Guido Brunner

Guido Brunner 1977 at the FDP party congress

Guido Brunner (born May 27, 1930 in Madrid ; † December 2, 1997 ibid) was a German diplomat and politician ( FDP ).

Life

Brunner grew up in Madrid and attended grammar school there and after the end of the war in Munich , where he passed his Abitur examination and began studying law, which he completed in Germany with the first state examination and doctorate, in Spain with a licentiate.

He entered the diplomatic service in 1955 and worked from 1960 to 1968 in the office of the German observer at the United Nations. From 1970 to 1972 he was head of the press department in the Foreign Office and from September 1972 to 1974 head of the planning team. He headed the delegation of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1973/74 to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE).

He then served as Commissioner for Science, Education and Technology in the EC Commission until 1981 . After Dietrich Stobbe's resignation , Hans-Jochen Vogel appointed him to the Berlin Senate as Senator for Economics and Mayor in 1981 , which was replaced by the Weizsäcker Senate after only five months in office due to new elections .

He was a member of the Bundestag from 1980 to 1981. He was elected to parliament via the state list of Baden-Württemberg . He then took over as the successor to Lothar Lahn as the German ambassador to Spain until his retirement in 1992.

Brunner was married to Christa Speidel, the daughter of the general and former Commander in Chief of the Allied Land Forces in Central Europe at NATO Hans Speidel .

literature

• Werner Breunig, Andreas Herbst (ed.): Biographical handbook of the Berlin parliamentarians 1963–1995 and city councilors 1990/1991 (= series of publications of the Berlin State Archives. Volume 19). Landesarchiv Berlin, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-9803303-5-0 , p. 108.

Web links

Commons : Guido Brunner  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Biography at the Senate of Berlin
• Guido Brunner in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
• Entry In: Gerhard Köbler : Who was who in German law (online version)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Died: Guido Brunner . In: Der Spiegel . No. 50 , 1997 ( online ).
2. ↑ Guido Brunner - Federal Republic of Germany. Central Intelligence Agency , March 20, 1973, archived from the original July 30, 2012 ; Retrieved April 20, 2010 .