Immo Stabreit

Immo Friedrich Helmut Stabreit (born January 24, 1933 in Rathenow an der Havel) is a former German ambassador .

Life

Immo Stabreit's parents were Johanna Maria Groeger and Kurt Stabreit. From 1951 to 1953 he studied history , French and Spanish at Princeton University , then until 1957 law at the Free University of Berlin and from 1957 to 1961 he studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . In 1959 he was a trainee lawyer in the economics department of the European Coal and Steel Community in Luxembourg . In 1962 Immo Stabreit married Barbara Philippi. They have a daughter and two sons. Stabreit was a fully qualified lawyer when he joined the foreign service in 1962 .

From 1962 to 1963 he was accredited at the embassy in Moscow . In 1964 he was at the Ruprecht-Karls-University of Heidelberg with the revision of multilateral international treaties by a limited number of the Contracting Parties to the Doctor of Law doctorate . From 1964 to 1966 he was employed as a first-class Legation Councilor in the Foreign Office in Bonn . From 1966 to 1973 he was first class counselor in the Soviet Union department of the Foreign Office, in 1973 he was the head of department's deputy. From 1974 to 1975 he was accredited at the Consulate General in Boston and a Fellow at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University . From 1975 to 1978 he headed the Consumer Producer Relations department of the International Energy Agency in Paris . From 1979 to 1982, Stabreit headed Division 200, European Unification and European Political Cooperation (EPC) in the Foreign Office as a first class representative. From 1983 to 1987 he was employed in the Federal Chancellery in Bonn.

In the period between the departure of Carl Lahusen and accreditation of staff riding in the government of PW Botha in Pretoria Counselor Fritz Vermins (inauguration in Pretoria in September 1984) was charge d'affaires . At the end of 1987 Fritz Ziefer reminded the entrepreneurs of their "duty to change the untenable economic and political realities in South Africa" at the German-South African Chamber of Commerce in Johannesburg . As an ambassador, Stabreit distanced himself from Ziefer and found diplomatic language rules for the apartheid regime . Stabreit seconded Pieter Willem Botha when Norbert Blüm asked about the imprisoned Nelson Mandela . During his tenure as ambassador to Washington , the Berlin Document Center became the property of German federal authorities, which meant that direct access was extinguished under the Freedom of Information Act . From 1998 to 2002 he was managing director of the German Society for Foreign Policy . After the 2002 retirement was moved, he was a consultant .

Fonts

• The revision of multilateral international treaties by a limited number of contracting parties. 1964.
• The EPZ as a factor in international politics. Origin, functionality, perspective. In: P. Coulmas (ed.): Elements of change in the western world. 1979, pp. 287-298.
• The results of the KIWZ in the energy sector (Conference on International Economic Cooperation, KIWZ)
• Yugoslav Breakup. Don't blame Germany. In: The Washington Post , June 29, 1993, p. A9.

Web link

• Entry in prabook.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ambassador, Without Distance . In: Der Spiegel . No. 30 , 1988 ( online ).
2. ↑ Norbert Blüm was allowed to show goodwill in South Africa, but not make politics . In: Der Spiegel . No. 27 , 1989 ( online ).
3. ^ The Middle East: Abstracts and index. Volume 11, Library Information and Research Service, 1995
4. ^ The International Who's Who. 2004 ( digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Carl Lahusen Chargé d'Affaires Counselor Fritz Ziefer	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Pretoria 1987–1992	Hans-Christian Ueberschaer
Jürgen Ruhfus	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Washington 1992–1995	Jürgen Chrobog
Jürgen Sudhoff	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Paris 1995–1998	Peter Hartmann