Jürgen Trumpf

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Jürgen Trumpf (born July 8, 1931 in Düsseldorf ) is a German diplomat and classical philologist .

Life

Jürgen Trumpf was born on July 8, 1931 in Düsseldorf. Both parents were elementary school teachers. After graduating from the Städtisches Neusprachliches Gymnasium an der Aue in Wuppertal-Elberfeld, he studied Classical and Semitic Philology at the University of Cologne from 1951 to 1956 . His academic teachers were Günther Jachmann , Josef Kroll , Werner Caskel and Reinhold Merkelbach . Studies abroad led Trumpf to Innsbruck, where he especially heard the ancient historian Franz Hampl , and for the academic year 1954/1955 as a DAAD scholar at the University of Athens . There he concentrated on classical and Byzantine archeology as well as the modern Greek language, literature and history. In November 1956 he did his doctorate with Reinhold Merkelbach in Cologne with the subject of studies of Greek poetry . Trumpf then worked for Merkelbach as part of a project on Byzantine versions of the Greek Alexander novel, which was funded by the German Research Foundation. He spent one summer at the German Archaeological Institute in Athens when the excavations in Kerameikos were resumed in 1956 under the direction of Dieter Ohly .

When he entered the 13th attaché course in April 1958, Trumpf's diplomatic career began. As part of his preparatory service, he was assigned to the German Embassy in Cairo for one year in 1959. In 1961 he passed the examination for the higher foreign service. From 1962–1967 he was legation secretary at the German Embassy in London, from 1967–1970 he was consul at the German Consulate General in Rotterdam. In 1970 he returned to the Foreign Office and took on tasks in the policy department for the European Communities . In 1975 he became head of this department. In 1979 he was transferred as envoy to the Permanent Mission of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Communities in Brussels. In 1984 he returned to Bonn as head of the development policy sub-department. At the same time he became an advisor to State Secretary Jürgen Ruhfus in his capacity as representative of the Federal Chancellor in the ad hoc committee for institutional issues. The report of the so-called Dooge Committee became the basis for the Single European Act of 1986. From 1985 to 1989 Trumpf headed the “European Communities” subdivision in the Foreign Office.

From 1989-1993 he was ambassador and permanent representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the European Communities in Brussels. Together with Horst Köhler, he was a representative of the Federal Government at the Intergovernmental Conference on the Maastricht Treaty on the European Union. From 1993 to 1994 he was State Secretary of the Foreign Office, responsible for European policy, as well as foreign trade and foreign cultural policy. In 1994, by a Council decision, Trumpf was appointed Secretary General of the Council of the European Union for five years . In 1999 he was also the first to take over the post of High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, newly created by the Amsterdam Treaty . In October 1999, Javier Solana was appointed as his successor for both offices.

From 2002 to 2003 Trumpf advised the Greek government on the preparation and implementation of the Greek Presidency of the European Union in the first half of 2003. From 2005 to 2014 he was a member of the board of directors of the International Center for Black Sea Studies, based in Athens .

From 1999 to 2012 Trumpf was President of the Institute for European Politics , of which he is an honorary member. Since 2005 he has also been a member of the board of the Academic Art Museum Bonn eV

Since 1959 he has been married to the archaeologist Maria Trumpf-Lyritzaki, who was born in Heraklion on Crete and comes from the family of the liberal Greek politician Nikolaos Krasadakis (1899–1971). You have two children.

Awards (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Studies in Greek Poetry . Dissertation . Cologne 1958.
  • Anonymi Byzantini Vita Alexandri regis Macedonum. Primum edidit Juergen Trumpf . Stuttgart 1974.
  • The sources of the Greek novel of Alexander . Second edition. edit by Reinhold Merkelbach and Jürgen Trumpf. Munich 1977.
  • From the single market to the political union . Center for European Business Law at the University of Bonn. Lectures and reports No. 21, Bonn 1992.

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personal data
SURNAME Trump, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf