Karl Walter Lewalter

Karl Walter Lewalter (born June 2, 1938 in Wuppertal ) is a former German diplomat who was ambassador to Bulgaria between 1987 and 1991 , Indonesia from 1991 to 1994 and head of the permanent representation at the United Nations Office from 1998 to 2003 in Geneva (UNOG) was.

Life

After graduating from high school , Lewalter began studying law in 1958 at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , the University of Lausanne , the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms University of Bonn and the University of Luxembourg . After taking the state exams , he entered the foreign service and in the following years found employment at the diplomatic missions in New York City , Guinea and Spain .

In the mid-1970s, as a lecturer , he was deputy head of the office of Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and on July 1, 1976, he was appointed lecturer first class and head of the ministerial office in the Foreign Office .

Between 1987 and 1991 he was ambassador to Bulgaria . He was then ambassador to Indonesia from 1991 to 1994 and then returned to the headquarters of the Foreign Office as ministerial director and representative for Asia , while the previous chief of protocol Heinrich Seemann became the new ambassador to Indonesia. He was then Chief Inspector of the Foreign Service in the Foreign Office between 1996 and 1998.

He was last in 1998 as a successor of the retirement came Wilhelm Höynck Ambassador and Head of the Permanent Mission of the United Nations Office at Geneva . He held this position until he retired in 2003 and was replaced by Michael Steiner .

Since 2009 he has been a member of the Presidium of the German Society for the United Nations .

From 2003 to 2009 he was chairman of the old gentlemen's association of the Germania-Lausanne student association ( Société d'Étudiants Germania Lausanne ).

Web links

• Short biography (Who is next who in German law, p. 258)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ilse Dorothee Pautsch, Matthias Peter, Michael Ploetz, Tim Geiger: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany 1976. Volume 2, Oldenbourg, Munich 2007, ISBN 3-486-58040-X , pp. 1755-1756 ( digitized version )
2. ^ Chronicle on the website of the German Embassy Sofia ( Memento from April 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ History of German-Bulgarian relations (Homepage of the Bulgarian Embassy) ( Memento from October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
4. ↑ Activity report 1993-1994 (German Society for Asian Studies)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) (PDF; 48 kB)
5. ↑ Diplomatic roundabout: Kohl's office manager moves to Lisbon. A message of thanks. In: Berliner Zeitung. July 8, 1994
6. ↑ List of German UN ambassadors ( Memento from February 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
7. ↑ DGVN Presidium ( Memento of the original from September 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.