Helmuth Schroeder (diplomat)

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Helmuth HR Schroeder is a former German diplomat who was ambassador to Zambia and Albania , among other things .

Life

Schroeder joined the Foreign Service and, after completing his career test for the higher service, found jobs at the headquarters of the Foreign Office and at various missions abroad .

In 1997 he became ambassador to Zambia and remained in this post until 2001. The beginning of his term of office was marked by political turmoil after the 1996 elections and the attempted coup by parts of the army under the leadership of Stephen Lungu on October 28, 1997, as well as the arrest of the longtime President of Zambia, Kenneth Kaunda , on December 25, 1997. End of March In 1998, he declared in this capacity that there could be more bilateral talks after Zambia eased the state of emergency.

He then received his accreditation as ambassador to Albania in 2001 as the successor to Peter Kiewitt . He was there until he was replaced by Hans-Peter Annen in 2003. On June 27, 2007, he gave a lecture on the subject of Albania on the way to Europe at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences .

On November 10, 2011, Schroeder was part of a group of 32 former ambassadors and consuls general who, in an open letter to Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Federal Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle , demanded a resounding “yes” to the question of Palestine's admission to the United Nations .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Beatrix Waldenhof: The role of NGOs as part of civil society in Zambia's democratic transition and consolidation process (PDF; 12.2 MB), dissertation , Ruhr-Universität Bochum , Bochum 2003, pp. 192, 194, 337.
  2. ↑ LIFTING OF STATE OF EMERGENCY GIVES NEW HOPE (Zambia News Online - (38), 3/25/98)
  3. ↑ Directory of the representations of the Federal Republic of Germany abroad (as of November 13, 2002)
  4. ↑ Albania on the way to Europe.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) (Homepage of the FH Kärnten)@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.fh-kaernten.at
  5. ^ Five theses on the Middle East conflict - a contribution to the discussion by former German ambassadors (November 2009). ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 19 kB)
  6. ↑ "We ask you for a YES to Palestine in the United Nations"
personal data
SURNAME Schroeder, Helmuth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schroeder, Helmuth HR
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century