Konrad Seitz

Konrad Seitz (born January 18, 1934 in Munich ) is a German diplomat and author .

education and profession

After graduating from high school, Konrad Seitz studied classical philology , German , history and philosophy at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Ettal . 1956 teaching qualification in Munich and 1958 doctorate as Dr. phil. at the Philipps University of Marburg with a thesis on the development of style in the Annals of Tacitus . 1956–1965 assistant professor at the Universities of Marburg and Munich. In 1965 he joined the Foreign Office and - while training as an attaché (1965–1968) - studied in 1966/67 at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (Tufts – Harvard) in Medford (Massachusetts) and obtained an MA .

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

• 1968–1972: Embassy in Delhi
• 1972–1975: Permanent Mission to the United Nations
• 1975–1987: Speechwriter for Federal Foreign Minister Genscher and, since 1980, Head of the Political Planning Staff of the Foreign Office in Bonn
• 1987–1990: German Ambassador to India
• 1990–1992: again head of planning at the Foreign Office in Bonn
• 1992–1995: German Ambassador to Italy
• 1995–1999: German Ambassador to China

Baden-Württemberg

1990–1998: Head, together with Berthold Leibinger , the Future Commission 2000 and the Innovation Advisory Board of the State of Baden-Württemberg

Book publications

• The Japanese-American challenge. Germany's high-tech industries are struggling to survive. Verlag Bonn Aktuell, Munich et al. 1990, ISBN 3-87959-390-6 .
  The book advocated state funding for the information technology industry and pharmaceutical biotechnology and sparked a controversial debate.
• together with Peter Glotz and Rita Süssmuth : The haphazard elites. Are the Germans missing out on the future? Edition Ferenczy bei Bruckmann, Munich 1992, ISBN 3-7654-2701-2 .
• Europe. Una Colonia Tecnologica? Edizioni di Comunità, Milan 1995, ISBN 88-245-0489-2 .
• Peter Frieß, Andreas Fickers (eds.): Norbert Blüm and Konrad Seitz talk about Germany as an industrial location and about individual working hours in the future (= TechnikDialog , issue 5), Deutsches Museum , Bonn 1995, OCLC 312759899 ( ISBN 3-924183- 94-5 was used twice).
• Race into the 21st century. The future of Europe between America and Asia. Siedler, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-88680-656-1 .
• China. A world power is returning. Siedler, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-88680-646-4 .
  Bloomberg named the book in the Top 10 list of the most important business books of the year.
  Translation into: Chinese, Vietnamese, Mongolian, Arabic, Polish
• together with John Seyller : Mughal and Deccani Painting Museum Rietberg , Zurich 2010, ISBN 3907077482

Honors

• 1990: Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1995: Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
• 1995: Merit Medal of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 1998: Large Federal Cross of Merit

Web links

• Literature by and about Konrad Seitz in the catalog of the German National Library
• Dr. Konrad Seitz Ambassador ret. D. and publicist in conversation with Prof. Albert Scharf , BR-Online, broadcast on April 26, 2005 (pdf; 41 kB)
• Biography of Konrad Seitz
• Pahari paintings from the Eva and Konrad Seitz collection. Part two. (Pahari painting from the Eva and Konrad Seitz collection, 2nd part) , Francesca Galloway Gallery, London, 2017

predecessor	Office	successor
Friedrich Ruth	Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Rome / Italy 1992–1994	Dieter Kastrup