Herbert Limmer

Herbert Limmer (* 1930 in Berlin ) is a former German diplomat .

Life

Limmer studied economic policy and social sciences in the USA. After studying economics and social sciences and obtaining a doctorate as a Dr. oec. he joined the Foreign Service in 1957 . His professional career took him to the embassies in Mexico City (1961–1963), Rio de Janeiro (1963–1966) and Tel Aviv (1966–1970). From 1970 to 1973 he worked at the embassy in Buenos Aires as the head of the economic department. In 1973 he took over the management of the organization department in the Foreign Office under the Schmidt government as a lecturer in the first class of the Legation Council . As such, he weighed up whether Paul von Maltzahn should be sent back to his post in Beirut during the Lebanese civil war , and agreed with Legation Councilor Metternich on press releases about the exchange of twelve military ataché staffs with the Soviet Union as a confidence-building measure for the CSCE .

From 1979 Limmer was commissioner for Latin American policy, since 1983 he headed a department in the press and information office of the federal government. Under the Kohl government , CDU member Limmer headed the foreign department of the Federal Press Office as ministerial director . In this office he took part in a conversation between Helmut Schmidt and the Peruvian Prime Minister Pedro Richter Prada in Lima on April 10, 1979 , of which he kept minutes.

In 1987 he succeeded Hans-Werner Graf Finck von Finckenstein as ambassador to Argentina , where he became the first ambassador for all of Germany in 1990, as the GDR, represented by Walter Neumann in Argentina, no longer existed.

The decision to send Limmer to Brasília came from Helmut Kohl . There he was received on September 15, 1993 by President Itamar Franco to present his credentials as ambassador to Brazil . He held this position until his retirement in 1995.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Escuela de Defensa Nacional, Revista de la Escuela de Defensa Nacional , ed. 38-43, 1988, p. 83
2. ↑ Die Bundesregierung, Bulletin 137-87 of December 2, 1987
3. ↑ On the exchange of military attachés between the Federal Republic and the USSR cf. Doc 217., note 33. On September 29, 1976 the lecturer, Legation Councilor Metternich, forwarded to the press department a press release for the following day that had been coordinated with Ministerialdirigent Andreas Meyer-Landrut and the lecturer, Legation Councilor I. Class Limmer: “On October 1, 1976 military attachés will take of the Federal Republic of Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics started their work in Moscow and Bonn. Brigadier General August-Wilhelm Vogel is the head of the German military attaché staff. In response to inquiries, it must be reported that the exchange of twelve-member military ataché staffs has been agreed: First, five-member sub-staffs, each comprising two officers (military attachés) and three other members, are deployed. The delay in the dispatch of the staff is due to technical reasons. ”Cf. Referat 213, Vol. 112750
4. ↑ DER SPIEGEL of July 7, 1986, permanent annoyance in the Federal Press Office , pdf
5. ↑ DER SPIEGEL of April 19, 1993, Critique of Kinkel , pdf
6. ^ Federal Government Bulletin, 1993, p. 955

predecessor	Office	successor
Hans-Werner Count Finck von Finckenstein	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Buenos Aires 1987–1993	Wiegand Pabsch
Theodor Wallau	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Brasilia 1993–1995	Claus-Jürgen Duisberg