Klaus-Peter Klaiber

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Klaus-Peter Klaiber (born June 21, 1940 in Stuttgart ) is a former German diplomat who was EU Special Representative for Afghanistan between 2001 and 2002 and then Ambassador to Australia from 2002 to 2005 .

Life

Klaiber, son of the first heads of the Presidential Office and later ambassador Manfred Klaiber , began after graduating from high school in 1959 to study law at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University of Bonn and the University of Tübingen , where he graduated in 1964 with the First State Exam. In 1967 he received his doctorate as Dr. jur. at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz with the dissertation The repeal of administrative acts in French law . At the same time, he completed postgraduate studies in economics and history at the Geneva University Institute for International Studies in 1967 .

In 1968 Klaiber began the preparatory service for the higher foreign service and after its graduation worked at the Foreign Office in Bonn between 1970 and 1971 and then from 1971 to 1973 as the third secretary of the embassy in Zaire . After he was deputy head of the training and further education center of the Foreign Office in Bonn from 1973 to 1977 , between 1977 and 1980 he was employed as first secretary in the political department of the embassy in the USA and then from 1980 to 1982 permanent representative of the ambassador in Kenya .

After his return to Germany, Klaiber became Deputy Head of the Department for European Political Cooperation in the Foreign Office in 1982 and was then Deputy Head of the Ministerial Office of Federal Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher between 1985 and 1988 . In 1988 he became envoy and head of the political department of the embassy in the United Kingdom and then from 1991 to 1994 head of the security policy subdivision in the Federal Foreign Office, before he was head of the planning staff of the Federal Foreign Office in Bonn between 1994 and 1997.

Then in 1997 Klaiber became Assistant Secretary General and Director of the Political Department of NATO's International Staff in Brussels . He then became the European Union's first special envoy for Afghanistan in 2001 and in this function was supposed to support the establishment of the agreed transitional government and the establishment of democratic institutions. He held this position until he was replaced by Francesc Vendrell in 2002.

Most recently, Klaiber was appointed ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Canberra in 2002 as the successor to Horst Bächmann and remained in this position until his retirement in 2005. At the same time, he was representative of the Federal Republic of Germany in Nauru , Papua New Guinea , the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu accredited . His successor as ambassador was Martin Lutz in July 2005 .

Klaiber is a member of the Stuttgart Academic Society Tübingen .

He sits on the Board of Directors of the Global Panel Foundation - Worldwide.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Two ambassadors from Germany: Klaus-Peter Klaiber and Harald Kujat . In: Die Zeit of November 21, 2001
  2. ^ EU: German diplomat becomes Afghanistan representative . In: Der Spiegel from December 10, 2001
  3. ↑ Board Members . In: Global Panel Foundation . ( globalpanel.org [accessed June 24, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Klaiber, Klaus-Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart