Harald Braun (diplomat)

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Harald Braun during a visit to the IAEA , 2014

Harald Braun (born September 11, 1952 in Sindelfingen ) is a German diplomat , from 2014 to 2017 as Ambassador of the Permanent Representatives of Germany to the United Nations in New York , since 2016 also Vice-President of the UN General Assembly. Before that, he had been State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office since July 2011 .

Life

After graduating from the Goldberg-Gymnasium in Sindelfingen in 1971 and a two-year military service, Braun completed a commercial apprenticeship at IBM Germany from 1973 . From 1975 he then studied economics , history and literature in Tübingen and New York. In 1978 he received a Masters in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and received his PhD there in 1980.

In 1981 he joined the Foreign Service. From 1983 to 1985 he was an economic and cultural advisor at the German embassy in Beirut ; from 1985 to 1988 press officer at the German embassy in London ; from 1988 to 1991 in the personnel department of the Foreign Office in Bonn . In 1991/92 he was the German ambassador to Burundi . From 1992 Braun was the office manager of the former Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher. From 1994 he headed the Parliament and Cabinet Department in the Foreign Office. From 1997 to 2002 Braun was envoy chief of the political department of the German embassy in Washington . In 2002/03 he was ambassador for b. V. international coordinator of the police structure agreed at the Petersberg Conference in Afghanistan and at the same time held the German chairmanship of the UN Mine Action Group at the United Nations in New York. From 2003, Braun headed the Foreign and Security Policy group in the Federal Chancellery .

In 2005 he switched to the private sector for three years and headed the central department “Corporate Policy and External Relations” at Siemens AG in Munich as chief lobbyist (“Corporate Senior Vice President for Global Government Affairs”) .

From March 2008 he was honorary professor for global studies and diplomacy at his alma mater Stony Brook.

In 2008 he returned to the civil service as envoy and permanent representative at the German embassy in Paris . In 2010/2011, as Ministerial Director, he was head of the central department in the Federal Foreign Office. In July 2011 he was appointed State Secretary of the Federal Foreign Office. From this position, Braun moved to New York as ambassador in February 2014, where he was in charge of the permanent representation of Germany to the United Nations until July 2017. From September 2016 he also held the office of Vice President of the 71st General Assembly of the United Nations in 2016/2017.

Harald Braun is an honorary citizen of Washington, DC, Grand Officier of the French Legion of Honor , holder of the Grand Cross of the Italian Order of Merit, the British Order of Victoria and other international awards.

He has been married to the literary scholar Ute Braun since 1980. The couple has three children and three grandchildren.

Own publications

(Selection)

  • "Diplomacy in Times of Global Change", Globality Studies Journal, no. 13, Stony Brook 2009
  • "Challenges of German Foreign Policy in the 21st Century", Business & Diplomacy , Berlin 2012
  • "The Crisis of the Catholic Church Arrives at an Inopportune Time," Chrismon No. 2, February 2013
  • "Against the Grain: United Nations", IP - Internationale Politik, Issue No. 5/2015
  • "Reforms on the East River", IP - Internationale Politik, Issue No. 2/2016
  • “Entre la Spree et l'East River: l'Allemagne au sein des Nations unies” in “L'Allemagne sur la scène internationale” pp. 77–98, Paris 2017
  • "Berlin - New York: A few observations on Germany in the United Nations", KFG Working Paper Series No. 11, Berlin, February 2018

literature

Individual evidence

  1. Report on the appointment of ambassadors , spiegel.de, January 15, 2014, accessed on January 20, 2014.
  2. manager-magazin.de
  3. HARALD BRAUN ( Memento from July 19, 2011 in the Internet Archive )