Günter Held

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Günter Held (born June 20, 1935 in Bernburg (Saale) ) is a former German ambassador .

Life

Günter Held studied law and economics . Held joined the foreign service in 1959 and studied the Arabic language from 1959 to 1964 . From 1964 to 1972 he was accredited at the embassies in Cairo, Dschedda in Saudi Arabia and Freetown in Sierra Leone . From 1976 to 1979 Held was employed at the Foreign Office in Bonn . On January 16, 1975, Eduard Dreher instructed Günter Held to ask the government of Salim Rubai Ali as soon as possible to take Verena Becker , Gabriele Kröcher-Tiedemann , Ingrid Siepmann , Rolf Heissler and Rolf Pohle into temporary extradition custody and to do so Request in the form of notes with the personal details of the prisoners as well as information on the judgments against them: "A formal request for the extradition of the above-mentioned German citizens will be sent as soon as possible".

With his office in Antananarivo , he was also accredited by the government of the Comoros and Mauritius .

predecessor	Office	successor
Heinrich Friedrich Landau	Ambassador of the German Federal Government in Sana'a 1972–1976	Kurt Messer
Rolf Enders	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Kampala 1979–1983	Hans-Alard von Rohr
	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Abu Dhabi / United Arab Emirates 1987–1990	Uwe Schramm (born December 31, 1941)
1964–1967: Willi Georg Steffen	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Antananarivo, Madagascar 1991–1994	1995: Hubert Beemelmans

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Yemen. Beds tattered . In: Der Spiegel . No. 12 , 1975 ( online ).
2. ^ Günter Held . In: Der Spiegel . No. 45 , 1986 ( online ).
3. ^ Yemen Report. Volumes 29–32, German-Yemenite Society, Horst. Kopp, Freiburg, 1998