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Hans Otto Bräutigam (right) with Erich Honecker

Hans Otto Bräutigam (born February 6, 1931 in Völklingen ) is a former German diplomat and non-party politician .

Life

Visit of Erich Honecker in the Federal Republic of Germany 1987 , lunch with the Federal President on September 7, 1987.
V. l. to r .: Bangemann , Honecker, v. Weizsäcker , noon , bird , bridegroom, Genscher .
Visit of Honecker to the Federal Republic of Germany, press conference on September 8, 1987.
V. l. To the right: Friedhelm Ost (Head of the Press and Information Office ), Wolfgang Schäuble (Head of the Federal Chancellery), Hans-Otto Bräutigam.

After graduating from high school in Meschede in 1950, Bräutigam studied law and political science at the universities of Munich and Bonn from 1951 to 1954 , at the Sorbonne in Paris from 1956 to 1958 and at the Harvard Law School in Cambridge (Massachusetts) . In 1960 he received his PhD from the University of Bonn. jur. PhD . In 1961 he passed the second state examination in Stuttgart .

From 1962 he worked in the Foreign Office . As a legation secretary , he worked from 1964 to 1966 in the office of then Foreign Minister Gerhard Schröder , then for three years in London , where he observed British overseas policy. From April 1969 he was part of the Department for Germany and Berlin Politics in the Foreign Ministry under Günther van Well . He later worked in the Federal Chancellery and from 1982 to 1989 was State Secretary and Head of the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the GDR in East Berlin .

After a short time as the German UN Ambassador in New York City (1989/1990) Manfred Stolpe brought him to Brandenburg as Minister for Justice, Federal and European Affairs . He held this office until 1999. With an interruption of one year, he was chairman or on the board of the Remembrance, Responsibility and Future Foundation from 2000 to 2006 .

In 2001, the groom was awarded the Great Cross of Merit with Star of the Federal Republic of Germany.

He is the nephew of the diplomat and lawyer Otto Bräutigam (1895–1992).

Bridegroom lives in Berlin and is married.

Honorary positions

See also

Fonts (selection)

  • My Brandenburg years. An off-duty minister recalls. Verlag für Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-945256-24-4 . (Political Science Review )
  • Permanent Representation. My years in East Berlin . Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-455-50099-8 . (Political Science Review )
  • Berlin - Brandenburg. A country? . Nicolai, Berlin 1996, ISBN 3-87584-594-3 .
  • The neutralization. With special consideration of the membership of a neutralized state in a system of collective security . Dissertation, University of Bonn 1960.

Web links

Commons : Hans Otto Bräutigam  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Movie

We're not a hotel after all - Refuge Embassy Director: Inge Albrecht Length 60 min German Film and Television Academy / WDR First broadcast in 1997 - including a conversation with the refugees and politicians involved, Hans Otto Bräutigam / Ludwig A. Rehlinger and the GDR negotiator Wolfgang Vogel .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.politische-bildung-brandenburg.de/node/6716
  2. ↑ br-online.de Interview with Hans-Otto Bräutigam accessed on February 25, 2009 (PDF; 41 kB)
  3. ↑ http://www.dgvn.de/ueber-uns/organisation/praesidium/
  4. ↑ We're not a hotel. Escape embassy. Retrieved November 9, 2019 .
predecessor Office successor
Alexander Count York von Wartenburg Permanent representative of Germany to the United Nations
1989–1990 		Detlev Graf zu Rantzau
personal data
SURNAME Groom, Hans Otto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groom, Hans-Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German politician and diplomat without a party
DATE OF BIRTH February 6, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Völklingen