Hans-Jürgen Micheel

Hans-Jürgen Micheel (born November 23, 1936 in Stargard ) is a former diplomat of the GDR who was ambassador and permanent delegate to UNESCO between 1987 and 1990 .

Life

Hans-Jürgen Micheel, the son of a car mechanic and a tailor, attended elementary school and high school and joined the Free German Youth (FDJ) in 1952 . After graduating from high school, in 1956 he began to study at the German Academy for Political Science and Law " Walter Ulbricht " (DASR) in Potsdam , which he continued at the Moscow State Institute for International Relations (SMIMO). After completing his studies as a graduate political scientist, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MfAA) as an employee in 1960 and was a speaker there and in diplomatic missions abroad,Attaché , senior consultant and cultural attaché . In 1968 he received his doctorate as Dr. rer. pole. at the DASR. He then was Second Secretary and First Secretary at the Embassy in Guinea .

Micheel became a member of the International Organizations Department of the MfAA in 1972 and between 1975 and 1978 he was Deputy Head of the Representation at the Conference of the Disarmament Committee in Geneva . After he was Counselor at the Permanent Mission to the United Nations Office in Geneva from 1976 to 1978 , he graduated from the District Party School (BPS) of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) in Potsdam between 1978 and 1979 . He then became a member of the MfAA's Northern Europe department in 1979, first head of section in 1985 and then deputy head of the UNESCO department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1986 . Most recently, in 1987, he replaced Ferdinand Thun as ambassador and permanent delegate to UNESCO and remained in this post until 1990.