Joachim Broudré-Gröger

Joachim Rüdiger Broudré-Gröger (born April 28, 1944 ) is a former German diplomat .

Life

After training as an industrial and IT businessman at IBM, he studied business administration at the Free University of Berlin and at the University of Madrid , from which he graduated with a degree in business administration. This was followed by training at the German Development Institute in Berlin.

After joining the Foreign Service in 1971, he was employed at the Consulate General in Hong Kong (as Vice Consul ).

From March 1973 to May 1974 he worked in the office of the then Federal Chancellor Willy Brandt (as personal assistant and speechwriter). From June 1974 to November 1976 he was personal assistant to the Federal Minister for Economic Cooperation Egon Bahr . When this became federal manager of the SPD , Broudré-Gröger followed him and was its office manager from November 1976 to March 1981. The Romanian defector Ion Mihai Pacepa accused Broudré-Gröger of espionage for the Eastern Bloc in 1978 . Investigators from the Federal Prosecutor's Office found Broudré-Gröger in possession of two Minox cameras and a document tripod. However, the suspicions were not sufficient for a charge. The proceedings were discontinued because suspicions had been cleared.

In April 1981, Boudré-Gröger returned to the diplomatic service and became head of the economic department at the German Embassy in Mexico . Broudré-Gröger then became Deputy Head of the Department for the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and Space Development at the German Foreign Office in September 1984 , before becoming Head of the Department for International Energy Policy there in May 1985 . From July 1986 to October 1990 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam . Then Broudré-Gröger was head of the Department for International Telecommunications Policy and Information Technology at the Federal Foreign Office until April 1993 .

In May 1993 he returned to the federal office of the SPD, where he became deputy federal manager, foreign policy advisor and technical campaign manager for the party executive committee of the SPD.

From August to September 1995, he was briefly consul general in Bombay , before he then head of the German delegation to the observation mission of the European Communities in the former Yugoslavia ( European Community Monitor Mission to Former Yugoslavia ) was. From March 1996 to August 1998 Broudré-Gröger was the German ambassador to Algeria . Subsequently, he was head of the Foreign Trade Promotion and Development sub-department for a few months before he became Ministerial Director and Head of the Department for Economic Affairs and Sustainable Development (Department 4) of the Federal Foreign Office in February 1999. From July 2001 to August 2004 Broudré-Gröger was the German ambassador to the People's Republic of China . His successor there was Volker Stanzel . From 2004 to August 2006 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to Indonesia . He was then ambassador to Lisbon until his retirement in 2009 . There he received the Order of Merit in 2009 . From 1992 to November 2002 he was chairman of the German-Vietnamese Society. V.

Web links

• 30 years of diplomatic relations between China and Germany
• Report on activities as chairman of the German-Vietnamese Society

Individual evidence

1. ↑ agents hunting in Bonn: All smoke . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1978 ( online ). Very poor . In: Der Spiegel . No.
    39 , 1978 ( online ).

predecessor	Office	successor
Geert-Hinrich Ahrens	German ambassador in Hanoi 1986–1990	Jürgen Elias
Friedrich Reiche	German ambassador in Algiers 1996–1998	Steffen Rudolf
Hans-Christian Ueberschaer	German ambassador in Beijing 2001-2004	Volker Stanzel
Gerhard Fulda	German ambassador in Jakarta 2004–2006	Paul von Maltzahn
Hans-Bodo Bertram	German ambassador in Lisbon 2006–2009	Helmut Elfenkämper