Klaus-Jürgen Citron

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Dr. KJ Citron (1991)

Klaus-Jürgen Citron (born May 16, 1929 in Berlin ; † December 11, 2007 ) was a German diplomat who was ambassador to the Netherlands between 1990 and 1994 .

Life

Citron, son of Fritz Citron and his wife Charlotte, born Furbach, completed after high school to study at the Faculty of Arts, University of Kiel and placed there in 1954 his doctorate Dr. phil. with the dissertation The Significance of Exile for Victor Hugo's Political Poetry . After working between 1955 and 1956 as a lecturer for the German language at the École centrale des arts et manufactures in Châtenay-Malabry near Paris , he was assistant professor for German-language literature at the University of Bologna from 1956 to 1959 .

Citron then entered the foreign service and, after completing the career test for the higher service, was initially employed at the headquarters of the Foreign Office in Bonn and then between 1963 and 1966 as a consul at the Consulate General in San Francisco . After serving as Counselor for Culture at the Embassy in India from 1966 to 1968 , he served as Permanent Representative of the Ambassador to Malaysia from 1968 to 1972 and, after his return, from 1972 to 1974 as Deputy Head of the Department for the USA in the Foreign Office. Between 1974 and 1978 he was head of the political department of the permanent mission to NATO in Brussels and from 1978 to 1982 he was head of the department for nuclear weapons and global disarmament control, before he was deputy federal government representative for questions of disarmament and arms control between 1982 and 1984 .

From 1984 to 1988 Citron was head of the German delegation at the Conference on Security and Confidence-Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe (KVAE), which took place in Stockholm as part of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) and from November 1986 as 3rd CSCE follow-up conference in Vienna was continued. After he was head of the Department for Political Policy Planning at the German Foreign Office between 1988 and 1990, he replaced Otto von der Gablentz as Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in the Netherlands in 1990 . He remained in this position until he retired in 1994, whereupon Wilhelm Haas succeeded him there. During this time he was also briefly special envoy for the European Stability Pact in 1994. After retiring from the foreign service, he was involved from 1994 to 2003 as a member of the board of the German Atlantic Society .

His marriage to Karin Bille Hansen on June 17, 1961 resulted in a daughter and a son.

publication

  • The significance of exile for Victor Hugo's political poetry , dissertation University of Kiel, 1954

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personal data
SURNAME Citron, Klaus-Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 2007