Gunter Pleuger
Gunter Pleuger (born March 25, 1941 in Wismar ) is a German diplomat . From November 2002 to July 2006 he was the Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations in New York and was in office in February 2003 when Germany was chairing the UN Security Council . From 1999 to 2002 he was State Secretary in the Foreign Office , before that Political Director in the Foreign Office and Deputy to the then Federal Minister for Foreign Affairs Joschka Fischer . From October 2008 to October 2014 he was President of the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt (Oder).
Life
Gunter Pleuger fled with his parents and three other siblings in 1945 from the Mecklenburg Hanseatic city of Wismar from the Red Army to the west, spent ten years of his life in the Sauerland city of Kierspe and attended the Zeppelin high school in the neighboring city of Lüdenscheid .
Gunter Pleuger studied law and political science at the ENA in Paris in Cologne and Bonn . In Cologne he became a member of the Corps Hansea Cologne and in 1966 Dr. jur. PhD . In 1969 he joined the Foreign Service and was assigned to the German UN mission in New York the following year. After various positions, including as head of the human rights department in the Foreign Office and from 1999 to 2002 as State Secretary, in 2002 he took over the management of the German representation at the UN. Here he represented Germany until 2006, among other things, in the World Security Council , of which Germany was a non-permanent member from 2003 to 2004.
In autumn 2000 he was the German negotiator at the EU conference in Nice . On April 21, 2005, Pleuger was questioned in the investigative committee of the German Bundestag about the visa affair as the State Secretary previously responsible for issuing visas. The survey was broadcast live on German television for hours.
Pleuger became known to a wider public at the time of the dispute over the Iraq conflict , as he represented the position of Germany, which at that time was chairing the UN Security Council, in numerous statements in the Security Council. Most recently, he tried along with the other G4 countries a reform of the United Nations and in the process for a permanent seat in the Security Council of Germany.
Since 2006 he has been teaching multilateral negotiation tactics and international politics at the University of Potsdam for two years.
On July 9, 2008, Gunter Pleuger was elected President of the University by the Senate of the European University Viadrina. On October 1, 2008, he succeeded Gesine Schwan .
On January 20, 2017, he was appointed as a mediator for the longstanding conflict over the collective wage agreement for pilots at Deutsche Lufthansa AG.
He is a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations .
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| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hanns Heinrich Schumacher |
Permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations 2002–2006 |
Thomas Matussek |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pleuger, Gunter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wismar |