Klaus Meyer (diplomat)

Klaus Meyer (born April 10, 1928 in Cologne ; † January 29, 2014 in Bad Neuenahr ) was a German diplomat and Director General of the Commission of the European Union.

Life

From 1948 to 1955 Klaus Meyer studied philology , philosophy , sociology and economics at the University of Göttingen and the University of Paris . In 1952 he became a doctor of philosophy doctorate and received a diploma in 1955 the national economy. Klaus Meyer was married and had four children (Bernhard, Ruth, Peter († 1991), Thomas).

Career history

In 1955 he joined the Foreign Service and worked for the Foreign Service in Bonn and at the German Embassy in Paris until 1959 . From 1959 to 1967 he was Deputy Head of Cabinet of the President of the Commission of the then European Economic Community (EEC), Walter Hallstein . The head of cabinet in the EEC commission Hallstein I was from 1961 to 1963 Berndt von Staden. In the EEC Commission Hallstein II from 1963 to 1967 K.-H. Narjes head of cabinet. From 1967 to 1969 he worked in Bonn as director in the Chancellery of Federal Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger . From 1969 to 1977 he was Deputy Secretary General of the Commission of the then European Community (EC) in Brussels, and from 1977 to 1982 its Director General for Development (DG VIII). From 1982 to 1985 he was Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague and from 1985 to 1992 Permanent Representative of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris. From 1991 to 1997 he taught political economy at the economics faculty of the University of Leipzig . In 1993 he retired and lived in Bonn, from mid-2013 until his death in Bad Neuenahr.

Klaus Meyer was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class. In 2007 he was awarded the Gold Medal of Honor by the German Caritas Association for his voluntary work after retiring.

Web links

• The files and an interview by Klaus Meyer are deposited in the historical archive of the EU in Florence .

Others

Klaus Meyer was the uncle of Gisela Walsken , who u. a. has been the district president of Cologne since 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Stephen Martin, Émile Noël: The Construction of Europe essays in honor of Emile Noël. ( Digitized version )

predecessor	Office	successor
Jürgen Diesel	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Prague 1982–1985	Werner Schattmann
Horst-Krafft Robert	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany to the OECD in Paris 1985–1992	Mario Matuschka from Toppolczan and Spaetgen