as well as at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York City . In 1984 he moved to the German Embassy in Washington, DC as a business envoy. From 1993 to 1999, he headed the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Union . In 1999 he retired from active diplomatic service.

From 2000 to 2005 he was a member of the supervisory board of Agfa-Gevaert AG . Since 2000 he has worked as a commentator and advisor on questions of European and international politics. From 2000 to 2003 he advised the Lithuanian negotiator on EU accession negotiations. Dietrich von Kyaw carries the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Great Federal Cross of Merit ). He works on a voluntary basis in the Presidium of the European Union Germany and the German-Hungarian Society and as a guest lecturer at seminars at the European Academy in Berlin.

Participation in public debates

In 2002 von Kyaw criticized the then Federal Chancellor Gerhard Schröder for Germany's lack of compliance with the Euro Stability Pact. Schröder reacted "opportunistically and short-sightedly" to the "blue letter" of the EU Commission, which was well-founded as an early warning, on new German debt, both in terms of European and stability policy. Von Kyaw feared a weakening of the role of the Commission and a distortion and "undermining" of the Stability Pact.

In 2005, von Kyaw joined the debate about how to deal with the portraits of former diplomats with a Nazi past in the ancestral galleries of the Federal Foreign Office. At the time, he called on the German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer to be careful when dealing with his own history. The result of the debate - contrary to what was intended - prompted a detailed study, whereupon in 2010 all portraits showing ambassadors from the period before 1951 were removed from the relevant galleries.

In April 2010, Dietrich von Kyaw was a guest on Peter Brinkmann's show “Location Berlin” on tv.berlin to present his book In Search of Germany: Experiences and Encounters between a German Diplomat and a European . During the almost thirty-minute broadcast, von Kyaw described himself as a “modern German patriot”, but also as a European who understood that significant problems can no longer be solved nationally today. According to von Kyaw, there is “no alternative to Europe”. Rather, we have to join forces at European level in order to achieve effective solutions. He also commented on the observations he made in the book about the process of German reunification and the development of the European monetary union .

Works

• Dietrich von Kyaw: In Search of Germany: Experiences and Encounters of a German Diplomat and a European . BWV - Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-8305-1634-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Dietrich von Kyaw in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry in prabook.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 16/1113
2. ^ Dietrich von Kyaw . In: Der Spiegel . No. 10 , 2002 ( online ).
3. ↑ Ralf Beste, Christoph Schult: End of the cover-up . In: Der Spiegel . No. 15 , 2005 ( online ).
4. ↑ The Federal Foreign Office has pictures removed from ancestral galleries . In: Spiegel Online
5. ^ Location Berlin with Dietrich von Kyaw. Peter Brinkmann in conversation with the former ambassador Dr. Dietrich from Kyaw. (No longer available online.) Tv.berlin, April 28, 2010, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 11, 2013 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.