Peter Kiewitt

Peter Kiewitt (born March 28, 1939 in Boulogne-Billancourt , France ) is a former German diplomat who was ambassador to Lebanon , Libya , Albania and Paraguay , among others .

Life

Peter Kiewitt joined the Foreign Service in 1965 and, after completing his career test for the higher civil service, found employment at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and at various missions abroad .

In the 1970s he worked for five years, among other things, for Hans-Jürgen Wischnewski , who was first Minister of State in the Foreign Office and then in the Federal Chancellery (including the liberation of the "Landshut" ). There he was first councilor of the legation and then, since April 29, 1977, lecturer of the legation.

On November 24, 1977, Wischnewski sent him to Vienna for a secret meeting with the Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky , who, in addition to Peter Kiewitt, had two Palestinian politicians as guests: Issam Sartawi and Ali Hassan Salameh , the masterminds behind the Munich attack on the Israeli athletes .

From 1990 to 1993 he worked as ambassador to Lebanon and announced, among other things, the release from prison of the Lebanese Abbas Hamadi, who was serving a thirteen-year prison sentence in Germany for terrorist offenses. At the end of the civil war it was possible to free the German hostages.

Then Kiewitt was at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and from 1995 to 1999 Ambassador to Libya. During this time, efforts were made to keep Libya ready to assist in the judicial investigation of the bomb attack of April 5, 1986 in the La Belle discotheque in Berlin-Friedenau .

In 1999 he succeeded Hannspeter Disdorn as ambassador to Albania and held this position until he was replaced by Helmuth Schroeder in 2001.

Subsequently, Kiewitt moved to Paraguay as ambassador , where he succeeded Josef Rusnak . He held the post of ambassador to Asunción until he retired in 2004.

After retiring from active diplomatic service, Kiewitt became a member of the board of the German-Paraguayan Society (PROPARA). In September 2005 he was a participant in a congress organized by Renovabis on the topic of New Wealth - New Poverty. Social upheavals in Central and Eastern Europe .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany , 1977, p. 1851
2. ^ Matthias Dahlke: The Wischnewski protocol. On the cooperation between Western European governments and transnational terrorists 1977. In: Vierteljahrshefte für Zeitgeschichte. The central forum for contemporary history research. Volume 57, Issue 2, Oldenbourg 2009, pp. 201f, ISSN  0042-5702 . doi: 10.1524 / vfzg.2009.0041 (PDF; 280 kB).
3. ↑ Reading sample: 9. The Anti-Racist International, Willy Brandt and the SI (pp. 46–47)
4. ↑ Politics: Abbas Hamadi is to be released in August . In: FAZ from May 3, 1993
5. ↑ LA BELLE: Libya gives in . In: Focus from April 11, 1998 (online version)
6. ↑ Historical overview of the German Embassy in Paraguay ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2012 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. 
7. ↑ Executive Board, Presidium, Board of Trustees and honorary members of PROPARA  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ Renovabis Congress September 2005 ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 1.6 MB)