Günter Burghardt

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Günter Burghardt (born April 27, 1941 in Kroßwitz ) is a German lawyer and former EU ambassador to the United States .

Life

Burghardt was born in today's Krosnievice in Poland . His ancestors were Palatine emigrants to the former Habsburg province of Galicia. His parents, born south of Lemberg (Lviv), were resettled in the Warthegau in the winter of 1939/40 as part of the Hitler-Stalin Pact . Burghardt studied law and economics in Germany, France and Great Britain. He passed both state exams in Hamburg with the grade "good" and received his doctorate in 1969 with Hans Peter Ipsen "summa cum laude" at the University of Hamburg with a thesis in the field of European Community law. At the University of Strasbourg in 1963 he was "Lauréat de la Faculté de Droit". He completed post-graduate studies at the City of London College before starting his career in the legal department of the European Commission in 1970 . At the end of 1972 he moved to the DG for Foreign Relations under Vice-Presidents Christopher Soames and Wilhelm Haferkamp as country officer for relations with the United States, Canada and Australia. In 1978 he became assistant to the director general for foreign relations Roy Denman, who later became the EU ambassador in Washington DC.

From 1981 to 1984 Burghardt was Deputy Chief of Staff to EU Commissioner Karl-Heinz Narjes, responsible for the internal market, industrial innovation, consumer protection and nuclear safety. From 1985 to 1993 he was Deputy Head of Cabinet and close advisor to Commission President Jacques Delors , where he was involved in many of Delors' successes, including the 1992 program for completing the internal market, the 1987 Single Act and the Maastricht Treaty the European Union with the introduction of the common currency euro , the enlargement policy of the European Union and the strengthening of the transatlantic partnership with the United States. From 1993 to 2000, Burghardt was Director General for External Relations in the European Commission under Commissioners Hans van den Broek (1993–1999) and Chris Patten (1999–2000). From 2000 to 2004 he was the European Union Ambassador to the United States.

Since retiring in February 2005, Burghardt has been Senior Counsel at the law firm Mayer Brown Europe-Brussels LLP, specializing in government relations. He is a member of various think tanks and advisory boards. Since December 2010 he has also been Vice President of the "Club of Rome EU Chapter". Until 2011 he taught as visiting professor at the Europa-Kolleg in Brugge and at the law faculty of the University of Ghent .

Awards

Burghardt has been awarded the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the Bavarian European Medal .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV with Mayer Brown
  2. ↑ Inge Govaere, Erwan Lannon, Peter van Elsuwege, Stanislas Adam: The European Union in the World: Essays in Honor of Marc Maresceau, November 7, 2013
  3. ↑ General information on the website of the "College of Europe"
  4. ↑ a b General information on the "Club of Rome" website
  5. ^ Website of the European Embassy in the United States
personal data
SURNAME Burghardt, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German lawyer and ambassador
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kroßwitz