Günther van Well

Günther van Well 1973 in the USA

Günther van Well (born October 15, 1922 in Osterath ; † August 14, 1993 in Bonn ) was a German diplomat and State Secretary in the Foreign Office (1977 to 1981).

As ministerial director and ministerial director in the Foreign Office, he was involved in drawing up rapprochement with the GDR and the four-power agreement in the early 1970s . As acting State Secretary, he was also appointed by the then Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher as his personal representative for disaster prevention.

Following his work as State Secretary, van Well was Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the United Nations . He then served as the German ambassador to Washington, DC from 1984 to 1987

As ambassador a. D., as a participant in the “Bergedorf Round Table” of the Körber Foundation, was involved, along with many other personalities, in reaching an understanding on international problems and issues, and as Executive Vice President of the German Society for Foreign Policy eV, Bonn.

Publications

• The development of the common Middle East policy of the nine , in: Europa-Archiv , 4/1976;
• Participation of Berlin in international events - an urgent item on the East-West agenda , in: Europa-Archiv, 20/1976;
• Belgrade 1977. The CSCE follow-up meeting and its significance for the détente process , in: Europa-Archiv, 18/1977;
• Political Aspects of Structural Change in the World Economy , in: Europa-Archiv, 3/1979;
• Change in Europe and the two German states , in: Europa-Archiv; 19/1989, pp. 569-576;
• In search of the shape of Europe. Festschrift for Wolfgang Wagner on his 65th birthday on August 23, 1990 (co-editor Jochen Thies );
• Germany and the UN , in: Rüdiger Wolfrum (Hrsg.), Handbuch United Nations, Munich 1991², pp. 71–77;
• The Foreign Service in a Time of Change , in: Europa-Archiv, 10/1992, pp. 269–278 and 14/1992, pp. 391–396;
• The United Nations as Peacemaker: Possibilities and Limits of the World Organization , in: The United Nations and Austria, 1/1993, 7-11.

literature

• Helga Schalkhäuser: Your Highnesses, Excellencies, Celebrities. Encounters with famous personalities all over the world. Bastei Lübbe, 1987

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brochure from the Foreign Office
2. ↑ Bergedorf Round Table of the Koerber Foundation ( Memento of the original from July 16, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

predecessor	Office	successor
Rüdiger Freiherr von Wechmar	Permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations 1981–1984	Hans Werner Lautenschlager
Peter Hermes	German Ambassador to the United States 1984–1987	Jürgen Ruhfus