Klaus Blech

Klaus Blech (born August 14, 1928 in Stuttgart ; full name: Klaus Wolfgang Günther Blech ) is a former German political official and diplomat . From 1984 to 1989 he was head of the office of the Federal President .

Life and work

Klaus Blech was born in Stuttgart as the son of a painter and art dealer who came from Lower Silesia and grew up in Heilbronn . After graduating from high school, he studied law at the universities of Tübingen , Hamburg , Paris and, with the support of a Fulbright scholarship, at Chicago . In 1952 he passed the first state examination in law , in 1958 the second. In the same year his doctorate he in Tübingen with a dissertation about the foreign authority of the United States to Dr. jur. and joined the Foreign Service . At first he worked there as an attaché in the office of Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano . From 1959 to 1961 he worked in Vienna and from 1962 to 1964 in Djakarta / Indonesia . From 1965 to 1968 he served as personal advisor to the then State Secretary in the Foreign Office and later Federal President Karl Carstens and his successor in the Foreign Office, Klaus Schütz . In 1968 he went to Tokyo as counselor for three years . He later became an ambassador there.

From 1984 to 1989 he was head of the office of the Federal President . From 1989 to 1991 he worked as ambassador in Moscow and exchanged positions with his predecessor in Moscow, Andreas Meyer-Landrut .

Blech speaks Japanese, Russian and Chinese, among others.

Honors

• 1962: Great decoration of honor for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1978: Grand Officer of the Portuguese Order of Christ
• 1979: Large gold medal with the star for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1982: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1986: Large silver medal on ribbon for services to the Republic of Austria
• 1987: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Fonts

• The treatment of international agreements in the constitutional law of the United States: Studies on external violence in the USA , dissertation University of Tübingen 1958

Web links

• Literature by and about Klaus Blech in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
2. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
3. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)