Günther Johannes Altenburg

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Johannes Günther Oskar Felix Altenburg (born March 21, 1940 in Berlin ; † July 2, 2017 in Hamburg ) was a German diplomat . During his tenure, he put his work focus on multilateral security policy .

Life

Günther Altenburg passed his first state examination in law at the University of Bonn, where he also received his doctorate. He also studied French at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland and public administration at the French Grande École École Nationale d'Administration (ENA) in Strasbourg, France.

After joining the Foreign Service in 1972, he became head of the economic department of the German Embassy in La Paz, Bolivia. This was followed by assignments in the press department of the Foreign Office (1976-1980), as permanent representative of the ambassador in Beirut (1980-1983), as deputy head of the Department for Disarmament and Arms Control (1983-1984) and in the department for the conference Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE), 1984–1988.

He then worked as Deputy Head of the Delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany to the CSCE in Vienna and Helsinki (1988–1992). After he headed a department in the UN Department of the Foreign Office from 1992 to 1997, he worked for the Federal Intelligence Service in Munich in 1997 . Until 1998 he was head of the department for analyzes and evaluations of intelligence information. He then became head of the United Nations and Global Issues Department at the Foreign Office in Berlin (1998–2001).

Grave of Günther Altenburg in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

From 2001 to 2005 he was Associate Secretary General for Political Affairs in Brussels, Belgium. In this role he played a key role in establishing the NATO-Russia Council as negotiator .

He was married and had four children.

Günther Altenburg died after a long illness at the beginning of July 2017 at the age of 77 in Hamburg. The funeral service and burial took place on July 11, 2017 at the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend . Grave site: II-W-13-161 / 162.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Berliner Zeitung of July 10, 2017, p. 12
  2. ↑ Who is who in the NATO
  3. ↑ From arms control to the security forum
  4. ↑ CSCE
  5. ↑ Germans in responsibility
  6. ↑ The family's obituary in the FAZ on July 5, 2017. Accessed on November 29, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Altenburg, Günther Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Altenburg, Günther; Altenburg, Johannes Günther Oskar Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2017
Place of death Hamburg